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Who founded the Banaras Hindu University? 

Who founded the Banaras Hindu University?  Correct Answer Madan Mohan Malviya, Madan Mohan Malviya

The correct answer is Madan Mohan Malviya.

Key Points

  • Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya
    • He Born on 25th December 1861, in Allahabad (now Prayagraj) in Uttar Pradesh, Malviya played a key role in the Indian independence struggle against British rule.
    • He founded the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in 1916. Hence, Option 2 is correct.
    • He was given the title of ‘Mahamana’ by Rabindranath Tagore and the second President of India, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan gave him the status of a ‘Karmayogi’.
    • Devnagri was introduced in the British-Indian courts because of Malviya’s efforts with the British government. 
    • He helped establish the Hindu Mahasabha (“Great Society of Hindus”) in 1906, which brought diverse local Hindu nationalist movements together.
    • Malaviya’s consciousness toward the public led to the launch of his Hindi-language weekly, the Abhyudaya (1907); the Leader of Allahabad, an English-language daily (1909); and the Hindi monthly the Maryada (1910). 
    • He died on 12th November 1946, at the age of 84.
    • In 2014, he was posthumously conferred with Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian award.

Additional Information

  • Lala Lajpat Rai
    • He was an Indian independence activist.
    • He played a pivotal role in the Indian Independence movement.
    • He was popularly known as Punjab Kesari.
    • He was one of the three members of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate. 
  • Subhas Chandra Bose
    • He was an Indian nationalist whose defiant patriotism made him a hero in India, but whose attempt during World War II to rid India of British rule with the help of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan left a troubled legacy. 
  • Marco Polo
    • He was a Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer who traveled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. 

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Who founded the Banaras Hindu University (BHU)?
Banaras Hindu University which completed 100 years in February 2016 was founded by A. Gulzari Lal Nanda B. Madan Mohan Malaviya C. Jay Prakash Narayan D. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
Which among the following are the types of Universities existing in India currently?  (A)  Community University  (B)  Deemed University  (C)  Research University  (D)  Central University  (E)  Private University Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
S1: Of the scholars who compose a university, some may be expected to devote an unbroken leisure to learning, their fellows having the advantage of their knowledge from their conversation, and the world perhaps from their writings.
P: Others, however, will engage themselves to teach as well as to learn.
Q: Those who come to be taught at a university have to provide evidence that they are not merely beginners and not only do they have displayed before them the learning of their teachers, but they are offered a curriculum of study, to be followed by a test and the award of a degree.
R: But here again, it is the special manner of the pedagogic enterprise which distinguishes a university.
S: A place of learning without this could scarcely be called university.
S6: There classes of persons, then, go to compose a university as we know it - the scholar, the scholar who is also a teacher, and those who come to be taught, the undergraduate.

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Who founded the Central Hindu School and College in Banaras (now Varanasi)?
Who was the founder of Banaras Hindu University?
Who said the following when laying the foundation stone ceremony of Banaras Hindu University, "There is no salvation for India unless you strip yourself of this jewellery and hold it in trust for your countrymen in India."?
Who among the following had established the Banaras Hindu University?
Who among the following established the Banaras Hindu University?