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Master Rallia Ram The Headmaster of Rang Mahal School In Lahore The Simple Natured Head Master

No cars, no bungalows, an average man obsessed with education as well as other things. He loved to ride his bicycle everywhere. History was his passion and he wrote a text book on Punjab, which is there in our archives. He was also fond of music and loved to play the piano. He had many students in the field of music too

Bad Condition of Graves in Gora Qabristan Lahore Where The Founder of Fc College Lahore is Buried

We doubt whether any other man, European or Indian, has taken as great a part in the making of the Punjab of to-day as has Dr. Forman. A history of his educational work would be almost the educational history of the province (Punjab),” noted The Tribune on the death of Rev. Dr. Charles William Forman, who founded the first missionary college in the entire north of India.

The Forman Christian College University website notes its major contribution to the cultural, political, educational, and judicial history of the nation over more than a century:

Among the college’s distinguished alumni are two Presidents of Pakistan, a Prime Minister of Pakistan, a Prime Minister of India, the first Chief Justice of Pakistan, a president of the UN Security Council, numerous ambassadors, Chief Ministers, an Attorney General of Pakistan, and a Foreign Minister of Pakistan. There is an equally impressive list of leaders in the fields of education, law, medicine, the arts and entertainment … Dr Compton conducted most of his research on cosmic rays while a faculty member at FCC, which led to his receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927.

This list does not include recently retired Chief Justice of Pakistan Tassaduq Hussain Jillani and Supreme Court Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, bot Following Forman’s death on August 27, 1894, the people of Lahore demonstrated their great respect and regard for the man and his work when his body was brought to Rang Mahal Mission School in the Walled City where he had served for about half a century:

“The funeral services took place among the people, whom he had long and tenderly loved … The gates of the City were thrown open, a thing which had never happened before, and instead of objecting to its passage as might have been expected, the inhabitants vied with each other for the honour of having the funeral procession pass along their streets. They followed the procession to the grave and there manifested genuine sorrow, for they knew that they had lost a true friend.”

His body was buried in the Taxali Gora Graveyard, which is probably the oldest Christian graveyard in the city.

Forman was raised “without religion” and entered into the family business of manufacturing hemp. He was born in a landed family in Kentucky to Ezekiel and Dolly (Wood) Forman on March 3, 1821. About the house where he was born, his son, Dr. Henry Forman, wrote: “The house is still standing, a half-mile outside the old town of Washington in the beautiful blue-grass region Kentucky … it attracted travellers out of their way to see it … And the wide hall way and rooms still testify to the generous spirit of hospitality.”