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Sarah Tucker College opens in Palayamkottai

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In 1895 the Sarah Tucker High School at Palayamkottai became a college, the earliest women's college in South India.

Sarah Tucker backed the education of women in the Tirunelveli region, and the mission's girls' schools there bore her name. In 1895 the Sarah Tucker High School in Palayamkottai was upgraded to college status. It is regarded as South India's first college for women. It attained first grade status in 1939 and was afterwards brought under Madurai Kamaraj University.

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