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editThe Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is an independent boarding school in Dehradun, India that was registered in 1927 by Satish Ranjan Das, who sought to establish a public school that would be adapted to Indian traditions and culture. Doon was founded in 1935, with Arthur E. Foot, a former science teacher at Eton College, as its first headmaster. The present headmaster is Peter McLaughlin.
The school enrolls boys aged 13 in January and April of each year. Admission is based on a competitive examination and an interview.[1] In 2008 the school introduced the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme following a trend set by other public schools. The school, located on the 70 acre Chandbagh estate, requires, endorses and hosts multiple different extracurricular activities and also has buildings dedicated to theatre and music.
Doon has consistently been ranked as the top residential school of India by newspapers such as The Times of India and Outlook.[2][3] According to a survey conducted by Education World magazine in 2011, The Doon School's four-year winning streak was broken by the Rishi Valley School after Doon slipped to the second place.[4][5] Pupils are known as Doscos, and alumni have been prominent in Indian public life and commerce.[6] In 1990, a survey conducted by The Economist declared that The Doon School's Old Boys' network is the second-most influential alumni network after Harvard's.
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editThe Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a boys-only private boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. The school is relatively new among Indian boarding schools;[7] its founding in 1935 was the culmination of canvassing by some moderate Indian nationalists led by Satish Ranjan Das, a Calcutta lawyer.[7] The founders foresaw a school modelled on the British public school, but alive to Indian ambitions and desires.[7] The new school was welcomed by Jawaharlal Nehru (who later became India's first prime minister), but Mahatma Gandhi (the architect of India's independence) had no interest in it.[7] The school's first headmaster, Englishman Arthur E. Foot, had spent some nine years as science master at Eton College, England before coming to Doon, and returned to England soon after India's independence.[8] The present headmaster is Peter McLaughlin.
Admission in the school is based on a competitive examination and an interview.[9][10][11] A quarter of the school's students are children of alumni.[11] Although often thought to be from an India-wide aristrocracy,[11] early the students were interested to study in the Doon school when the new technocracy was taking place in the Punjab and the United Provinces.[12] Today, three-quarters of the students are from the North Indian states of Uttarakhand, Punjab, Harayana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar; only three per cent hail from Southern India.[11] Fifty per cent of the parents of students own medium-sized businesses such as petrol stations, cell-phone and car dealerships, appliance stores, and manufacturing units.[11] Doon has consistently been ranked among the best residential schools of India by media such as The Times of India and Outlook.[13][14]
Old boys of the school are commonly known as Doscos.[15] Although the total number of Doscos is relatively small (estimated at 5,000 since the school's founding), they include some of India's most prominent politicians, government officials and business leaders.[16] The best known alumnus is former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Doon remains a boys-only school despite continued pressure from political leaders, including President Pratibha Patil, to become coeducational.[17][18] According to ethnographic filmmaker David Macdougall, there is a tendency among some Doscos to idealize a Golden Age set in the first decade of the school's life, which sometimes makes them resistant to change.[15]
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- ^ Pushkarna, Neha (2011-10-09). "3 Bangalore schools among India's best". The Times of India. The Times Group. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ^ "India's Best Schools". Outlook. Outlook Newsmagazine. 2002-12-16. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ^ "Rishi Valley ends Doon's legacy as best boarding school". CNN-IBN. 2011-09-08. Retrieved 2012-02-24.
- ^ "The Doon School, Dehradun". Education World. 2011-09-08. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ^ "Dame dilemma for Doon – President's co-ed suggestion evokes mixed reaction". The Telegraph (Calcutta). The Telegraph, Calcutta. 2010-10-25. Retrieved 2012-02-09.
- ^ a b c d MacDougall, David (2006), The corporeal image: film, ethnography, and the senses, Princeton University Press, p. 100, ISBN 978-0-691-12156-7, retrieved 31 March 2012
- ^ "FOOT, Arthur Edward". Who Was Who 1961–1970. London: A. & C. Black. 1979. ISBN 0-7136-2008-0.
- ^ "Entrance Exam". The Doon School. Retrieved 2012-02-09.
- ^ Kapoor, Jaskiran (2010-04-11). "Class Apart". Indian Express. Retrieved 2012-03-30.
- ^ a b c d e "Class Up At Doon | Anjali Puri". Outlookindia.com. Retrieved 2012-03-30.
- ^ MacDougall, David (2006), The corporeal image: film, ethnography, and the senses, Princeton University Press, pp. 97–, ISBN 978-0-691-12156-7, retrieved 31 March 2012
- ^ Pushkarna, Neha (2011-10-09). "3 Bangalore schools among India's best". The Times of India. The Times Group. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ^ "India's Best Schools". Outlook. Outlook Newsmagazine. 2002-12-16. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
- ^ a b MacDougall, David (2006), The corporeal image: film, ethnography, and the senses, Princeton University Press, pp. 107–108, ISBN 978-0-691-12156-7, retrieved 31 March 2012
- ^ "For wannabe Doons, don from hills is a boon". Times of India. 2002-12-30. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
- ^ Chopra, Jaskiran (24 October 2010). "President leads assault on Doon School heritage". The Pioneer.
- ^ "Articles about Doon School by Date – Page 4 – Times Of India". Times of India. Retrieved 2012-02-25.