Langat Singh College, commonly known as L. S. College, is a college in

Muzaffarpur Muzaffarpur () is a city located in Muzaffarpur district in the Tirhut region of the Indian state of Bihar. It serves as the headquarters of the Tirhut division, the Muzaffarpur district and the Muzaffarpur Railway District. It is the fourth ...

, in the Indian state of

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. It was established on 3 July 1899, and is one of the city's oldest colleges. It is named after its founder Langat Singh. It is affiliated to

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, and offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in science and arts. On 10 December 2014, NAAC accredited college by A grade.

History

The college was founded in 1899. Babu Langat Singh played the most prominent part in its establishment. In 1900, the college was affiliated to

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. It was declared a Government College in 1915 and subsequently affiliated to

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in 1917. In 1952, Bihar university was bifurcated from Patna University and L.S. college got affiliated to it. Subsequently, in 1960, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar

Bihar University Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University, formerly Bihar University, popularly known as Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Bihar University (BRABU), is a public university located in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India. Established in 1960, the university has 38 const ...

was established with headquarters at Muzaffarpur and the college was then affiliated to it. The post-graduate Departments of Bihar University split from this institution in 1979. In 1984 post-graduate studies of various streams were restored. Notable faculty members include

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, J.B. Kripalani and

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Astronomical observatory

In August 2022, the astronomical observatory of Langat Singh College was included on the

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list of important endangered heritage observatories of the world. The initiative for the establishment of this observatory was taken by Romesh Chandra Sen of the college. Later, a planetarium, probably the first in India, was also set up in the college in 1946. Both the observatory as well as the planetarium functioned satisfactorily up to the early 1970s, but started declining gradually with the passage of time. The observatory interacted with the Astronomical Observatory of the

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Alumni

* Ajit Anjum * Dhanush Chandra Gautam *

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* Kameshwar Paswan * Achyutanand Singh *

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