Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith is a public university located in

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. Established on 10 February 1921 as Kashi Vidyapith and later renamed, it is administered under the state legislature of the government of Uttar Pradesh. It got University status in 1974 as

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and

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status in 2009 by The Uttar Pradesh State Universities (Amendment) Act, 2008 (act no. 6 of 2009). The university has more than 400+ affiliated colleges spread over six districts. It is one of the largest state universities in Uttar Pradesh, with hundreds of thousands of students, both rural and urban. It offers a range of professional and academic courses in arts, science, commerce, agriculture science, law, computing and management.

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Babu Shiv Prasad Gupta and Bhagwan Das established the university in Varanasi, on 10 February 1921, during the

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of the freedom struggle. Originally named Kashi Vidyapith, the university was renamed Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith in 1995. It was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi. Kashi Vidyapith was the action field of the Indian National Movement & a pilgrimage for the Socialists.

Alumni

Alumni of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith include: * Naheed Abidi, scholar and writer * Ramakrishna Hegde, former chief minister of Karnataka * B. V. Keskar, former Union Minister of India * Kalraj Mishra, former governor of Rajasthan * Rajaram, former national vice-president of BSP * Anant Maral Shastri, freedom fighter, writer and scholar * Bhola Paswan Shastri, former chief minister of Bihar *

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, former prime minister of India * Tribhuvan Narain Singh, former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh * Kamlapati Tripathi, former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh * Nivaan Sen, Indian Actor And Producer * Gopi Sonkar, Indian field hockey player

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