The Lawrence School, Sanawar, is the oldest Co-Ed boarding school in the world near
Solan city. Established in 1847, its history, influence, and wealth have made it one of the most prestigious and oldest schools in Asia.
It is located in the
Kasauli
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Hills,
District Solan,
Himachal Pradesh
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,
India
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. Sanawar is about an hour's drive from
Chandigarh
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. The school, founded by
Sir Henry Lawrence
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and his wife
Honoria
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, is one of the oldest surviving boarding schools.
As the school is located in Sanawar, the school is popularly called "Sanawar". It is situated at a height of 1,750 metres and spread over an area of 139 acres, heavily forested with pine, deodar and other conifer trees. The school has been ranked among the best residential schools of India. In May 2013 Sanawar created history by becoming the first school in the world to send a team of seven students and climb
Mount Everest
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.
The motto of the school is "Never Give In".
Sanawar is affiliated to India's
Central Board of Secondary Education
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. Children are admitted to Sanawar in February each year, at the age of nine and ten years. Class Five (Lower III) is preferred as the entry point. Admission is based on a competitive entrance examination, held the preceding November, followed by an interview.
In the school's name, "Sanawar" is the name of the hill on which it stands.
[A. C. C. DeRenzy, 'Report on the Lawrence Military Asylum', Appendix III to ''Report on the sanitary administration of the Punjab'' (Punjab Medical Department, 1870), paragraphs 6 to 10 at pp. 46A & 47A: "His Honour will be surprised to hear that the children are subject to a very high sickness and death-rate, but such is the fact ...a considerable part of the drainage from south aspect of the Sanawar hill flows within a few paces of the place where the spring emerges... The spring is about two miles, from the Asylum... a separate hospital for the treatment of contagious diseases is indispensable."] The nearest railway station is now usually spelt "Sonwara". Sanawar is believed to be the oldest mixed-sex boarding school anywhere in the world.
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Henry Lawrence's intent was to provide for the education of the orphans of British soldiers and other poor white children. In 1845 he outlined the creation of a boarding school in the Indian highlands for boys and girls.
[Dane Keith Kennedy, ''The Magic Mountains: hill stations and the British raj'' (1996), p. 136] He stated his aim as being to create
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The school at Sanawar was established as the first such asylum on 15 April 1847,
[ when fourteen girls and boys arrived at Sanawar in the charge of Lawrence's sister-in-law Charlotte Lawrence, wife of George Lawrence, and a superintendent Healey. The school was co-educational from its beginning.][''Outlook'' (Hathway Investments Pvt Ltd, 1997), p. 98] The site had been chosen by Lawrence, after discussions with William Hodson and others, considering that it was an "ideal location" which "afforded the necessary requisites: isolation, ample space, water, a good altitude, and all not too far from British troops". The construction of the buildings was paid for by Lawrence and other British officers, with a large contribution from Gulab Singh
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, the first Maharaja
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of the princely state
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of Jammu and Kashmir.[ Hodson, who later became famous for ]Hodson's Horse
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, supervised the construction of the school's first buildings and is still commemorated by the annual Hodson's Run, a competition between the school's houses. In the early days some Anglo-Indian
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children were admitted, but Lawrence insisted that preference should be given to those of "pure European" parentage, as he considered they were more likely to suffer from the heat of the plains.[
Under its first professional headmaster, W. J. Parker, who was appointed in 1848, the school was known as "Lawrence's Asylum", reflecting its focus on orphans.]['Photocopies and transcripts of extracts from diaries and papers of Maj-Gen William Clive Justice (1835-1908): 11: Copy of letter from Sir Henry Lawrence to Rev W. J. Parker' a]
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. Retrieved 10 March 2012 In 1858 it was renamed the "Lawrence Royal Military School".[
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, the Duke of York's Royal Military School
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the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
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and the Lawrence School, Lovedale
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. Sanawar has held its colour for the longest unbroken period.
The tradition of military training at Sanawar has always been strong and was of such a high standard that several contingents of boys were enlisted from the school and sent straight to the battlefields of the First World War. In appreciation of this, the school was redesignated in 1920 as the "Lawrence Royal Military School" and, in 1922, the Prince of Wales presented the school with new Colours. This pattern of military service was repeated again during the Second World War and, according to a BBC Radio broadcast on 3 October 1941, more than two hundred Sanawarians had joined up. The school Colour continues to this day to be trooped at the Founders' Celebration in early October, and Sanawar pupils continue to make a major contribution to the defence of the country.
In its first two decades, the school suffered an unexpectedly high death rate, with forty children dying between 1848 and 1858, of whom thirteen were the victims of an outbreak of cholera
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in 1857. In the next ten years, there were seventy-two further deaths, and in 1870 a Punjab Medical Department report proposed measures to improve the school's sanitation
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, as well as "a separate hospital for the treatment of contagious diseases".[ The headmaster, John Cole, was inspired to write a book called ''Notes on Hygiene with Hints on Self-discipline for Young Soldiers in India'' (1882).][Mark Harrison, ''Public Health in British India: Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine'' (1994), p. 263][Ajay Sura, ]
Few Sanawarians want to join Army
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Sanawar's centenary year (1947) was crucial to the development of the school. With Indian independence, the bulk of the staff and children at Sanawar returned to Britain. However, the then-Governor General, Lord Mountbatten
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, presided at the centenary celebrations and read out a message from King George VI. Thereafter, control of the school passed from the Crown to the government of India's Ministry of Defence. A further transfer in 1949 brought the school under the control of the Ministry of Education. In June 1952 the ministry resolved to administer the school through a society created under the Societies Registration Act 1860, subject to a Memorandum of Association and rules and regulations to be approved by the government. These provided that the government Secretaries in the Ministries of Education, Defence, and Finance
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would serve as ex-officio
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members of the society, with four other members appointed by the government. The employees of the school, previously government servants, lost that status. The property and other assets of the school, which then had an estimated value of twenty-five lakh
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s of rupees
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, were transferred to the society with effect from June 1954.
The school celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1997,[ and India marked the occasion with a two-rupee commemorative postage stamp issued in October 1997 and inscribed "1847-1997 THE LAWRENCE SCHOOL SANAWAR".
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, The Daly College
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, Mayo College
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, the Scindia School
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, Rajkumar College, and Baldwin Boys High School
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, Sanawar is a member of the Round Square
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Conference, a worldwide association of some eighty schools which exchange students with each other. Other member schools include Aiglon College
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and Chadwick School
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in England, and Gordonstoun
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in Scotland.
The school honours its original purpose by continuing to offer a reduction in fees for the children of military families. About a quarter of the boarders are the sons and daughters of former pupils.[Salaried class shying away]
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'' as saying that in his day "the main aim was to join the forces, but now hardly anyone is interested in doing so".[
Sanawar is divided into four ]houses
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—Himalaya, Nilagiri, Siwalik and Vindhya. The houses compete with each other at activities such as cricket
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, cross country running
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, debating
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and many other activities.[
A group of Sanawarians have entered the record books as they are the youngest team and the first school in the world to have conquered Mt. Everest. These teenagers ranged between the ages of 15 and 16. One of the climbers is the youngest Asian and the second-youngest person in the world to scale Mt. Everest.
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Principals and headmasters
* 1848—1863: W. J. Parker[
* 1864—1884: J. Cole][
* 1884—1912: A. H. Hildersley
* 1912—1932: Rev. G. D. Barne, later Bishop of Lahore
* 1932—1933: E.S. Hunt
* 1933—1941: A.E. Evans
* 1941—1946: C.G O'Hagan
* 1946—1947: H.E. Hazell
* 1947—1956: E. G. Carter
* 1956—1970: Ravi Somdutt][
* 1970—1970: Trevor C Kemp (acting)
* 1970—1973: B. R. Pasricha
* 1973—1974: Bhupendra Singh (acting)
* 1974—1988: Shomie Ranjan Das
* 1988—1995: Sumer B. Singh
* 1995—1999: Harish Dhillon OS
* 1999—2000: Rene A. Solomon (acting)][
* 2000—2003: Andrew Gray][
* 2003—2003 (May to September): Derek Mountford (acting)][Amit Chaudhry, ]
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* 2003—2004: Gautam Chatterjee[
* 2005—2014: Praveen Vasisht
* 2014—2016: Shonu Mukherjee (Offg.)
* 2016—2019: Vinay Pande]
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*2020–Present: Himmat Singh Dhillion
Notable alumni
Sanawar's former pupils are known as "Old Sanawarians", "OS" for short
Public life
* Amarinder Singh
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(born 1942), Former Chief Minister of Punjab
* Omar Abdullah
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(born 1970), former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir[
* ]Sukhbir Singh Badal
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* ]Dushyant Chautala
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, Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana
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* Chander Mohan, former Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana
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[Lawrence School, Sanawar alumni]
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* Navin Chawla
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* Maneka Gandhi
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(born 1956), Union Minister Child and women welfare, environmentalist and animal welfare activist.
* Jetsun Pema
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, Queen consort of Bhutan
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* Rao Inderjit Singh
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(born 1951), politician, Union Minister of State for Defence Production[Himachal Pradesh Residential schools: Smart learning]
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* Bikram Singh Majithia, Former Minister in Government of Punjab
* Ajatshatru Singh, former Cabinet Minister in the Jammu and Kashmir Government
* Taranjit Singh Sandhu
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* Uzair
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, former minister in government of Jammu and Kashmir.
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* K. C. Cariappa
* Kamaljit Singh
* Ranbir Singh
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* Jehangir Wadia
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, managing director of GoAir
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*Rakesh Mohan
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* Nitin Khanna, entrepreneur, founder and CEO of MergerTech.
* Satjiv S. Chahil, Silicon Valley
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multimedia
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marketer
* Punit Renjen
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, Deloitte
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chairman
* Pankaj M Munjal, Hero Cycles
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chairman and managing director
* Nakul Chopra, CEO of BARC India & Former CEO, Publicis
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South Asia
Sports
* Manavjit Singh Sandhu
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, Indian Olympic team, 2012, world trap shooting champion, 2010, and Commonwealth Games
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gold medallist
* Ajeet Bajaj (born 1965), first Indian to ski to the North Pole
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and the South Pole
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within a year.
*Ranjit Bhatia
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, athlete who ran in the marathon
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and 5000 meters
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events at the 1960 Summer Olympics
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[Prabhsharan Singh Kang, ]
Leadership through Initiative and Innovation A Case Study on Sanawar
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*Shiva Keshavan
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in 6 Winter Olympic Games
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in 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018.
*Imtiaz Anees, Indian Equestrian Team, Olympics, Sydney, 2000.
* Rohit Singh, Indian National Rugby Team, season 2005-06
* Raghav Joneja, mountain climber
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, actor and producer
* Saif Ali Khan
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*Kirat Bhattal
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*Papa CJ
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, stand-up comedian
* Shaad Ali
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* Pooja Bedi
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, model
*Siddharth Kak
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, film maker[Hemal Ashar]
'Ragging a reflection of our brutal world'
at mid-day.com. Retrieved 7 March 2012
* Iqbal Khan, actor
*Apoorva Lakhia
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* Tarun Mansukhani
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* Bikramjeet Kanwarpal
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* Vir Das
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* Iloosh Ahluwalia, artist
In fiction
In Rudyard Kipling
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's novel ''Kim
Kim or KIM may refer to:
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* Kim (given name)
* Kim (surname)
** Kim (Korean surname)
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'' (1901), a priest called Father Victor proposes that the central character, the boy Kim, should be sent to Sanawar, of which he says "It's miraculous beyond all whooping" and adds "We'll make a man of you at Sanawar - even at the price o' making you a Protestant".Rudyard Kipling
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...
, ''Kim
Kim or KIM may refer to:
Names
* Kim (given name)
* Kim (surname)
** Kim (Korean surname)
*** Kim family (disambiguation), several dynasties
**** Kim family (North Korea), the rulers of North Korea since Kim Il-sung in 1948
** Kim, Vietnamese f ...
'' (1901; reprinted by Wildside Press, 2010), p. 81
Further reading
*H. M. Lawrence, ''The Lawrence Military Asylum: being a brief account of the past ten years of the existence and progress of the institution established in the Himalayas by the late Sir H. M. Lawrence for the orphan and other children of European soldiers'' (1858; reissued by Kessinger Publishing, 2010)
*Harish Dhillon, Rathin Mitra, ''Sanawar: the Lawrence School sesquicentenary, 1847-1997'' (Lawrence School, Sanawar, 1997), 120 pp.
*Manju Khan, K. J. Parel, ''Sanawar: a Legacy'' (Lawrence School, Sanawar, 1997) 248 pp.
See also
* Lawrence School, Lovedale
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References
External links
*
Old Sanawarian Society
Alumni website
Historic School Album
Boarding Schools in India
The Plenum School
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Round Square schools
Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
Boarding schools in Himachal Pradesh
High schools and secondary schools in Himachal Pradesh
Schools in Solan district
Educational institutions established in 1847
1847 establishments in British India