Forman Christian College is a Private not-for-profit university

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in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It was founded in 1864 and is administered by the

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. The university follows an American-style curriculum. Founded in 1864 by

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missionary

Charles William Forman Charles William Forman (1821–1894) was an American Presbyterian minister, missionary and the founder of Forman Christian College, a private university in then Lahore, colonial India (now in Pakistan). Early life Charles William Forman was ...

, the college was initially named Mission College, and changed its name in 1894 to Forman Christian College, in honor of its founder. Forman served as an associated college of the

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until 1947 when it became affiliated with the University of Punjab. In 2004, the government granted it university charter hence providing it with degree awarding authority. The college was initially based in the Rang Mahal in the Walled City of Lahore, which was leased by Charles with the support from foreign missions. In 1889, it was shifted to Napier Road and was inaugurated by Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne. Again, in 1940, the college was moved to its present campus on the banks of the

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. The college remained financially autonomous until 1960 when the Pakistani government began annual grants for the college for its nursing program. The college was nationalized in 1972 and remained nationalized until 2003 when control was returned to the

. Forman is also known for its noted alumni and staff, including Nobel laureate

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, former Indian Prime Minister

I. K. Gujral Inder Kumar Gujral (4 December 1919 – 30 November 2012) was an Indian diplomat, politician and freedom activist who served as the 12th prime minister of India from April 1997 to March 1998. Born in Punjab, he was influenced by nationalist ...

, former Pakistani Presidents

Farooq Leghari Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari ( ur, ; 29 May 194020 October 2010), was a Pakistani politician who served as the eighth president of Pakistan from 14 November 1993 until resigning on 2 December 1997. He is the first Baloch to have been elected a ...

and

Pervez Musharraf General Pervez Musharraf ( ur, , Parvez Muśharraf; born 11 August 1943) is a former Pakistani politician and four-star general of the Pakistan Army who became the tenth president of Pakistan after the successful military takeover of the ...

, diplomat Jamsheed Marker, journalist Kuldip Nayar, and activist

Eqbal Ahmad Eqbal Ahmad (1933 – 11 May 1999) was a Pakistani political scientist, writer and academic known for his anti-war activism, his support for resistance movements globally and academic contributions to the study of Near East. Born in Bihar, ...

. As of 2020, Forman was home to 8,435 students including 3,173 Intermediate students, 4,712 Baccalaureate students and 550 graduate students. It also has 220 full-time faculty members (more than 100 of whom have PhDs) as well as an alumni population of well over 21,000. Christians make up nearly 15% of the student body while the college runs a $1 million fund to finance scholarships for its students. As of 2016, the college has been ranked ninth highest in Pakistan among medium-sized universities and is the only institution in Pakistan which is a member of the

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. Jonathan S. Addleton was inaugurated as the new Rector on 31 October 2020, following the retirement of his predecessor James A. Tebbe, who was awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz by the President of Pakistan; Tebbe was in turn was preceded by Peter H. Armacost who had previously served as president of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida.

History

Forman Christian College was founded in

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by Presbyterian Christian missionary

as Rang Mahal School, a Christian mission school. Forman arrived in Calcutta in what was then

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in 1847 and, two years later, settled in

, British India (now in Pakistan). The school added a college department in 1865 which later became a university in 2005 known as Forman Christian College University. It started offering an American-style world-class education in Pakistan. FCCU started new postgraduate courses along with MBA in 2007. Native to Lahore,

Surendra Kumar Datta Surendra Kumar Datta (1878–1942), also spelt as Surendra Kumar Dutta or S. K. Dutta, was the president of the All India Conference of Indian Christians and thus the Indian people, Indian Christians, Christian delegate to the Round Table Confer ...

was a professor of history and biology from 1909 to 1914 and served as the principal of Forman Christian College from 1932 to 1942, later becoming the president of the All India Conference of Indian Christians and representing the Christian community of colonial India in the

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. One of Forman's faculty members, Prof.

, conducted the bulk of his research on

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at FCC University for which he received the

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in 1927. One of Professor Compton's former students Professor

Piara Singh Gill Piara Singh Gill (28October 1911 – 23March 2002) was an Indian nuclear physicist and a pioneer in cosmic ray nuclear physics.''Up Against Odds: Autobiography of an Indian Scientist''. (South Asia Books, 1993. ) He was the first Director of C ...

taught at the college as lecturer in Physics between 1940 and 1947. Two alumni, Sir S. S. Bhatnagar and Bashir Ahmad, laid the foundation for scientific and industrial research in both parts of

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by establishing ICSIR and PCSIR respectively. The first two Science graduates of FC College University were also the first Science graduates of the

University of the Punjab The University of the Punjab (Urdu, pnb, ), also referred to as Punjab University, is a public, research, coeducational higher education institution located in Lahore, Pakistan. Punjab University is the oldest public university in Pakistan. ...

(1900–1902). In this way FCCU was the first to establish, in this part of the sub-continent, Departments of

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(1898), Greek,

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and

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Languages (1895–96), Industrial Chemistry (1917), Geography (1924), setting up the

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Laboratory, introducing the tutorial system (1908), appointing Deans of the Faculties introducing

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al system (1902), and establishing an

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(1896). Besides this FCCU also started Software engineering, CS, and IT in 2006.

Achievements

Achievements of other Formanites, as the graduates are called, include: * Its Principal J. C. R. Ewing was knighted for his services to humanity and education. He served as Vice Chancellor of the Punjab University for seven years. * Formanite—alumnus and teacher of the college—Muhammad Yusuf Hashmi became the first Indian Principal of Madrasa 'Aliya in Calcutta, was recognized as an educator of distinction in

and was titled

Khan Bahadur Khan Bahadur – a compound of khan ('leader') and bahadur ('brave') – was a formal title of respect and honor, which was conferred exclusively on Muslim and other non-Hindu natives of British India. It was one degree higher than the title of K ...

by the British Crown. Later he was recognized in Pakistan also for his contributions to education and the Pakistan Movement. * Principal C. H. Rice and a faculty member, Khairat M. Ibne Rasa, became Vice Chancellors of the

Punjab University Punjab University may refer to: India * Punjab Agricultural University, a state agricultural university in Ludhiana, Punjab * I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, a State university in Jalandhar, Punjab * Panjab University, a public collegia ...

. * Justice Sir Mian Abdur Rashid, who was a Formanite and also the first Chief Justice of Pakistan, administered the oath of office to Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah as the first Governor General. * The English poet and scholar

Alamgir Hashmi Alamgir Hashmi (Urdu: عالمگیر ہاشمی), also known as Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi (born 15 November 1951), is an English poet of Pakistani origin. Considered avant-garde, his early and later works were published to considerable critical ...

served as lecturer in English at Forman Christian College (early 1970s) and as faculty advisor to ''Folio''.

Accreditation

The university has designed its four-year bachelor's degree program in accordance with the standards for accreditation in the U.S., and is seeking accreditation through the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE).

Commemorative stamp

Forman Christian College has received a commemorative

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in the celebration of completing the successful 150 years. Issued by

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, The stamp highlights a Sinclair Hall which was built to mark the centenary of FC College and was named after a devoted Principal Dr EJ Sinclair who served FCC for many years as a faculty member and Principal.

International Linkage

The Council of Independent Colleges - USA Association of American International Colleges and Universities

Notable alumni

Politicians

, president of the All India Conference of Indian Christians who represented the

Indian Christian Christianity is India's third-largest religion with about 27.8 million adherents, making up 2.3 percent of the population as of the 2011 census. The written records of the Saint Thomas Christians state that Christianity was introduced to th ...

community in the

Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi ( ur, ; August 1888 27 August 1963), also known by the honorary title Allama Mashriqi (), was a British Indian, and later, Pakistani mathematician, logician, political theorist, Islamic scholar and the founder of th ...

, mathematician, logician, political theorist, Islamic scholar and founder of the

Khaksar movement The Khaksar movement ( ur, ) was a social movement based in Lahore, Punjab, British India, established by Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi in 1931, with the aim of freeing India from the rule of the British Empire. The Khaksars opposed the partiti ...

* Yusuf Raza Gilani, the 16th

Prime Minister of Pakistan The prime minister of Pakistan ( ur, , romanized: Wazīr ē Aʿẓam , ) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Executive authority is vested in the prime minister and his chosen cabinet, despite the president of Paki ...

Shaukat Tarin Shaukat Fayyaz Ahmed Tarin ( ur, ; born 1 January 1953) is a Pakistani politician and banker who served as Finance Minister of Pakistan from 2008 to 2010 in the Gillani cabinet also and worked with the help of the Pakistan People’s Party's ...

, former Finance Minister of Pakistan *

Jahangir Tareen Jahangir Khan Tareen (Urdu: ) is a Pakistani business magnate who is the majority shareholder & CEO of JDW Group, a Conglomerate specialised in Sugar Manufacturing and has four sugar units, Biomass (Bagasse) Cogeneration which has two power ...

, Pakistani politician and businessman. * Inder Kumar Gujral, the 12th

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* Parkash Singh Badal, chief minister of Indian Punjab several times and elected again in 2012. * Muhammad Mian Soomro, former Chairman of the

Senate of Pakistan Senate of Pakistan or Aiwān-e-Bālā Pākistān ( ur, , , literally "Pakistan upper house"), is the upper legislative chamber of the bicameral legislature of Pakistan, and together with the National Assembly makes up the Parliament of Pakista ...

, former caretaker

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President of Pakistan The president of Pakistan ( ur, , translit=s̤adr-i Pākiṣṭān), officially the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is the ceremonial head of state of Pakistan and the commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Armed Forces.Malik Barkat Ali Malik Barkat Ali (1 April 1886 – 5 April 1946) was an Indian Muslim politician, lawyer and journalist. Early life and career Malik Barkat Ali was born in April 1885 in Lahore a city of Punjab, British India, to an Arain family. After educa ...

, former Punjabi Muslim League politician *

Shah Mahmood Qureshi Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Hussain Qureshi ( ur, ; born 22 June 1956) is a Pakistani politician who served as the 29th Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2022. He previously held the post from 2008 to 2011. He has been a member of the Nationa ...

Foreign Minister of Pakistan The Minister of Foreign Affairs (or simply the Foreign Minister) is the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Pakistan. The minister is responsible for overseeing the federal governmen ...

and, the Vice Chairman of

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Shujaat Hussain Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain ( pa, ; ur, ; (born 27 January 1940) is a senior Pakistani politician from a Punjabi Jat family of Gujrat who previously served as 16th prime minister of Pakistan. Hussain is the party president of the Pakistan ...

, former

and current President of PML-Q * Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, former

Chief Minister of Punjab (Pakistan) The Chief Minister of Punjab ( ur, ) is the head of government of the Pakistani province of Punjab. The chief minister leads the legislative branch of the provincial government, and is elected by the Provincial Assembly. Given that he has the ...

Rao Sikandar Iqbal Rao Sikandar Iqbal ( ur, ), c. 1943 – 29 September 2010) was the Defence Minister of Pakistan from 2002 to 2007. Biography Born in 1943, Iqbal took his primary education in Quetta, after which he joined the Forman Christian College in L ...

(1943–2010), former

Defence Minister of Pakistan The Minister of Defence (Urdu: 'وزیرِ دفاع') heads the Ministry of Defence. The minister serves in the cabinet of the Prime Minister and is required to be a member of Parliament. In the history of the country, the defence portfolio has ...

, former

Balram Jakhar Balram Jakhar (23 August 1923 – 3 February 2016) was an Indian politician, who served as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and Governor of Madhya Pradesh. He was also the longest serving Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Early life and education Jakhar ...

(1923–2016), an Indian politician, parliamentarian, and former Governor of

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. *

Rafique Rajwana Malik Muhammad Rafique Rajwana ( pa, ; ur, ; born 20 February 1949) was the 32nd Governor of Punjab, in office since 10 May 2015. He is affiliated with PML-N. He conducted landmark cases, including Mian Nawaz Sharif, Memogate Scandal, Elec ...

, Governor of

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

. *

Kulsoom Nawaz Begum Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif ( Punjabi, ur, ; 29 March 1948– 11 September 2018) was a Pakistani politician who had been the first lady of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms; from 1990 to 1993, 1997 to 1999 and then from 2013 to 2017. S ...

, wife of Mian Nawaz Sharif * Pyare Lal Kureel, Indian politician, Dalit activist and Urdu poet

Bureaucrats and diplomats

* Roedad Khan, former Secretary General Ministry of Interior. * Jamsheed Marker, United Nations Under-secretary General, Ambassador at Large of Pakistan (honorary doctorate)

Judiciary

* Justice (retired) Wajihuddin Ahmed, Former Candidate for Presidential Election against Pervaiz Musharraf, Former Supreme Court Judge * Justice Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan, Former Chief Justice Peshawar High Court, Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge * Sir Abdul Rasheed, First Chief Justice of Pakistan * Justice (retired) Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, Former Chief Justice of Pakistan

Educators and scholars

* Kauser Abdulla Malik, secretary of the National Commission on

Biotechnology Biotechnology is the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services. The term ''biotechnology'' was first used b ...

. *

, post-colonial scholar and writer * Ishtiaq Ahmed, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Stockholm University and Honorary Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore * Cecil Chaudhry, a decorated war hero, who served as the Principal of

St. Anthony's College (Lahore) , motto_translation = Knowledge with Virtue , established = , type = Private pre-school, primary, high school and college , gender = Boys , religion = Catholicism , denomination = , patron = St. Anthony of Padua , affiliations = , g ...

Mohini Maya Das Dora Mohini Maya Das (born about 1884) was an Indian educator and speaker. She was the YWCA's associate general secretary for India, Burma, and Ceylon. Early life and education Dora Mohini Maya Das was from Firozpur, born to Christian Indian paren ...

, associate national secretary of the

YWCA The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) is a nonprofit organization with a focus on empowerment, leadership, and rights of women, young women, and girls in more than 100 countries. The World office is currently based in Geneva, Swi ...

for India, Ceylon, and Burma * Bipan Chandra, eminent historian *

Anwar Nasim Anwar Nasim (born 7 December 1935)
is a

, nuclear scientist and molecular biologist *

Georg Pfeffer Georg Pfeffer (17 January 1943 — 20 May 2020) was a German anthropologist. Born in 1943 in Berlin to a German sociologist father and a British mother, he was schooled in Hamburg. In 1959, he moved to Lahore with his family, and studied at the c ...

(1943–2020), German anthropologist *

Rama Tirtha Swami Rama Tirtha ( Punjabi: ਸਵਾਮੀ ਰਾਮਤੀਰਥ, Hindi: स्वामी रामतीर्थ 22 October 1873 – 17 October 1906Verma, M.L. ''Swadhinta Sangram Ke Krantikari Sahitya Ka Itihas''. Vol 2. pp. 418–421 ...

, Indian teacher of the

Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

philosophy of

Vedanta ''Vedanta'' (; sa, वेदान्त, ), also ''Uttara Mīmāṃsā'', is one of the six (''āstika'') schools of Hindu philosophy. Literally meaning "end of the Vedas", Vedanta reflects ideas that emerged from, or were aligned with, t ...

* Khan Bahadur Muhammad Yusuf Syed-Al-Hashmi, educator, mentor, reformer, All India Muslim League and Pakistan Movement leader *

Arfa Sayeda Zehra Arfa Sayeda Zehra is a Pakistani educationist and Urdu language expert. She is current serving as the Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for Education and National Harmony Affairs. She studied first at Lahore College for Women University, ...

, Pakistani educationalist and Urdu language expert

Industry

* Chaudry Ahmed Saeed, CEO of Servis Industries * Lord Paul,

Swaraj Paul Swarāj ( sa, स्वराज, translit=Svarāja '' sva-'' "self", ''raj'' "rule") can mean generally self-governance or "self-rule". It was first used by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj to attain self rule from the Mughal Empire and the Adil Sh ...

, founder and CEO of

Caparo Caparo plc is a British company involved mainly in the steel industry, primarily in the design, manufacturing and marketing of steel and niche engineering products. Current affairs Caparo was founded by Lord Swraj Paul, in 1968. Sixteen compa ...

Group * Sir Mohammad Pervaiz Anwer, Co-founder & Chairman, United Bank Limited.

Journalism

Mushtaq Minhas Mushtaq Ahmed Minhas ( ur, مُشتاق احمد مِنہاس)(Born 12 August 1970) is a Pakistani politician who is former minister of Information, Tourism and Culture in the AJK assembly. He is a member of the 8th Legislative Assembly of AJK ...

, Provincial Minister for Information and Communication AJK Assembly, anchor of Bolta Pakistan on

Geo TV Geo Television Network is a television channel based in Pakistan. It was established in May 2002 and is owned by the Jang Media Group. The channel began its test transmission on 14 August 2002, with regular transmission beginning on 1 October 2 ...

Kuldip Nayar Kuldip Nayar (14 August 1923 – 23 August 2018) was an Indian journalist, syndicated columnist, human rights activist, author and former High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom noted for his long career as a left-wing political comme ...

, Indian author and journalist

Literature and arts

* Anwar Kamal Pasha, pioneer Pakistani film director and producer. *

Krishan Chander Krishan Chander (23 November 1914 – 8 March 1977) was an Indian Urdu and Hindi writer of short stories and novels. Some of his works have also been translated in English. He was a prolific writer, penning over 20 novels, 30 collections o ...

, short story writer Zia Fatehabadi and Chander studied together at Forman *

Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi Mehr or Mihr may refer to: Persian names * Mehr, an alternative name for Mithra, a Zoroastrian divinity * Mehr (month), the seventh month of the year and the sixteenth day of the month of the Iranian and Zoroastrian calendars * Mehr's day, or ...

, Urdu poet * Yawar Hayat Khan, senior producer/director of PTV *

Balwant Gargi Balwant Gargi (4 December 1916 – 22 April 2003) was an Indian Punjabi language dramatist, theatre director, novelist, and short story writer, and academic. Early life On 4 December 1916, in Canal House in Sehna, Barnala (Punjab), Balwant Garg ...

, Punjabi playwright and author * Harcharan Singh, Punjabi playwright and dramatist *

Shae Gill Anushae Babar Gill (Urdu, Punjabi language, Punjabi: ), popularly known as Shae Gill, is a Pakistani singer and cover-artist, mostly known for her Punjabi language, Punjabi duet song "Pasoori" with Ali Sethi. Early life Shae Gill was born an ...

, singer

Armed forces

Noel Israel Khokhar Noel Israel Khokhar is a retired Major General of the Pakistani Army. He was one of the highest-ranking Christian serving officers in the Pakistan Army. As of 2020, he is currently serving as an Ambassador of Pakistan to Ukraine Early life He ...

, General Officer Commanding 23rd DivisionDharkan Summer 2009
/ref> and Major General of Pakistan Army *

, former

Pakistan Army The Pakistan Army (, ) is the Army, land service branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The roots of its modern existence trace back to the British Indian Army that ceased to exist following the partition of India, Partition of British India, wh ...

Michael John O'Brian Air Vice-Marshal Michael John O'Brian (Urdu: مايكل او براءين; born: 5 January 1928 – 8 June 2002) was an air officer in the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) who served as the Commandant of National Defence University, Islamabad. O'Bri ...

, O'Brian was the first Pakistan Air Force officer to serve as the Commandant of the National Defence University, Islamabad.

References

External links

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List of alumni

Ewing Literary Society
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