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Banaras Hindu University (BHU), is a Central university, located in Varanasi,India, which is also the largest residential university in Asia, with over 12,000students living on its ca!us" BHU was #ounded in 1$1% &y 'andit adanohan alviya and under the 'arliaentary legislation, B"H"U" Act 1$1*"

+he ca!us s!read over 2%0 acre (*"* -.) ca!us was &uilt on land donated&y then /ashi aresh" It has 10 teaching de!artents and ore than ** hostels#or &oys and girls" +he total enrollent in the University stands at ust over1*000, including students #ro all over India and a&road" 3everal o# its colleges,including engineering (I+4BHU), science, linguistics, law and edicine (I34BHU), 5aculty o# anageent 3tudies, are ran-ed aongst the &est in India"67,out o# these I+4BHU is set to &ecoe Indias 1%th II+, II+4BHU #ro the acadeicsession 2010 " BHU is ran-ed as the second &est university in the #ield o#research in India a#ter 8elhi University"It is also the &est university o# India on all!araeters as !er the India +oday aga9ine dated 2nd :une 2010"+he ain#orce &ehind this University was 'andit adan ohan alviya" Born in an

educated orthodo; Hindu #aily at 'rayag (Allaha&ad) in 1

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University o# India" In 1$0, she su&itted a eorandu #or the grant o# ?oyalCharter #or the esta&lishent o# the University" In A!ril 1$11, Annie Besant and'andit adan ohan alaviya et and decided to unite their #orces and wor- #ora coon Hindu University at Varanasi"6$7 A society under the nae, +he HinduUniversity 3ociety, was #ored and registered in 8ece&er, 1$11 with aharaa

3ir ?aeshwar 3ingh Bahadur o# 8ar&hanga o# as its 'resident and 3ir 3undaral, a :udge o# the Allaha&ad High Court, as its 3ecretary" Its o##ice was o!enedat Allaha&ad on 1 :anuary 1$12" +he then British >overnent o# India hadre@uired that a su o# ru!ees #i#ty la-hs ust &e collected &e#ore the scheecould &e !ut into e##ect" By the &eginning o# the year 1$1*, this target wasachieved with the great dedication and e##orts o# 'andit adan ohan alviya"

Another !re4condition set &y the >overnent o# India as !er the then e;istingrules o# Indian Universities was that the Central Hindu College should &ecoe a!art o# the University" Annie Besant, 8r" Bhagwan 8as and their #ellow +rusteeso# the Central Hindu College agreed to hand over the institution to &e ade thenucleus o# the !ro!osed University" +he charge o# the Central Hindu College was

handed over to the Hindu University 3ociety on 2 ove&er 1$1*"

+he Banaras Hindu University Bill was introduced in the I!erial egislativeCouncil in arch, 1$1* &y 3ir Harcourt Butler" +he Bill was re#erred to a 3electCoittee and it cae u! alongwith the re!ort o# the 3elect Coittee #or #inal reading&e#ore the I!erial egislative Council" +he Council !assed the &ill on 1 cto&er 1$1* and thesae day it received the assent o# the >overnor4>eneral and Viceroy o# India which ade it an

Act" n 5e&ruary 1$1% ord Hardinge, the then >overnor4>eneral and Viceroy laid the#oundation stone o# the University" A series o# lectures which have coe to &e -nown as theUniversity D;tension ectures were delivered on the *th, %th, th and < 5e&ruary 1$1% &ydistinguished s!ecialists li-e 3ir :"C" Bose, 8r" 'C" ?ay, 8r" Harold ann, 'ro#" 3aHiggin&otto, rs" Annie Besant, 'ro#" C" V" ?aan aong others" ahata >andhi who had

ust returned to India #ro 3outh A#rica and had coe to Banaras to attend the 5oundation stone

laying cereony addressed his #irst !u&lic lecture in India on % 5e&ruary" +he closing #unctionswere held on < 5e&ruary 1$1%, on the day Vasant 'anchai"By a oti#ication !u&lished In the>a9ette o# India on 2* arch 1$1% the Banaras Hindu University Act o# 1$1* was &rought into#orce #ro 1 A!ril 1$1%" 8r" 3ir 3undar al was a!!ointed the #irst Vice4Chancellor"

+he University started #unctioning #ro 1 cto&er 1$1 with the Central Hindu College at/aaccha, Varanasi as its #irst constituent college" In :uly, 1$1< the College o# riental learningand +heology was o!ened and in August 1$1