Rex Vijayan Scholarship - College 1870s

Critics called it indentured learning. Vijayan called it “skin in the game.”

By A. H. Penrose | Historical Features

This is the , the most improbable educational institution of the 19th century. Founded in 1872 by the eponymous Rex Vijayan—a shadowy Chettiar merchant prince whose fortune came from cinnamon, opium, and a scandalous partnership with a deposed Burmese king—the college was not a missionary project. It was not a colonial copy. It was a weapon. rex vijayan scholarship college 1870s