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{{Infobox school
 | name                    = Rajkumar College
 | caption                 = 
 | nickname                = RKC
 | image                   = RKC Emblem.JPG
 | image_size              = 200px
 | motto                   = "Knowledge is Power"
 | established             = {{Start date|1868|df=yes}}
 | type                    = [[Public school (privately funded)|Public]] (1938)
 | affiliation             = [[Central Board of Secondary Education|CBSE]]
 | district                = [[Rajkot]]
 | grades                  = K-12
 | founder                 = [[Richard Harte Keatinge]] 
 | president               = HH Thakore Saheb Shri Mandhatasinhji of Rajkot
 | principal               = Mr. Yash Saxena
 | head of school          = 
 | dean                    = 
 | faculty                 = 
 | staff                   = 
 | students                = 1900
 | enrollment              = 
 | sports                  = Cricket, football, hockey, swimming, basketball, tennis, table tennis, horse riding, volleyball, rifle shooting
 | athletics               = Track and field, and athletics meet annually
 | conference              = Boys and Girls Assemble
 | houses                  = Jhalawar, Halar, Sorath, Gohilwar
 | mascot                  = 
 | alumni                  = 
 | free_label              = Alumni website
 | free_text               = <span class="plainlinks"> [http://www.rkcalumni.com/ http://www.rkcalumni.com/]</span>
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 | location                = Gymkhana Road <br />[[Rajkot]] 360001
 | coordinates             = {{Coord|22.2932|70.7974|region:IN_type:edu|display=inline,title}}
 | country                 = India
 | homepage                = [http://www.rkcrajkot.com/ www.rkcrajkot.com/]
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The '''Rajkumar College''' (or '''RKC''') in [[Rajkot]], [[Gujarat]] is one of the oldest [[K-12]] institutions in [[India]]. RKC has a 28.656-acre (1,15,965 m<sup>2</sup>) campus in Rajkot. The foundation stone of Rajkumar College was laid in 1868. The institution was designed by [[Richard Harte Keatinge|Colonel Keatinge]] and was formally opened by the Governor of Bombay, [[William Vesey-FitzGerald|H. B. Sir Seymour Fitzgerald]], in 1870 and just celebrated Sesquicentenary in 2020 [https://rkcrajkot.com/sesquicentenary/] .  The college was founded for the education of the princely order by the princes and chiefs of [[Kathiawad]] for their sons and relations.<ref name="Bhalla2015">{{cite book|author=A. S. Bhalla|title=Monuments, Power and Poverty in India: From Ashoka to the Raj|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=emATBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA151|date=30 March 2015|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-78453-087-7|page=151}}</ref>

== Girls College ==
Rajkumar College for Girls was introduced on 24 March 2011 by Governor of Gujarat Kamala Beniwal.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bhalla |first=A. S. |title=Monuments, power and poverty in India: from Ashoka to the Raj |date=2015 |publisher=I.B. Tauris |isbn=978-1-78453-087-7 |series=International library of colonial history |location=London}}</ref>[[File:Rajkoomar Indian College, Kattywar.jpg|thumb|Rajkoomar Indian College, Kattywar]]

==Notable alumni==
* [[Sambhaji Raje]] Chhatrapati
* [[Bhavsinhji II|Maharaja Bhavsinhji II]] of [[Bhavnagar State]]<ref name="rkc">Forty Years (1870–1910) of the Rajkumar College by Chester Macnaghten. First principal of the college and other sources. Compiled by Sir H.H. Bhavsinhji, Maharaja of Bhavnagar.</ref>
*[[Ranjitsinhji]], Jam Saheb of Nawanagar  (1872–1933)<ref name=rkc/>
* [[Takhtsinhji]], Maharaja of [[Bhavnagar]]<ref name=rkc/>
* [[Ajay Jadeja]], former Indian Cricketer

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== See also ==
* [[Rajkumar College, Raipur]]
* [[List of the oldest schools in the world]]
* [[History of the Indian cricket team]]

==References==
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==External links==
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