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CGC is situated on Main Street in Chundikuli, a south-eastern suburb of Jaffna.Since its founding the school has mainly catered to Sri Lankan Tamil girls. The school is divided into three: a primary school providing specialised education from grades 1 to 5; the middle school for students from grades 6 to 8; and the senior school for students from grades 9 to 12.
Vannankulam, Jaffna, Passaiyoor, Chundikuli Girls' College, Gurunagar, Chundikuli, Old Park and St. John's College, Jaffna are located within, nearby or associated with Eachchamoddai. Eachchamoddai is a surrounded by the Passaiyoor West , Chundikuli South , Columbuthurai West , Columbuthurai West , Ariyalai S. W. (East) , Passaiyoor East ...
She attended Chundikuli Girls' College in Jaffna. [3] She went on to complete a master's degree in science at the University of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, India, followed by a doctorate at Columbia University, New York. [1] [2] She became a lecturer in Lucknow, India, at Isabella Thoburn College. [1]
Chundikuli means "the pond of the cunti plant" in Tamil and is derived from the Tamil words cunti (several aquatic plants from the mimosa genus) and kuli (pond). [3] The suburb is divided into two village officer divisions (Chundikuli North and Chundikuli South) whose combined population was 3,618 at the 2012 census. [1]
In 1813 the Methodist's British Conference approved the establishment of missions in Ceylon, Java and the Cape of Good Hope. [4] On 30 December 1813 Dr Thomas Coke, seven missionaries (William Ault, Benjamin Clough, George Erskine, Martin Harvard, James Lynch, Thomas H. Squance) and two of the missionaries' wives left Portsmouth and sailed to Ceylon.
In 1845 the school was relocated to Chundikuli and renamed the Chundikuli Seminary. In the same year the Church Mission Society took over the old Portuguese St. John the Baptist church. In 1846 the school moved into a hall next to the church. [7] The church was demolished in 1859 and replaced by the current church. [8]
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Jaffna is known in Tamil as Yalpanam and earlier known as Yalpanapattinam.A 15th-century inscription of the Vijayanagara Empire mentions the place as Yalpaanayanpaddinam. [citation needed] The name also occurs on copper plates issued by Sethupathi kings of the same era. [4]