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History
The school was established on the auspicious day of Basant Panchami in
February 1869.It started in a residential house belonging to Rai Saheb
Lala Chhunna Mal at Bagh Diwar , near Katra Neel in Chandani Chowk with
62 boys and three teachers and Lala Ramjas Rai as the first Headmaster.
The aim was to provide education to boys in Sanskrit and English. It was
a vision come true for a small group of enlightened and far-sighted
philanthropists Lala Rommi Mal ,Rai Saheb Lala Chhunna Mal ,Lala Ram
Krishan Das,Rai Bahadur Lala Amba Prasad ,Rai Saheb Lala Ishwari
Prasad,Rai Bahadur Lala Sheo Pershad,Rai Bahadur Dharam Sudhakar and
Lala Wazir Singh – all residents of Old Delhi.
In 1887,the School was raised to the status of a High School and
re-named as Anglo Sanskrit Victoria Jubliee High School in commewanation
of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria. With Changing times and trends in
education, it became a higher secondary school in 1943 and a senior
secondary school in 1979.
In 1916, Rai Bahadur Lala Amba Prasad offered to construct a new
building on land measuring 7780 square yards with roads on all the three
sides. The School building was built at a cost of Rs. 80,000 provided
exclusively by the Rai Bahadur.The School shifted to its own present
premises in Daryaganj in November 1920.
In 1928, Lala Hira Lal, a philanthropist of the old city, constructed a
boarding house for the school for 105 students at a cost of Rs. 60,000
at 24, Daryaganj, where the present Commercial Senior Secondary School
is situated .Later, Lady Shri Ram College also started from the same
premises.
In 1939, the School came under unprecedented financial crisis. Sir Shri
Ram ,an alumni, came forward and adopted the school .Shri Ram Education
Foundation managed the School for 6 decades(1940-2000).
In 2000 Shri Ram Education Foundation, finding itself unable to run the school further transferred the management of the school to another Trust.
At present, the School is managed by Dharampal Satyapal Charitable
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