Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith is a public university located in

Varanasi Varanasi (, also Benares, Banaras ) or Kashi, is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.* * * * The city has a syncretic tradition of I ...

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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

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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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Shiv Prasad Gupta Shiv Prasad Gupta (28 June 1883 – 24 April 1944) was a visionary, philanthropist, a leader of the Indian Freedom Movement and the founder of the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth. Though belonging to a very wealthy industrialist and "Jam ...

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 Naheed Abidi is an Indian scholar of Sanskrit and writer. In 2014, she was honoured with Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for her contributions to the field of literature by the Government of India. She has received many awards and ...

, scholar and writer *

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, former chief minister of Karnataka *

B. V. Keskar Balakrishna Vishwanath Keskar (1903 – 28 August 1984) was an Indian politician and Minister of Information and Broadcasting (India), Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting between 1952 and 1962. Remembered for creating the Vrinda Vady ...

, former Union Minister of India *

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, 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 Tribhuvan Narain Singh (8 August 1904 – 3 August 1982) was an Indian politician and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He remained Chief Minister from 18 October 1970 till 4 April 1971. Singh later served as Governor of West Bengal from the la ...

, former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh *

Kamlapati Tripathi Kamalapati Tripathi (3 September 1905 – 8 October 1990) was an Indian politician, writer, journalist, and freedom fighter. He was a senior Indian National Congress leader from Varanasi constituency. He served as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh ...

, former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh *

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, Indian Actor And Producer *

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