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File:The Doon School.jpg Main Building of The Doon School
File:Doon School Old Boys' Society.jpg The Doon School Old Boys' Society is the alumni association, and students become members upon graduation.
The Doon School is a boys-only academically selective boarding school in Dehradun , Uttarakhand , India, founded in 1935 by Satish Ranjan Das [ 1] The school's first headmaster was Arthur E. Foot , who had spent some nine years as a science master at Eton College , England.[ 2] The old boys of Doon are known as Doscos , and the alumni body is represented by The Doon School Old Boys' Society . Admission to the school is based on a competitive entrance examination and an interview.[ 3] [ 4]
Doon remains a boys-only school despite continued pressure from political leaders to become coeducational .[ 5] However, girls are admitted in case they are daughters of the school staff (see entries for sculptor Latika Katt and actor Himani Shivpuri ).[ 6] [ 7] Although the total number of Doscos is relatively small (estimated at 5,000 since the school was founded in 1935), they include some of India's prominent politicians, artists, writers, social activists and businesspeople.[ 8]
Abbreviations used in the following tables
DNG – Did not graduate
? – Class year unknown
Note : The sub-headings are given as a general guide and some names might fit under more than one category
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Government
Prime minister
Cabinet Ministers
Chief Ministers
Members of Parliament and Legislative Assemblies
Diplomats and Bureaucrats
Name
Class year
Notability
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Wajahat Habibullah
1969
Civil servant
[ 37]
Parameswaran Iyer
1977
Civil servant; led the Swachh Bharat Mission
[ 38]
Uma Shankar Bajpai
1936
Foreign Secretary , Ambassador to Canada
Vinod Kumar Grover
1953
Foreign Secretary, Ambassador to Netherlands
[ 39]
Inder Pal Khosla
1954
Foreign Secretary, Ambassador to Afghanistan
[ 40]
Dalip Mehta
1958
Foreign Secretary, Ambassador to Bhutan and Turkmenistan
[ 41]
Nagendra Nath Jha
1964
Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands , Ambassador to Ireland and Turkey
Aftab Seth
1959
Ambassador to Japan , Vietnam and Micronesia
[ 42]
Jamsheed Marker
1940
Pakistan's Ambassador to nineteen countries
[ 43]
Vinay Sheel Oberoi
1972
IAS officer ; Secretary, Department of Higher Education , Ministry of Human Resource Development
[ 44]
Khursheed Marker
1941
Minister of Water and Power , Pakistan
[ 45]
Abhinav Kumar
1991
IPS Officer, Director General of Police - Uttarakhand, India
[ 46]
Communist Activist
Name
Class year
Notability
Reference(s)
Kobad Ghandy
1969
Communist activist
[ 47]
Law
Armed forces
Business
Name
Class year
Notability
Reference(s)
Jivesh Bhandari
2024
former director of Tata Sons
[ 59]
Rajiv Dutta
1976
Chief financial officer , eBay and president , Skype
[ 60]
Ajit Narain Haksar
1943
Chairman ITC Limited
[ 61]
Anil Kumar
1976
Director, McKinsey
[ 62]
Vikram Lal
1970
Chairman, Eicher Group
[ 63]
Siddhartha Lal
1991
CEO , Eicher Motors
[ 64]
Vittal Mallya
1939
Chairman, United Breweries Limited , Hoechst AG
[ 65]
M. Ct. Muthiah
1968
Director of Indian Overseas Bank
[ 66]
Sunil Kant Munjal
1973
MD , Hero MotoCorp , Confederation of Indian Industry
[ 67]
Nikhil Nanda
1970
Head, Escorts
[ 68]
Mhd. Rafique Saigol
1949
Chairman, Pakistan International Airlines
[ 69]
Analjit Singh
1971
Chairman, Max Healthcare , Vodafone India ; founder member, Indian School of Business
[ 70]
Malvinder Mohan Singh
1982
Executive chairman of Fortis Healthcare and former CEO & MD of Ranbaxy
[ 70]
Shivinder Mohan Singh
1983
MD , Fortis Healthcare
[ 70]
Gautam Thapar
1976
Chairman, Avantha Group
[ 71]
L. M. Thapar
1952
Chairman, Ballarpur Industries Limited
[ 72]
A. Vellayan
1976
Chairman, Murugappa Group
[ 73]
R. C. Bhargava
1949
IAS officer, later CEO, Maruti Suzuki
[ 74]
Samir Modi
1988
Director of Modi Enterprises ; Founder of 24Seven convenience stores
[ 75]
Sharan Pasricha
1998
CEO of Ennismore Hospitality, founder of The Hoxton and Gleneagles
[ 76]
Rituraj Kishore Sinha
1999
Managing Director SIS Limited
[ 77]
Journalism
Literature
Non-fiction
Fiction, poetry and drama
Education
Name
Class year
Notability
Reference(s)
Arjun Singh Bedi
1988
Professor of Development Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
[ 99]
Bhaskar Vira
1985
Head of Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
[ 100]
Lalit Pande
1963
Founder, Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Environmental Education Centre
[ 101]
Arvind Virmani
1965
Economist, former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India
[ 102]
Suman Bery
1964
Economist, former director general of National Council of Applied Economic Research
[ 103]
Prasenjit Duara
1967
Historian/Professor at Duke University , Writer (Culture, Power And The State )
[ 104]
Kanti Bajpai
1972
Professor at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy , former headmaster of The Doon School
[ 105]
Shomie Das
1953
Former Headmaster of The Doon School; Mayo College ; Lawrence School, Sanawar
[ 106]
Wajahat Habibullah
1961
Director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration
[ 107]
Deepak Lal
1955
Economist at University of California, Los Angeles
[ 108]
Gulab Ramchandani
1948
Former Headmaster of The Doon School
[ 109]
Ravi J. Matthai
1945
Director of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
[ 110]
Vijay Prashad
1985
Professor at Trinity College (USA)
[ 111]
Lovraj Kumar
1947
India's first Rhodes scholar , IAS officer
[ 112]
Arts
Fine arts
Design
Films
Television
Music
Culinary
Sports
Titular Princes
Sources
The class years of the alumni are sourced principally from the following:
The Dosco Record is a book of short biographies, similar to what may be found in a Who's Who , which was first produced by J.A.K. Martyn who deliberately modeled it on the Harrow Record . (Martyn had been a schoolmaster at Harrow School before helping A.E. Foot start The Doon School.) As a consequence, alumni are listed in the year in which they joined Doon, rather than the year in which they graduated; Martyn believed that this would make it easier for Doscos to look up their friends. The book is updated every 8 years or so, and is published by the Doon School Old Boys Society ("DSOBS") and distributed only to alumni. It includes biographical information about every Dosco (even people like Sanjay Gandhi who was expelled before completing his studies); it also highlights family connections between Doscos such as whether a particular Dosco was the son of another Dosco, or married the sister or daughter of another Dosco.
The Rose Bowl is a periodic newsletter that contains alumni news, obituaries, reminiscences, etc. It is produced by the DSOBS and distributed by post to all alumni; a PDF version is also sent by email to alumni.
The Doon School Register is published, every few years, by the DSOBS. It includes the contact details of every Dosco; deceased alumni are noted as such. Also included are the small number of "Associate Members" (honorary members) of The Doon School Old Boys: for the most part these include former teachers; also included are people such as Salim Ali who had been frequent visitors to Doon and were considered to be part of the Dosco fraternity.
Doon, The Story of a School , edited by Sumer Singh, published by the Indian Public Schools Society 1985. This (somewhat slim) book was distributed to alumni and contains essays, reminiscences, and stories about the founding of the Doon School.
The Doon School -- Sixty Years On , edited by Pushpinder Singh Chopra, published by the DSOBS in October 1996. This book is similar in many respects to Doon: The Story of a School , but longer.
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