Jaffna Hindu College ( ta, யாழ்ப்பாணம் இந்துக் கல்லூரி, translit=Yāḻppāṇam Intuk Kallūri; si, යාපනය හින්දු විද්‍යාලය, translit=Yāpanaya Hindu Vidyālaya; abbreviated as JHC) is a national school in

Jaffna Jaffna (, ) is the capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. It is the administrative headquarters of the Jaffna District located on a peninsula of the same name. With a population of 88,138 in 2012, Jaffna is Sri Lanka's 12th most ...

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. It was founded in 1886 by a group of

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 ...

people who wanted an

English language English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the is ...

alternative to the Christian missionary schools.

History

In the late 19th century all the English language schools in the area were run by Christian missionaries. In 1886, Williams Nevins Muthukumaru Sithamparapillai founded ''The Native Town High School''. The school encountered financial problems and in 1889 it was taken over by S. Nagalingam, who re-located it to Vananarponnai. The school was renamed ''Nagalingam Town High School''. In 1890, the school was handed over to the Jaffna Saiva (Samaya) Paripalana Sabhai. The school was moved to its present site and renamed ''The Hindu High School''.

Big Match

JHC play

Kokkuvil Hindu College Kokuvil Hindu College ( ta, கொக்குவில் இந்துக் கல்லூரி ''Kokkuvil Intuk Kallūri'', KHC) is a Education in Sri Lanka#Provincial Schools, provincial school in Kokkuvil, Sri Lanka. During colonial tim ...

in an annual cricket match known as the ''Battle of the Hindus''. The first match took place in 2008.

Principals

* 1890-92 S. Godman Appapillai * 1892-09

Nevins Selvadurai Nevins Selvadurai ( ta, நெவின்ஸ் செல்வதுரை; 15 October 1863 – 28 April 1938) was a Ceylon Tamil teacher, principal of Jaffna Hindu College and a member of the State Council of Ceylon. Early life and famil ...

* 1910-13 A. Shiva Rao * 1913-14 B. Sanjiva Rao * 1914-26

* 1926-27 W. A. Troupe * 1927-28 M. Sabarathnasinghe * 1928-33 V. R. Venkataramanan * 1933-52 A. Cumaraswamy * 1953-61 V. M. Asaipillai * 1962-64 C. Sabaratnam * 1964-71 N. Sabaratnam * 1971 M. Karthigesan * 1971-75 E. Sabalingam * 1975-84 P. S. Kumaraswamy * 1984-90 S. Ponnampalam * 1990-91 K. S. Kugathasan * 1991-96 A. Panchalingam * 1996-05 A. Srikumaran * 2005-14 V. Ganesarajah * 2014–17 I. Thayanandarajah * 2018-19 S. Nimalan (Acting) * 2019 - Ratnam Senthilmaran

Notable alumni

Siva Sivananthan at Jaffna Hindu College

* K. Aiyadurai – Chairman of

Jaffna Urban Council Jaffna Municipal Council ( ta, யாழ்ப்பாணம் மாநகர சபை, translit=Yāḻppāṇam Mānakara Capai; JMC) is the local authority for the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. JMC is responsible for providing a varie ...

Eliathamby Ambikairajah Professor Eliathamby Ambikairajah is a Tamil Australian engineer, academic and head of the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales. Early life Ambikairajah was educated at Jaffna Hindu Colleg ...

– Head of the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications,

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...

* P. Ayngaranesan – Provincial Minister of Agriculture *

A. M. A. Azeez Aboobucker Mohamed Abdul Azeez ( ta, ஏ. எம். ஏ. அஸீஸ்; 4 October 1911 – 24 November 1973) was a Ceylonese civil servant, educator, social worker and member of the Senate of Ceylon. Early life and family Azeez was born o ...

– Member of the

Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

, Assistant Government Agent, Principal of

Zahira College, Colombo Zahira College (commonly known as Zahira) ( si, සහිරා විදුහල, ta, சாஹிரா கல்லுரி) is an Islamic school at Colombo in Maradana, Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1892 as Al Madrasathul Zahira by notab ...

C. Balasingham Coomarasamy Balasingham (10 March 1917 – 15 July 2001) was a leading Ceylon Tamil civil servant. Early life Balasingham was born on 10 March 1917. He was the son of V. Coomaraswamy, a proctor and Tamil language, Tamil scholar from Tellippala ...

–

Permanent Secretary A permanent secretary (also known as a principal secretary) is the most senior Civil Service (United Kingdom), civil servant of a department or Ministry (government department), ministry charged with running the department or ministry's day-to-day ...

, Ministry of Health * N. Balasubramaniam – ambassador * P. Balasundarampillai –

Vice-Chancellor A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system. In most Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth and former Commonwealth n ...

of the

University of Jaffna The University of Jaffna ( ta, யாழ்ப்பாணப் பல்கலைக்கழகம், translit=Yāḻppāṇap Palkalaikkaḻakam; si, යාපනය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය, ''Yāpanaya Viśvavidyālaya''; ...

C. Coomaraswamy Chellappah Coomaraswamy ( ta, செல்லப்பா குமாரசுவாமி; born 25 August 1887) was a Ceylon Tamil civil servant, diplomat and member of the Senate of Ceylon. Early life and family Coomaraswamy was born on 25 ...

– Member of the

, High Commissioner, Government Agent * A. Cumarswamy – Principal of Jaffna Hindu College *

Yogendra Duraiswamy Yogendra Duraiswamy, SLOS was a Sri Lankan diplomat, who served in India, Myanmar, the United States (New York), Australia, Iraq, Italy, China and the Philippines. Early life and education He was born in 1923 in Jaffna to Sir Waithilingam Duraiswa ...

– diplomat * B. Gajatheepan – Member of the

Northern Provincial Council Northern Provincial Council ( ta, வட மாகாண சபை ''Vaṭa Mākāṇa Capai''; NPC) is the provincial council for the Northern Province in Sri Lanka. In accordance with the Sri Lankan constitution, NPC has legislative power ove ...

for Jaffna District * T. T. Jayaratnam – Principal of

Mahajana College, Tellippalai Mahajana College ( ta, மகாஜனாக் கல்லூரி ''Makājaṉāk Kallūri'') is a provincial school in Tellippalai, Sri Lanka. History The school was founded in October 1910 by scholar and poet T. A. Thuraiyappapillai. Maha ...

* Sri Ranga Jeyaratnam – Member of Parliament for Nuwara Eliya District and TV broadcaster * K. Kailasapathy – President of the Jaffna Campus of the

University of Sri Lanka The University of Sri Lanka ( si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය, ta, இலங்கைப் பல்கலைக்கழகம்) was the public university system of Sri Lanka from 1972 to 1978. Est ...

* V. Kailasapillai – Deputy Chairman of

John Keells Holdings John Keells Holdings PLC (JKH) is one of the largest conglomerate companies in Sri Lanka. From managing hotels and resorts in Sri Lanka and the Maldives to providing port, marine fuel and logistics services to IT solutions, manufacturing of foo ...

* P. Kanagasabapathy – Dean of the Science Faculty, Jaffna Campus of the

R. Kanagasuntheram Professor Ragunathar Kanagasuntheram (13 October 1919 – 19 June 2010) was a Sri Lankan Tamil physician, zoologist, academic and dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Jaffna. Early life and family Kanagasuntheram was born on 13 ...

– Dean of the Faculty of Medicine,

P. Kandiah Ponnambalam Kandiah was a Ceylon Tamil ( ta, பொன்னம்பலம் கந்தையா; 1 July 1914 – September 1960) was a Ceylon Tamil academic, teacher, politician and Member of Parliament. Early life and family Kandiah was bo ...

– Member of Parliament for

Point Pedro Point Pedro ( ta, பருத்தித்துறை, translit=Paruttittuṟai; si, පේදුරු තුඩුව, translit=Pēduru Tuḍuva) is a town, located in Jaffna District, Sri Lanka, at the northernmost point of the island. ...

V. A. Kandiah Velupillai Ambalavanar Kandiah (3 September 1891 – 4 June 1963) was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament. Early life and family Kandiah was born on 3 September 1891. He was from the island of Velanaitivu in northern ...

– Member of Parliament for

Kayts Kayts ( ta, ஊர்காவற்துறை, translit=Ūrkāvaṟtuṟai'','' ), is one of the important villages in Velanai Island which is a small island off the coast of the Jaffna Peninsula in northern Sri Lanka. There are number of oth ...

Nalliah Kumaraguruparan Nalliah Kumaraguruparan ( ta, நல்லையா குமரகுருபரன்; si, නල්ලය්යා කුමරගුරුපරන්) is a Sri Lankan Tamil accountant, politician and former provincial councillor. He is ...

– Member of the

Western Provincial Council The Western Province ( si, බස්නාහිර පළාත ''Basnāhira Paḷāta''; ta, மேல் மாகாணம் ''Mael Mākāṇam'') is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrative division of the c ...

for Colombo District * S. Mahadevan – co-founder of

Capital Maharaja Capital may refer to: Common uses * Capital city, a municipality of primary status ** List of national capital cities * Capital letter, an upper-case letter Economics and social sciences * Capital (economics), the durable produced goods used fo ...

* S. Nadesan – Member of the

, leading lawyer * S. Nagarajah –

Mayor of Jaffna The Mayor of Jaffna is the head of the Jaffna Municipal Council, the local authority for the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்� ...

* K. S. Naguleswaran – Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering *

K. Navaratnam Kandiah Navaratnam (born 2 January 1935) is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former Member of Parliament. Navaratnam was born on 2 January 1935. He was educated at Jaffna Hindu College. He is a Hindu. Navaratnam contested the 1989 parliamenta ...

– Member of Parliament for Jaffna District * K. V. Navaratnam – District Judge *

K. Palakidnar Justice Krishnapillai Palakidnar was a leading Sri Lankan lawyer, judge and President of the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka. Early life and family Palakidnar was born in 1931 at Kokuvil in northern Ceylon. He was the son of S. Krishnapillai, Chief ...

– President of the Court of Appeal * V. M. Panchalingam – Government Agent for Jaffna District * K. Parameswaran – Secretary of Ministry of Hindu Affairs *

Shiva Pasupati Deshamanya Shivakumaran Pasupati is a leading Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, President's Counsel, Solicitor General and Attorney General. Early life and family Pasupati is the son of physician V. T. Pasupati and Kamalambikai. He was educated at the ...

–

Attorney General of Sri Lanka The Attorney General of Sri Lanka is the Sri Lankan government's chief legal adviser, and its primary lawyer in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. The Attorney General is usually a highly respected Senior Advocate, and is appointed by the ruling go ...

* Pottu Amman (Shanmugalingam Sivashankar ) – senior member of the

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE; ta, தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகள், translit=Tamiḻīḻa viṭutalaip pulikaḷ, si, දෙමළ ඊළාම් විමුක්ති කොටි, t ...

* S. Rajandram – co-founder of

* Vettivelu Sabanayagam – Deputy Director General of Education * E. Saravanapavan – Member of Parliament for Jaffna District * S. Selvanayagam – Head of the Department of Geography,

Suppiah Sharvananda Deshamanya Suppiah Sharvananda (also spelt Suppiah Sarvananda) was the 37th Chief Justice of Sri Lanka and the first Governor of the Western Province. Early life Sharvanda was born on 22 February 1923 in Kayts, Jaffna District. He attended St. ...

–

Chief Justice of Sri Lanka The Chief Justice of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is the head of the judiciary of Sri Lanka and the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. Established in 1801, the Chief Justice is one of ten Supreme Court justices; the other nine are t ...

Governor A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...

of the

Western Province Western Province or West Province may refer to: * Western Province, Cameroon *Western Province, Rwanda *Western Province (Kenya) *Western Province (Papua New Guinea) *Western Province (Solomon Islands) *Western Province, Sri Lanka *Western Provin ...

* R. Sivagurunathan – Editor-in-Chief of ''

Thinakaran Thinakaran is a daily Tamil newspaper in Sri Lanka. It is published by Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. Its sister newspaper are ''Sunday Observer'', ''Silumina'', ''Dinamina'' and '' Daily News''. The daily newspaper has a circulation of 5 ...

'' * Pon Sivakumaran – Militant *

Siva Sivananthan Professor Sivalingam Sivananthan ( ta, சிவலிங்கம் சிவானந்தன்) is an American academic, scientist, businessman and Director of the Microphysics Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Early lif ...

– Director of the Microphysics Laboratory,

University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a Public university, public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side, Chicago, Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus esta ...

* T. Sivapragasapillai – Professor of Engineering *

V. Sivasubramaniam Veeravagu Sivasubramaniam (also spelt Sivasupramaniam; 14 March 1908 – 5 December 1985) was a leading Ceylon Tamil lawyer and judge. He was a magistrate, District Judge, Additional Permanent Secretary, Acting Permanent Secretary of the Ministry o ...

– Judge,

Supreme Court of Ceylon The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka ( si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය, Sri Lanka Sreshthadikaranaya; ta, இலங்கை உயர் நீதிமன்றம், Ilankai uyar neetimanram) is th ...

* T. Somasekaram – Surveyor General of Sri Lanka * M. Srikantha –

, Ministry of Agriculture & Lands and Ministry of Irrigation & Power * K. Sripavan –

S. Sritharan Sivagnanam Shritharan ( ta, சிவஞானம் சிறீதரன், translit=Civañāṉam Ciṟītaraṉ; born 8 December 1968) is a Sri Lankan Tamil teacher, politician and Member of Parliament. Early life and family Shritharan was ...

– Member of Parliament for Jaffna District * K. C. Thangarajah – co-founder of ''Eelanadu'', Chairman of Paper Mills Corporation * K. Thavalingam – Surveyor General of Sri Lanka * S. Thilainadaraja – Additional Secretary *

Thileepan Rasaiah Parthipan ( ta, இராசையா பார்த்திபன்; 29 November 1963 – 26 September 1987; commonly known by the nom de guerre Thileepan) was a Tamil Eelam revolutionary and member of the Liberation Tigers of Tam ...

(Rasaiah Parthipan) – member of the

who died while on hunger strike * T. S. Thurairajah –

* N. A. Vaithialingam – Chief Engineer of

Ceylon Government Railway The Sri Lanka Railway Department (more commonly known as Sri Lanka Railways (SLR)) ( Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා දුම්රිය සේවය ''Śrī Laṃkā Dumriya Sēvaya''; Tamil: இலங்கை புகையிரத ...

C. Vanniasingam Coomaraswamy Vanniasingam ( ta, குமாரசாமி வன்னியசிங்கம்; 12 October 1911 – 17 September 1959) was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician and member of parliament. Early life and family Vanniasingam w ...

– Member of Parliament for

Kopay Kopay ( ta, கோப்பாய், translit=Kōppāy) is a town about 4 km from the city of Jaffna along Point Pedro road. An agricultural town consisting mainly of vegetable farms, paddy fields and coconut gardens. The suburb Kopay is ble ...

, co-founder of the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (Federal Party) * Raja Viswanathan –

N. Vithyatharan Nadesapillai Vithyatharan (born 1959) is a Sri Lankan journalist. He is the editor of Uthayan and Sudar Oli. He has been arrested, threatened, abducted by Sri Lankan Government and backed paramilitary for his newspapers independent reporting. ...

– editor of ''

Uthayan ''Uthayan'' ( ta, உதயன் Utayaṉ, en, Morning) is a Tamil language Sri Lankan daily newspaper published by New Uthayan Publication (Private) Limited, part of the Uthayan Group of Newspapers. It was founded in 1985 and is published from ...

Notes

References

External links

* * * * * * * {{Authority control 1886 establishments in Ceylon Boys' schools in Sri Lanka Educational institutions established in 1886 Former Hindu schools in Sri Lanka National schools in Sri Lanka Schools in Jaffna

History

Big Match

Principals

Notable alumni

See also

Notes

References

External links