Quotations on Mahamana

• "His achievements were many and varied, but he himself was greater than the greatest of his achievements."

  - K.M. Munshi,
  Ex-Governor, Uttar Pradesh and Founder of Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan

• "Whenever there was a crisis or some great national service to be done, he has proved that there is no greater patriot than he. In grave national events he has been only guided by a sense of national duty."

  - Maulana Hazrat Mohani,
  National Leader

• "Malaviyaji was a staunch Dharmic person. Dharma and communalism are not the same thing. A true dharmic person cannot be communalistic, he remains a gentleman."

  - Ishtiyak Hussain Quereshi,
  Vice Chancellor, Delhi University, 1947

• "I was a student of the university and studied staying near Malaviyaji. He had great love for me. There only I studied ancient Indian literature, which left a deep impression on my life. From here, I decided to fight for social equality and later for my country's freedom".

  - Babu Jagjivan Ram,
  Indian Independence Activist and Politician

• "I realized that orthodoxy was part and parcel of his very being and that it would have been quite wrong of anybody to try to dissuade him from following age-long Hindu tradition. In all other matters of social reform, Malaviyaji was most progressive and I was specially drawn to him by his indignation at the many disabilities from which Indian women suffered."

  - Rajkumari Amrit Kaur,
  Ex-Health Minister, India

• "He combined to a rare degree a synthesis of the ancient and the modern, a blending of the Eastern and the Western cultures. In his thoughts, his mode of life, his deep religious attitude, he sepitomised the 'Rishis' of ancient India. He was equally at ease in the midst of a gathering of orthodox Hindus or in the drawing room of a British Viceroy. His charm of manners, his sweet persuasive tongue and the crystal purity of his character never failed to create a deep sense of reverence in those who came in contact with him."

  -Maharaja Sir Umed Singh of Kotah,
  Ex-Pro Chancellor, B.H.U

• "Without exaggeration it may be said that Malaviyaji during his waking moments lives for India and if during sleep he dreams, they must be about India. India fills his whole being, her love is his inspiration and her service is the only object of his life."

  - Munshi Iswar Saran,
  Eminent Jurist

• "Patriotism, in the best sense of the term, a burning love for the country of his birth, and a very keen desire to ameliorate the conditions of his fellow-countrymen, have been the striking key-notes of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya's character as a public man."

  - Sir Sachidananda Sinha,
  Eminent Lawyer