Aitchison College, Lahore (Photo via Special arrangement: Tarunjit Singh Butalia)
The founder of YPS was Maharaja Yadavindra Singh, the last ruler of the Patiala princely state, who wanted a school on the Indian side on the lines of his own and his father’s alma mater in Lahore.
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This led to the establishment of Yadavindra Public School (YPS), Patiala, in 1948.
However, the Partition of 1947 redrew boundaries in ways that did not spare classrooms either.
Aitchison College in Lahore, one of the very few revered public schools that existed in undivided Punjab
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This led to the establishment of Yadavindra Public School (YPS), Patiala, in 1948.
This led to the establishment of Yadavindra Public School (YPS), Patiala, in 1948.