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The Rotary movement started on 23rd February 1905
in Chicago, USA.
Rotary was born in India with the first meeting of "Old
Number One" the Rotary Club of Calcutta, at Peliti's Restaurant, 11 Government
Place, Calcutta on 26-Sep-1919 and the granting of its charter on 1st January
1920.
IBCMJS
Although Rotary
Districts were established for the first time in 1912, clubs in India, Burma,
Ceylon, Malayasia, Java and Siam did not come under any District.
They were
grouped together as the IBCMJS area and was placed in charge of
Hony.
Commissioner Sir Frederick E. James, who was a Past President (1924-26) of
Rotary Club of Calcutta.
Provisional
District
A
In 1931 India, Burma and Ceylon were formed into Provisional
District 'A' and
Commissioner F. E. James continued in charge.
Dist.
89
EXTENT
| 1936 - 39
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Afghanistan ,
Burma, Ceylon and India |
On July 1, 1936 Rotary International decided that
India having 16 Rotary clubs - the number increased to 24 in the following year
- should be granted district status. India became Rotary District No. 89. In
1937-38 the first Governor of the District was Sir Pheroze Sethna of the Rotary
Club of Bombay, while Sir Frederick James of Madras continued to be the
Commissioner. He later became the Governor in 1938-39.
GOVERNORS
| 1936 - 37
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Commissioner Sir
Frederick. E. James Calcutta |
| 1937 -
38 |
1st Dist.
Governor Sir Phiroze Sethna Bombay |
| 1938 -
39 |
Sir Frederick.
E. James Calcutta |
Dist.
88
EXTENT
| 1939
- 42 |
Afghanistan,
Burma, and India (that portion which includes Baluchistan, North Western
Frontier Province, Punjab, Kashmir, Sind. Rajputana and Central Indian
States, United Provinces, Bihar, Orissa, Bengal, Assam and the Dist. of
Jabalpur, situated in the Central Provinces ). |
In 1939, District 89 was bifurcated. Clubs in our
region found themselves in District 88 under
District Governor B. T. Thakur.
At that time he was a member of the Rotary Club of Karachi having previously
been its President, but in 1943, on coming to reside in Calcutta, he joined the
Rotary Club of Calcutta.
He can be described as one of the pioneers of
Rotary particularly in what was in those days Western and
North-Western
India. Rotary International honoured him by making him a Director and
subsequently a
Vice-President of Rotary International. He was the first
Asian to receive that distinction and Rotarians throughout India were rightly
proud of the honour accorded to the movement in India and also to be represented
at Rotary headquarters by such a worthy ambassador.
District Governor
Thakur called the first conference of District 88 in March 1940 when 16 clubs
were represented. At that conference Rotarian C. Warren-Boulton, Calcutta's
President for 1939-40, was unanimously elected District Governor for 1940-41 but
as he was held up in the U. S. A. it was recommended that Rtn. B. T. Thakur
should continue to serve for the second year viz. 1940-41.
GOVERNORS
| 1939 -
40 |
B. T. Thakur
(1st Dist. Conf. Calcutta1940) Calcutta |
| 1940 -
41 |
Col. C. G.
Warren - Boulton Calcutta |
| 1941 -
42 |
B. T. Thakur
Calcutta |
District
90
EXTENT
| 1942
- 46 |
Burma and
India (that portion which includes Bengal, Assam, Bihar, Orissa, and
the District of Jabalpur) |
From 1942-43 the District was again renumbered as a
result of the increase of the number of Rotary clubs in India, and became the
90th District. The Rotary club of Calcutta was again honoured by the election of
its Past President Dr. A. C. Ukil as first Governor of the new District and he
presided over its first conference in Calcutta in 1943. At this conference
Rotary International was represented by Rtn. B. T. Thakur. The conference
selected Rtn. W. Buchan of Calcutta as Governor for 1943-44.
GOVERNORS
| 1942 -
43 |
Dr. A. C. Ukil,
Calcutta |
| 1943 -
44 |
W. Buchan
Calcutta |
| 1944 -
46 |
N. C.
Laharry Calcutta |
District
91
EXTENT
| 1946
- 49 |
Burma
and
India (that part comprising the provinces of Bengal , Assam, Bihar,
Orissa and Central Provinces, east of 80 longitude including the District
of Jabalpur, the Eastern States and the
French possession of
Chandannagar. |
The legendary Rtn Nitish Laharry (Past President of
the Calcutta club) became the District Governor of District 90 for two terms in
1944-45 and 1945-46. With the renaming of the District to 91, he served as
Governor for the third time in 1946-47.
GOVERNORS
| 1946 -
47 |
N. C. Laharry
Calcutta |
| 1947 -
48 |
Sir Clifford M.
Agarwalla Patna |
| 1948 -
49 |
U Ba Win
Rangoon |
Dist. 53
EXTENT
| 1949
- 52 |
Bhutan, Burma,
Chandernagar, India - that portion north of the northern boundaries of
Madras Presidency and Hyderabad and east of longitude 80 but including the
District of Jabalpur in the Central Provinces and Berar, South of the
northern boundaries of the Central Provinces and Berar and Eastern States,
and east of the western boundaries of the Province of Bihar; Pakistan --
that portion including East Bengal and Sylhet ( a former district of
Assam).
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| 1952
- 57 |
Bhutan, Burma,
India -- that portion north of the northern boundaries of Madras state and
the States of Hyderabad, east of longitude 80 but including the province
of Jabalpur in the State of Madhya Pradesh and east of the western
boundary of the State of Bihar, Pakistan-that portion including the
province of East Bengal. |
Rotary in India continued to be active forming
new clubs and soon new Districts had to be formed to prevent the old
geographical areas becoming too unwieldy. Calcutta found itself in Rotary
District 53. The District was unique in that it covered in those days 18 Rotary
clubs located in no less than three countries viz., India, East Pakistan and
Burma. The Indian Territory included West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Assam and a
portion of Madhya Pradesh.
In May 1953 District Governor S. C. Chatterjee
of Rangoon held a District Assembly at Calcutta. The 53rd District's sixth
conference gathered in Calcutta in February 1954 under District Governor Major
S. C. Dutt who was a Calcutta Rotarian and was president of his club in
1951-52.. At this conference Rtn Lawly Sen of Patna was elected District
Governor 1954-55. Lawly was one of the most popular Rotarians of the District
and a founder member of the Patna Rotary club. The most enjoyable feature of the
conference was the visit of a very large number of delegated from East
Pakistan.
Following this conference an All-India Governors' conference
was held at Calcutta, the Convenor being Past Governor Dr. A. C. Ukil of
Calcutta and the Secretary, Past President J. K. Deb of Calcutta. A District
assembly met at Patna in April 1954 and a large contingent of Calcutta Rotarians
attended. The Assembly elected Rotarian J. F. Bartos, president of the Calcutta
Club 1953-54, as Chairman of the Rotary Golden Anniversary Committee at District
level. The District could not have selected a better man, as since he joined the
Calcutta Rotary Club, he set a fine example to others not only in his hard work
for Rotary, but also in his vocation. He and his colleagues from Batanagar,
several of whom were Rotarians, served Rotary truly and well.
GOVERNORS
| 1949
- 50 |
Dr. H. K. Mitra
Jamshedpur |
| 1950
- 51 |
Dr. R. K. Bube
Jabalpur |
| 1951
- 52 |
Dr. Lalit Sen
Asansol |
| 1952
- 53 |
Subodh C
Chatterjee Rangoon |
| 1953
- 54 |
Major Sudhir C.
Dutta Calcutta |
| 1954
- 55 |
Lawley Sen
Patna |
| 1955
- 56 |
S. M. Hossain
Dacca |
| 1956
- 57 |
G. Basu
Calcutta |
District
325
EXTENT
| 1957
- 58 |
BURMA.
INDIA-that portion including Assam, Nagaland and West Bengal. NEPAL and
SIKKIM and that portion of BIHAR within the territorial limits of the
Rotary Club of Asansol, West Bengal.
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| 1958
- 59 |
East of
longitude 80 but including the province of Jabalpur in the State of Madhya
Pradesh and east of the western boundary of the State of Bihar, Nepal,
Pakistan - that portion including the province of East Bengal and
Sikkim.
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| 1959
- 76 |
Bhutan, Burma,
India - the States of Bombay, that portion east of longitude 80,
(including the district of Jabalpur) and south of the southern boundaries
of the Districts of Panna, Satna, Shadol and Sidhi; Orissa, Bihar, West
Bengal and Assam; and Manipur and Tripura , Nepal, Pakistan - that portion
including East Pakistan; and Sikkim. |
At the end of the decade (1957) the District was
regrouped and renumbered with three digits into Districts 325 and 326. Our
district became District 325
GOVERNORS
| 1957
- 58 |
Raj Kishore
Prasad Patna |
| 1958
- 59 |
B. H. Engineer
Dhanbad |
| 1959
- 60 |
M. A. Raschid
Rangoon |
| 1960
- 61 |
S. N.
Bhattacharya Patna |
| 1961
- 62 |
Saral Deb
Calcutta |
| 1962
- 63 |
A. Rahim Khan
Dacca |
| 1963
- 64 |
Hemen Ganguly
Ranchi |
| 1964
- 65 |
C. R. Bose
Gopalpur -on-Sea |
| 1965
- 66 |
P. N. Mookherjee
Jamshedpur |
| 1966
- 67 |
K. N. Mookherjee
Calcutta |
| 1967
- 68 |
H. Mahapatra
Patna |
| 1968
- 69 |
Rajendra Singh
Jabalpur |
| 1969
- 70 |
Mihir Roy South
West Calcutta |
| 1970
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Dr. K. C.
Sarbadhikari (expired 10-Oct-70) Calcutta |
| 1970
- 71 |
P.N. Mookherjee
(nominated by R. I.) Calcutta |
| 1970
- 71 |
A. F. M. Abdul
Haq (nominated by R.I.) Dacca |
| 1971
- 72 |
K. N. Mookerjee
(nominated by R.I.) Calcutta |
| 1972
- 73 |
Vijay S.
Bhandari, Kharagpur |
| 1973 |
Sisir Ghosh
Calcutta (Expired 24-Oct-73) |
| 1973
- 74 |
Vijay S.
Bhandari (nominated by R.I.) Kharagpur |
| 1974
- 75 |
Motilal Gupta
South West Calcutta |
| 1975
- 76 |
Iftekharul Alam
Dacca |
| 1976
- 77 |
Ramesh Chaudhury
Gauhati |
Dist 329
EXTENT
| 1977
- 84 |
Bihar and Orissa
was separated into a new District and Dist. 329 consisted of in India -
West Bengal, Assam, and the adjacent areas ; the whole of Bangladesh and
the whole of Nepal. |
In 1977 the District was renumbered to District 329
with Prabhat Kumar Sinha of RC South Calcutta being its first
Governor.
GOVERNORS
| 1977
- 78 |
Probhat Kumar
Sinha South Calcutta |
| 1978
- 79 |
M. C. Poddar S.
W. Calcutta |
| 1979
- 80 |
Dr. G. C. Sen
Asansol |
| 1980
- 81 |
M. Masihur
Rahman Dacca |
| 1981
- 82 |
Ajit Kr. Prasad
Darjeeling |
| 1982
- 83 |
Amiya Sankar
Gupta East Calcutta |
| 1983
- 84 |
Om P. Oberoi
Calcutta Midtown |
Reconstituted Dist. 329
EXTENT
| 1984
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India - Andaman
and Nicobar Islands. Arunachal , Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram,
Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, West Bengal; and the whole of
Nepal. |
1984 saw a major reorganization. Bangladesh and
Pakistan were made separate Districts and
our District 329 was
reconstituted.
GOVERNORS
| 1984
- 85 |
Dr. S. C. Nandy
Calcutta |
| 1985
- 86 |
A. K. Dutta Dum
Dum |
| 1986
- 87 |
K. K. Navada
South Calcutta |
| 1987
- 88 |
M. C. Tandon
Dibrugarh |
| 1988
- 89 |
Shyamal Datta
Behala |
| 1989
- 90 |
Kamal Seth
Calcutta Midtown |
Renamed Dist. 3290
EXTENT
1990-1991 saw
the formation of Dist 3240 which was formed taking a part of our Dist 329.
The election of the DGE was conducted 1989-90 and the first DG of newly
formed Dist 3240
was Rtn Ramesh Agarwala.
| 1990 |
11 revenue
districts of WEST BENGAL viz., Kolkata, 24-Parganas North, 24 Parganas
South, Bankura, Hooghly, Howrah, Murshidabad, Nadia, Paschim Medinipur,
Purba Medinipur and Purulia); ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS and the
Himalayan Kingdom of NEPAL. |
From 1990 Rotary International introduced 4 digits
in its District numbering system and District
3290 as we know it today, came
into being.
GOVERNORS
| 1990
- 91 |
Subimal Ghosh
Calcutta |
| 1991
- 92 |
Subimal
Bhattacharya Dum Dum |
| 1992
- 93 |
K. Chandramohan
Budge Budge |
| 1993
- 94 |
Amitava
Bhattacharya Jadavpur |
| 1994
- 95 |
Amit Chandra
Majumdar Salt Lake City |
| 1995
- 96 |
Aloke Chand
Mitter East Calcutta |
| 1996
- 97 |
Tehmas Manekshaw
Kathmandu |
| 1997
- 98 |
Anjan Kumar
South Calcutta |
| 1998
- 99 |
Prabhat Krishna
Rohatgi Calcutta |
| 1999
- 00 |
Shekhar Mehta
Calcutta Burra Bazar |
| 2000
- 01 |
Ravi Sehgal
Belur |
| 2001
- 02 |
Siddhartha
Sadhan Bose Calcutta South West |
| 2002
- 03 |
Amitava
Mookerjee Calcutta South East |
| 2003
- 04 |
Raj Kumar
Rajgaria Central Calcutta |
| 2004
- 05 |
Prabir
Chakravarti, Calcutta |
| 2005
- 06 |
Swapan
Mukherjee, Narendrapur |
| 2006
- 07 |
Debasish Mitra,
Dhakuria |
| 2007
- 08 |
Anirudha Roy
Chowdhury, Calcutta Mega City |
Dist. 3291
2008-2009 saw the formation of Dist 3291 (old
District 3290 minus the clubs in Nepal
grouped under a separate Dist
3292).
EXTENT
| 2008 |
11 revenue
districts of WEST BENGAL viz., Kolkata, 24-Parganas North, 24 Parganas
South, Bankura, Hooghly, Howrah, Murshidabad, Nadia, Paschim Medinipur,
Purba Medinipur, Purulia)
and the ANDAMAN & NICOBAR
ISLANDS. |
From 1st July 2008, Nayantara Palchoudhuri will
become the first lady Governor of our
District 3291 while Tika Man Vaidya
will take up the reins of the Nepal clubs.
GOVERNORS
| 2008
- 09 |
Nayantara Pal
Choudhuri, Calcutta Inner City |
Source: Rotary Club of Calcutta Archives,
rotarchives@gmail.com
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