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Banaras Hindu University - Introduction

IAST:kashi Hindu vishwavidyalaya in Hindi) is also known as Banaras Hindu University (BHU). previously Central Hindu College, is a collegiate, central, and research university situated in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India (IPA: kai hindu vivvidyaly). It was founded in 1916 by Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, British theosophist and Home Rule League founder Annie Besant, Maharaja of Darbhanga Rameshwar Singh, Maharaja of Banaras Prabhu Narayan Singh, Sunder Lal, etc. The largest residential institution in Asia, BHU has over 30,000 students, 18,000 of whom live on campus. The university is one of the eight public institutions that the Indian government has designated as Institutes of Eminence.
In the past and present, BHU has been referred to by a variety of names. Banaras University, Benares Hindu University, and Hindu University are a few of the English titles.

Information of Banaras Hindu University
Other names
BHU
Former name
Central Hindu College
MottoIAST: Vidyayā’mritamașnute
Motto in English
“Knowledge imparts immortality”
TypePublic research university
Established4 February 1916; 106 years ago
Founders
  • Madan Mohan Malaviya
  • Annie Besant
  • Rameshwar Singh
  • Prabhu Narayan Singh
  • Sunder Lal
Academic affiliations
  • AIU
  • UGC
  • ICAR
Budget₹17,096,414,950.60 (US$210 million)[1]
ChancellorGiridhar Malaviya
Vice-ChancellorSudhir K. Jain
Students30,698
Undergraduates15,746
Postgraduates7,557
Doctoral students
4,555
Location
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

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India

25.2677°N 82.9891°ECoordinates: 25.2677°N 82.9891°E

CampusUrban
LanguageHindi, English
AnthemKulgeet – Madhur Manohar
Colours    BHU Saffron, BHU Blue, BHU Grey/Silver
MascotGoddess Saraswati
Websitebhu.ac.in

Faculties Of Banaras Hindu University

  • Faculty of Arts
  • Faculty of Commerce
  • Faculty of Education
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Management Studies
  • Faculty of Performing Arts
  • Faculty of Science
  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Sanskrit Vidya Dharma Vijnan Sankaya
  • Faculty of Visual Arts
  • Mahaila Maha Vidyalaya

Top 10 Banaras Hindu University ( BHU ) Notable Alumni

  • Colin Turnbull
  • Jayant Narlikar
  • Robert M. Pirsig
  • Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
  • Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala
  • Harivanshrai Bachchan
  • Sandeep Pandey
  • Bhupen Hazarika
  • Ahmad Hasan Dani
  • Ved Prakash Goyal

List of Famous Banaras Hindu University - BHU Notable Alumni

  •  Ashok Agarwal,
  • Rakhaldas
  • Bandyopadhyay,
  • Harivansh Rai
  • Bachchan,
  • Kamalesh Chandra
  • Chakrabarty,
  • Ahmad Hasan Dani,
  • Madhav Sadashiv
  • Golwalkar,
  • Kota Harinarayana,
  • Bhupen Hazarika,
  • Kothapalli
  • Jayashankar,
  • Krishan Kant,
  • Shashi P. Karna,
  • Jagdish Kashyap,
  • Akhlesh Lakhtakia,
  • Basanti Dulal
  • Nagchaudhuri,
  • Jayant Vishnu
  • Narlikar,
  •  A. K. Narain,
  • Raj Narain,
  • Veena Pandey,
  • T. V. Ramakrishnan,
  • Amara Ranatunga,
  • C.N.R Rao,
  • Narla Tata Rao,
  • Patcha Ramachandra
  • Rao,
  • Harkishan Singh,
  • Manick Sorcar,
  • Prem Saran Satsangi,
  • Tapan Singhel,
  • Shyam Sunder
  • Surolia,
  • Satish K. Tripathi.
  • Amongst its famous
  • international students are Robert M. Pirsig
  • and Koenraad Elst

Chancellors of Banaras Hindu University

Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University

Giridhar Malviya
Giridhar Malviya, a retired judge from the Allahabad High Court, was appointed as the next chancellor of BHU in November 2018. The grandson of Mahamana, the founder of the university, is Giridhar Malviya.

List of Vice-Chancellors of Banaras Hindu University

Vice Chancellors of BHU

  1. Rai Bahadur Sir Sunder Lal (1 April 1916 – 13 April 1918)
  2. Sir P.S. Sivaswami Iyer (13 April 1918 – 8 May 1919)
  3. Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (29 November 1919 – 6 September 1938)
  4. Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (17 September 1939 – 16 January 1948)
  5. Amarnath Jha (27 February 1948 – 5 December 1948)
  6. Pandit Govind Malaviya (6 December 1948 – 21 November 1951)
  7. Acharya Narendra Dev (6 December 1951 – 31 May 1954)
  8. Sir C.P. Ramaswami Iyer (1 July 1954 – 2 July 1956)
  9. V.S. Jha (3 July 1956 – 16 April 1960)
  10. N.H. Bhagwati (16 April 1960 – 15 April 1966)
  11. Triguna Sen (9 October 1966 – 15 March 1967)
  12. A.C. Joshi (1 September 1967 – 31 July 1969)
  13. Kalu Lal Shrimali (1 November 1969 – 31 January 1977)
  14. M.L. Dhar (2 February – 15 December 1977)


15. Hari Narain (15 May 1978 – 14 May 1981)
16. Iqbal Narain (19 October 1981 – 29 April 1985)
17. R.P. Rastogi (30 April 1985 – 29 April 1991)
18. C.S. Jha (1 May 1991 – 14 June 1993)
19. D.N. Mishra (8 February 1994 – 27 June 1995)
20. Hari Gautam (2 August 1995 – 25 August 1998)|
21. Y.C. Simhadri (31 August 1998 – 20 February 2002
22. Patcha Ramachandra Rao (20 February 2002 – 19 February 2005)
23. Panjab Singh (3 May 2005 – 7 May 2008)
24. D.P. Singh (8 May 2008 – 21 August 2011)
25. Lalji Singh (22 August 2011 – 21 August 2014)
26. Girish Chandra Tripathi (25 November-To Date)

First Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University

Dr. Sir Sunder Lal
The Banaras Hindu University Act of 1915 went into effect on April 1st, 1916, as a result of a notification that was published in the Indian Gazette on March 25, 1916. First Vice-Chancellor appointed was Dr. Sir Sunder Lal.

Early life and profession

On May 21, 1857, Rai Bahadur Sir Sunder Lal CIE was born at Jaspur, close to Nainital.
He enrolled in Augustus Harrison’s Muir Central College in Allahabad in 1876. Pandit Sunder Lal passed the High Court’s Vakil’s Examination in 1880 while still an undergraduate, and on December 21 of that same year, he was enrolled as a Vakil. He worked for the High Court of Allahabad. He was promoted to the rank and standing of Advocate by the High Court in 1896.
In 1905, the title “Rai Bahadur” was bestowed upon him. In 1907, he was named a CIE. [1] He agreed to serve for a short time on the bench of the Lucknow Judicial Commissioner’s Court in 1909, and in 1914, he served briefly as an Allahabad High Court judge.
Appointed to the Allahabad Council of Law Reporting; elected to the Allahabad Court Board in 1893 to represent Vakils; admitted to the bar in 1893; and a fellow of the university since 1888 Member of the Syndicate since 1895, University was represented in the U.P. Legislative Council in 1904, 1906, and 1909; one of the MacDonnell Boarding House Secretaries in Allahabad; Offg. Additional Judicial Commissioner in Oudh in 1909; Vice-Chairman of the U.P. Exhibition in 1910–11; acting Judicial Commissioner for 5 months; Judge, High Court, N.W.P. in 1914; owner of the largest private library in the Location: Allahabad.
He was appointed as Allahabad University’s first Indian vice chancellor in 1906. In 1912 and 1916, he was reappointed to that position.
He was appointed the institution’s first vice chancellor in 1916. (BHU). On the campus of BHU, he is commemorated by the Sir Sunderlal Hospital of the Institute of Medical Sciences.
A knighthood was bestowed upon Sunder Lal on February 21st, 1917. Age 61, he passed away in Allahabad on February 13, 1918.