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200 years is nevertheless a little drop in the continuous progression of astronomical time. On the human scale, be that as it may, it adds up to the life expectancy of around ten ages. That is, if the first-since forever alumni of the school sent their youngsters to C.M.S College Kottayam, and each succeeding age did likewise, they would have their tenth era offspring concentrating here at present. This is just a single sign of the artifact of C.M.S College Kottayam throughout the entire existence of advanced education in Kerala, yet in India all in all. Indeed, C.M.S College, Kottayam – The College Cotym in its unique orthographic symbol – was brought into the world 200 years prior, in 1817. 

The pre-natal history of The College, in any case, goes further back to when Colonel John Munroe expected charge as the Dewan of Travancore. He was a manager, yet a visionary and social reformer. His enthusiasm for social change is borne out by the critical job he played in the cancelation of subjection in Travancore in 1813. A similar enthusiasm provoked Colonel Munroe to name a commission to ask into the financial states of Syrian Christians in the region. Before long, he spoke to the British common capital in Madras to start the procedure for beginning a school in Kottayam. He likewise wrote to Church Missionary Society, which had been set up in 1799 with the acknowledged reason for doing minister and instructive exercises the world over, mentioning the general public to depute profoundly qualified preachers who might fill in as instructors in the school proposed to be set up in Kottayam. Meanwhile, the British Parliament confirmed a contract enabling East India Company to raid into evangelist and instructive work. 

Around the same time, i.e., in 1813, Maharani Gouri Lakshmi Bai(1810-15) of the Travancore Royal family allowed 16 sections of land of land, 500 rupees in real money, and timber from open woods for the development of school structures on the banks of the Meenachil River. The development was additionally bolstered monetarily by the returns from a store made by Col. Colin Macaulay, the principal Resident of Travancore, to assist Syrian Christians in Travancore. 

In 1817, C.M.S Missionary, Rev. Benjamin Bailey assumed responsibility as the primary Principal of The College. He established the frameworks of a cutting edge common instruction by executing an educational plan with a solid convergence of subjects, for example, Syriac, Sanskrit, Latin, English, Greek, History, Mathematics, and Geography. Col. Munroe and Rev. Bailey were unshakable that the scholarly program at The College be no less thorough than that at the University of Cambridge, even as the understudies utilized nearby materials like dried palm leaves and iron stencils rather than Western composition actualizes, for example, paper, pens, and plumes. Selectae e profanis, Virgil's Aeneid, Cicero's Orations, Horace's Epistles, Demosthenes, the initial six books of Euclid and plane and circular trigonometry were a piece of the prospectus. The school kept on getting liberal subsidizing from Maharani Gouri Parvathi Bai(1815-29), and the East India Company. 

The British directors, The Travancore Royal Family, and The C.M.S ministers were altogether persuaded that training alone could lift the individuals of the region from unfairness, obliviousness, ailment, and neediness that had been tormenting them for a considerable length of time. The College was their initial phase toward this path. 

What's more, The College climbed grandly to the test and turned into the core of an upheaval in the primitive, rank ridden society of Kerala in mid nineteenth Century. 

Understanding that the understudies being set up for college assessments lingered behind in English, Mathematics, and Physics, Rev. Joseph Fenn, who succeeded Rev. Bailey as Principal in 1818, started a feeder program as a Grammar School. The individuals who graduated out of the Grammar School had the option to address the difficulties of The College and the University. This Grammar School later advanced into a different substance called C.M.S High School. The umbilical connection between The College and the High School ought not be dismissed, nor should their chronicles be confounded in ordered terms.