The Doon School


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The Doon School

The Mall Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal, India 248001

School Mission Statement
The school believes in the philosophy:- To admit children of all castes, creeds, religious and colour without distinction. To inculcate in them a spirit of total secularity and respect for all religions. The educational goal should be to take the best from Indian culture and its rich heritage, adapt the best from the school education system in other countries to our needs and evolve a pattern of all-round education which will develop in its students the best in their minds, in their physique, in their personality, in their personality, in their tr5aits and in their social consciousness to that the foundations are laid for what should eventually be for a good and true citizen of India.
School Background
The Doon School, one of India's first schools owes its existence to the vosion, foresight and dream of Hon'ble Mr. Satish Ranjan Das, one of pre-independent Indian's most eminent barristers and a member of the Executive Council of the Viceroy of India. With support from a wide range of eminent Indians of that time the Indian Public Schools Society was registered as a non-profit making body under the Indian Companies Act in 1929. Unfortunately, Mr. S.R. Das passed away in 1928. Thereafter, his wife and friends collected funds to start the school in September 1935. The society was fortunate to be able to take over the Chand Bagh Estate in Dehra Dun from the Indian Forest College and to acquire the neighbouring Skinners' Estate from the family of the well known Col. Skinner of Skinner's Horse.