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Hills, District Solan,

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. Sanawar is about an hour's drive from

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. The school, founded by

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and his wife Honoria, 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

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. The motto of the school is "Never Give In". Sanawar is affiliated to India's

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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.Rahul Singh
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'' dated 23 June 2004, ''The Times of India''. Retrieved 22 March 2012 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 Gulab Singh Dogra of Kashmir

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

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, the first

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of the

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. Hodson, who later became famous for

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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

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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". HenryLawrence (1)

By 1853, the school had grown to 195 pupils when it was presented with the King's Colour, one of only seven schools and colleges ever to be so honoured in the British Empire, the others being Eton,

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, the Duke of York's Royal Military School the

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and the

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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. The Girls' Building of the Lawrence Military Asylum

The Girls' Building of the Lawrence Military Asylum

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

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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

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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. 263Ajay Sura,
Few Sanawarians want to join Army
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'' dated 4 December 2011, online at indiatimes.com. Retrieved 25 April 2012 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,

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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

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would serve as

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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

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s of rupees, 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".

Present day

In 2003, ''

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'' described it as one of about half a dozen elite public schools in India, catering for "an upwardly mobile landed and commercial elite".Baljit Malik,
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' in ''

'' dated 1 May 2003, ''The Tribune''. Retrieved 22 March 2012 It is an international member of the

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, based in England. Together with some other leading Indian schools, including

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, The Daly College,

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, the

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, Rajkumar College, and

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, Sanawar is a member of the

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Conference, a worldwide association of some eighty schools which exchange students with each other. Other member schools include

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in Switzerland,

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in Australia,

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and

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in the United States,

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in England, and

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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
''The Times of India'', 4 July 2004. Retrieved 10 March 2012 Till recently, as part of its annual Founder's Day celebrations, attended by many Old Sanawarians, the school continued to troop the Royal colours. Until 1990, a significant number of school-leavers continued to join the armed forces but there has been a sharp decline in this tradition, and in 2011 one Old Sanawarian

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was quoted in ''

'' 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

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—Himalaya, Nilagiri, Siwalik and Vindhya. The houses compete with each other at activities such as

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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.

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,
New principal in, Lawrence shuts out controversy
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Notable alumni

Sanawar's former pupils are known as "Old Sanawarians", "OS" for short Pankaj M Munjal

Public life

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(born 1942), Former Chief Minister of Punjab *

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(born 1962), Former Deputy Chief Minister of

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president, Shiromani Akali Dal * Dushyant Chautala, Deputy Chief Minister of

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, former Deputy Chief Minister of

Lawrence School, Sanawar alumni
''The Times of India''. Retrieved 26 March 2012 *

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(born 1945), former

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(born 1951), politician, Union Minister of State for Defence ProductionHimachal Pradesh Residential schools: Smart learning
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, Former Minister in Government of Punjab * Ajatshatru Singh, former Cabinet Minister in the Jammu and Kashmir Government *

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, former minister in government of Jammu and Kashmir.

Armed services

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, a former Chief of Naval Staff, India * Arun Khetarpal(1950-1971), youngest officer recipient of the

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* Kamaljit Singh * Ranbir Singh

Business

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, publisher and editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf *

Jehangir Wadia Jehangir Nusli Wadia (born 6 July 1973), also known as Jeh Wadia, is an Indian businessman, who was the Managing Director of Go First, Bombay Dyeing and Bombay Realty. He was also a Director on the Boards of Britannia Industries, The Bombay Bu ...

, managing director of

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and

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* Ness Wadia (born 1970), managing director of the

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, Mohan Meakin Limited * Nitin Khanna, entrepreneur, founder and CEO of MergerTech. * Satjiv S. Chahil,

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chairman * Pankaj M Munjal,

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South Asia

Sports

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(born 1965), first Indian to ski to the

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within a year. *

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Prabhsharan Singh Kang,
Leadership through Initiative and Innovation A Case Study on Sanawar
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, Asian Champion, represented India in

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Performing arts

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In fiction

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's novel ''

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), 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".

, ''

'' (1901; reprinted by Wildside Press, 2010), p. 81

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Old Sanawarian Society
Alumni website

Historic School Album
Boarding Schools in India
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