Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, the founder of Banaras Hindu University (BHU). Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya was born on 25 December 1861 in Sanskrit scholar family.
When he was award as the Bharat Ratan for his contribution to India as Hindu Nationalist .As Panditji was closely associated with Hindu culture and having the deep knowledge of Hindu ideology. All the architect of university resembled to Hindu Temple.
In the same time India also in the phase to understanding the administration of British government.No major revolt or movement was going on against the British Government. To literate the people of India and increases the number of literate people took initiation for university.
Before Independence, it was not easy for common man to get the education. At that time in 1900s Panditji start cultivating the dream for university or a body where common man of India being educated.
On, 1904 Madan Mohan Malaviya put the proposal of establishing the university in Kashi under the chairmanship of Kashi Naresh.
In April 1911, Malviya ji met Annie Besant was running the Central Hindu School based on Hindu Philosophy and want to establish the university. This incidence brings deep change in Malviyaji life that foreigner try to establish the Hindu college. He left his legal practice to focus exclusively on developing the University in Varanasi.
Malviya went to British government to support for the establishment of University. But he didn’t got any response for British Government.Then, on 22 November 1911 he registered the Hindu University Society to gather support and raise funds for university. In that Kashi Naresh Prabhu Narayan Singh and Maharaja Sir Rameshwar Bahadur of Raj Darbhanga supported him.
In October 1915, with support from Malviya’s allies in the Indian National Congress, the Banaras Hindu University Bill was passed by the Imperial Legislative Council.
In November 1915, Besant, Bhagwan Das, and other trustees of the Central Hindu School agreed to the government’s condition that the school become a part of the new university.
Malviya is silently structuring the path for Indian Independence and educating the Indian youth so that he can interact and understand world philosophy.
BHU was finally established in 1916, the first university in India that was the result of a private individual’s efforts. The foundation for the main campus of the university was laid by Lord Hardinge, the then Viceroy of India, on Vasant Panchami 4 February 1916.To promote the university’s expansion, Malviya invited eminent guest speakers such as Mahatma Gandhi, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Prof C. V. Raman, Dr. Prafulla Chandra Roy, Prof Sam Higginbottom, Sir Patrick Geddes, and Besant to deliver a series of what are now called The University Extension Lectures between 5–8 February 1916.
Sir Sunder Lal was appointed the first Vice Chancellor, and the university began its academic session the same month with classes initially held at the Central Hindu School in the Kamachha area, while the campus was being built on over 1,300 acres (5.3 km2) of land donated by the Kashi Naresh on the outskirts of the city.
Keeping with Malviya’s vision articulated in his 1911 plan, the Banaras Engineering College (BENCO) was among the first new academic colleges of the university to be established. Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV of Mysore, the first Chancellor of BHU, performed the opening ceremony of the BENCO workshop buildings on 17 January 1919, during his visit to preside over the first university convocation.
The university’s anthem, known as the Kulgeet, was composed by Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar.
