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Kedarnath founded Ramjas School in 1912 for children from poor and lower middle-class families at a small rented house in Chandni Chowk’s Kucha Natwa. A committed Kedarnath also drew students from villages and backward classes, and his second school at Kala Pahad was primarily meant for them. The college today boasts of a spacious campus, state-of-the-art infrastructure. In 1917, Rai Kedarnath noticed that students from well-off sections of the society were getting admissions in colleges like St Stephen’s and Hindu, but those who could not afford elite education were left in the lurch. Kedarnath, a retired district judge who ran a school in Old Delhi’s Darya Ganj and who wanted to establish a way forward for students of his school, decided to build a college that would provide affordable higher education. And hence came Ramjas College, one of the oldest in the national capital that started from humble precincts in Darya Ganj. Kedarnath founded Ramjas School in 1912 for children from po...