The journey began almost eighty two years ago from a rented house (106A, Park Street) situated in the same Park Circus area where Lady Brabourne College is located today. It was in March 1938, that Hon’ble A.K. Fazlul Huq, the then Prime Minister of undivided Bengal, announced the establishment of a Purdah College to address the issue of Higher Education among Muslim women. Subsequently on 26th August,
1939 the Governor of Bengal, Sir John Woodhead laid the foundation stone on a spacious plot in Park Circus where the College shifted in 1941 to its present premises at P-1/2 Suhrawardy Avenue, Kolkata – 700017. It was soon named Lady Brabourne after the lady who had been instrumental in making Huq’s efforts become a reality. Doreen Knatchbull Lady Brabourne was the wife of Michael Herbert Rudolf Knatchbull Brabourne (Lord Brabourne), the late Governor of Bengal. Initially meant for Muslim girls, the College opened its doors to non-Muslim women the very next year i.e. 1940 as “it was decided that 40% of non-Muslim students would be taken”.