Which educational institution was the first to start college classes for women?

The Bethune School for Girls, founded in Calcutta in 1849, was the first institution to open college-level classes for women in India.

It grew from a pioneering effort to bring formal higher education within reach of Indian women.

The Central Hindu Girls School was a school-level foundation and not the first to begin women's college classes.

Vasanta College developed later out of the same Theosophical and Banaras educational movement.

Miranda House in Delhi was established much later, in 1948, as a women's college.

The Bethune institution later evolved into Bethune College, among the earliest women's colleges in Asia.