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La Martinière College, Lucknow

La Martinière College is an elite private educational institution located in Lucknow, the capital of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The college consists of two schools on different campuses for boys and girls. 

La Martinière College (for boys) was founded in 1845, and La Martinière Girls' College was established in 1869. 

La Martinière Boys' College is the only school in the world to have been awarded royal battle honours for its role in the defence of Lucknow and the Lucknow residency during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. 

The two Lucknow colleges are part of the La Martinière family of schools, founded by the French adventurer Major General Claude Martin. There are two La Martinière Colleges in Kolkata and three in Lyon. 

La Martinière provides a liberal education in the English language. The schools cater for pupils from the age of 5 to 18, and are open to children of all religious denominations.

The boys' school has a Chapel, a Hindu Temple and a Mosque on its campus, and has remained a non-denominational school since its inception, unlike the two La Martinière Schools in Calcutta which are Christian schools, controlled by the Anglican Church of North India. 

The Economist has described its Constantia building as:

"Perhaps the best-preserved 
colonial building in Lucknow".

In 1997 one of the teachers was murdered in the early hours of the morning of the 7th. March. Thirty-year-old Anglo-Indian Frederick Gomes, the college's assistant warden and physical training instructor, was murdered in his bungalow on the perimeter of the school grounds. 

Two people were seen firing shots through a broken window at the back of the building, but the culprits were not identified and the murder remains unsolved. 

However, the murder created a sensation in India at the time, especially when it was found that the school's students had access to guns. 

Newspaper columnist Saeed Naqvi commented: 

"The killing is a metaphor of our times. 
For such a level of violence to reach 
the sacred precincts of La Martinière 
is symbolic of the way that Lucknow, 
like so much of India, has completely 
ceased to be what it once was."

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