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Olcott Memorial High School

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{{coord|13.00387|N|80.26785|E|display=title}}Olcott Memorial High School is a secondary school located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is a free school providing free education, school uniforms, educational materials and nutritious meals to about 500 underprivileged boys and girls. It was started in 1894 by Colonel Olcott with the intention to provide educational upliftment of Paraiyar children.^[1]

It was the first Paraiyar school in the city.^[2] After the demise of Olcott in 1907, the school was renamed as Olcott Memorial Panchama (Paraiyar) School.^[3]

The school provides free education, uniforms, books, and two daily meals to lot of impoverished rural children in Chennai. The school is a portion of Theosophical Society Adyar's charity work. From 1935 to 1998, the school was Government aided. From 1999, Theosophical Society took the responsibility again.^[1]

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1. ^¹{{cite news|title=A school for the poor that the rich may envy|url=http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/magazine/story/olcott/P0/|accessdate=6 August 2015|newspaper=Good News India|date=|location=India}}
2. ^{{cite news|title=Caste back into Tamil literary domain |url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Caste-back-into-Tamil-literary-domain/2013/12/05/article1927893.ece|accessdate=|newspaper=The New Indian Express|date=5 December 2013|location=Chennai, India}}
3. ^{{cite news|title=Gandhi, Thaatha, ThaLapathy, Kudumbar…|url=http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/11/16/gandhi-thaathathalapathy-kudumbar/|accessdate=|newspaper=LankaWeb|date=16 November 2009|location=Sri Lanka}}

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