Biography

न त्वहं कामये राज्यं न स्वर्गं नापुनर्भवम्।
कामये दुःखतप्तानां प्राणिनामार्तिनाशनम्।।

(I have no desire for Kingdom, no desire for Heaven, no desire for Moksha.

The only desire I have is to mitigate the sorrow of the living beings who are grief- stricken.)

Imbibing these words of Ved Vyas to the core of his heart, Mahamana Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya lived an extraordinary life of devotion and sacrifice for the nation and society. He will be remembered as the architect of the first national educational policy, the founder and the ideal Vice Chancellor of the Asia's largest center of learning - Banaras Hindu University, the premier institution that initiated agricultural, scientific and industrial revolution through education Malaviyaji was the topmost leader of Indian politics who gave expression, loud and clear, to the aspirations of the Indian people in the Provincial Assembly and the Central Council continuously for 30 years, the grandfather of Indian National Congress who accelerated and brought the independence struggle to fruition, the exponent of the reawakening of the Indian culture and also of the Hindi movement, the great social reformer who saved millions of untouchables from conversion through a novel and revolutionary experiment of initiating them into holy mantras and bringing them into the position of being a beneficiary of the social and educational developments, a great patriot who strove to revive the Hindu way of life and bring about harmony between the Hindus and the Muslims, a very effective advocate who got the 156 accused sentenced to death in the Chaurichaura episode set free, a thinker who introduced novel and original principles in the field of journalism, 'a silver tongued orator', the greatest mendicant - 'the Prince of Beggars' - in the world of education, an epoch making modern rishi regarded as a living legend for sixty long years striving for the regeneration of national pride, a spokesman of humanitarian religion who invigorated the exploited and enfeebled India and gave it a sense of valour and honour through a continued struggle for seventy years of his life. Malaviyaji was hailed by Jawaharlal Nehru as "a giant among men, one of those who laid the foundation of the modern Indian nationalism and, year by year; brick by brick and stone by stone, the noble edifice of Indian freedom"