This tablet to the memory of
BABU RAMTANU LAHIRI
Is put up by his surviving uttarpara pupils as a token of the love, gratitude and veneration that he inspired in them while headmaster of the uttarpara school from 1852 to 1856 by his loving care, by his sound method of instruction, which aimed less at the mere imparting of knowledge than at that supreme end of all education, the healthy stimulation of the intellect, the emotion, and the will of the pupil, and above all by the example of the noble life he led.
Born December 1813: died August 1898.
It would be difficult for pupils to inscribe to any teacher a noble tribute than this.
During the few years that succeeded his leaving the Uttarpara school, Ramtanu held several different appointments. Transferred to the Baraset school in 1857, he remained there about eighteen months, exercising the same personal influence over his pupils as elsewhere, and from its vicinity to Calcutta being able to keep in close touch with his friends there. In 1858 he was transferred again to Krishnagar, but after only a few months there he was appointed to the English school at Rassapagla near Calcutta, established by Government especially for the education of Tippoo Sultan's descendants. Though
