Banaras Hindu University (BHU) is a collegiate,central,and research university located in Varanasi,Uttar Pradesh,India,and founded in 1916. The university incorporated the Central Hindu College,founded by Indian Home Rule-leaguer and Theosophist,Annie Besant in 1898. After Besant and her associates were marginalised,the university was established by Madan Mohan Malaviya with the support of the maharaja of Darbhanga Rameshwar Singh,the maharaja of Benares Prabhu Narayan Singh,and the lawyer Sunder Lal. With over 30,000 students,and 18,000 residing on campus,BHU is the largest residential university in Asia. The university is one of the eight public institutions declared as an Institute of Eminence by the Government of India. It is also one of the 12 institutions from India in BRICS Universities League,a consortium of leading research universities from BRICS countries.
Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi(IIT-BHU) is a public technical university located in Varanasi,Uttar Pradesh,India. Founded in 1919 as the Banaras Engineering College,it became the Institute of Technology,Banaras Hindu University in 1968. It was later designated an Indian Institute of Technology in 2012. IIT (BHU) Varanasi has 16 departments,3 inter-disciplinary schools and a Humanities &Social Sciences Section. It is located inside the Banaras Hindu University Campus.
Patcha Ramachandra Rao was a metallurgist and administrator. He has the unique distinction of being the only Vice-Chancellor (2002–05) of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) who was also a student (1963–68) and faculty (1964–92) at that institution. From 1992 to 2002,Rao was the Director of the National Metallurgical Laboratory,Jamshedpur. After his tenure as Vice-Chancellor of B.H.U.,in 2005,he took the reins of the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) as its first Vice-Chancellor. He was to serve DIAT until his superannuation in 2007. From 2007 till the end,Rao was a Raja Ramanna Fellow at the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials,in Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh.
The vice-chancellor of Banaras Hindu University (VC-BHU) is the chief administrator,and a full-time salaried officer of the Banaras Hindu University. The vice-chancellor derives their powers from sections 7(B) and 7(C) of the Banaras Hindu University Act and from the statutes of the said act.
Institute of Agricultural Sciences,Banaras Hindu University is one of India's premier agricultural colleges located in Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh state. It is one of the three institutes of the Banaras Hindu University.
Institute of Science,Banaras Hindu University (ISc-BHU) is a constituent institute of Banaras Hindu University,Varanasi,India which offers courses in Zoology,Botany,Biochemistry,Computer science,Geography,Mathematics,Physics,Geology,Geophysics,Chemistry,Statistics.
Sudhir Kumar Sopory is an Indian educationist,plant physiologist,scientist and former vice chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi. He is known to be the first to purify a protein kinase C activity from plants and is credited with the identification of topoisomerase as a substrate of protein kinase C. He is an elected Fellow of several major Indian science academies and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and is a recipient of many honours,including the 1987 Shanti Swarup Bhatangar Prize,the highest Indian award in the science and technology categories. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri,in 2007,for his contributions to science and technology.
Ram Harsh Singh is an Indian practitioner of the Ayurveda system of alternative medicine and the founder vice chancellor of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Rajasthan Ayurved University. An Emeritus Professor of Banaras Hindu University and a National Professor of the Ministry of AYUSH of the Government of India,he was conferred with the fourth highest civilian honour of Padma Shri,in 2016.
Onkar Nath Srivastava was an Indian material physicist,an Emeritus professor of Banaras Hindu University and the vice president for India and South Asia of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy,who was known for his contributions to the disciplines of nanotechnology and hydrogen energy. He was the author of two books and over 440 scientific papers and a recipient of several honors including Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize,the highest Indian award in the science and technology categories. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri,in 2016,for his contributions to science and engineering.
Sandeep Verma is an Indian bioorganic chemist and chemical biologist,and a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur (IITK). At IITK,he heads Sandeep Verma's Research Group in the areas of ordered peptide assemblies,metal-mediated nanoscale systems,programmable soft matter for neuronal regeneration,novel antimicrobials,and small molecule-stem cell modulation. He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA),the Indian Academy of Sciences,the National Academy of Sciences,India,and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research,awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,one of the highest Indian science awards,in 2010,for his contributions to Chemical Sciences.
Namvar Singh was an Indian literary critic,linguist,academician and theoretician. He received his doctorate degree from Banaras Hindu University where he also taught for some time. He served as a professor of Hindi literature in several other universities. He was the founder and first chairman of Jawaharlal Nehru University's Centre of Indian Languages and continued to remain as a professor emeritus after his retirement in 1992.
Saket Kushwaha is an Indian educationist and Agricultural economist. He is the Vice chancellor (VC) of Rajiv Gandhi University,Arunachal Pradesh and former Vice chancellor of Lalit Narayan Mithila University,Bihar. He is a professor of agricultural economics at the Banaras Hindu University,on lien.
Yedla C. Simhadri was an Indian academic and administrator. He has been the vice-chancellor of many Indian universities including Banaras Hindu University,Patna University,Andhra University,and Acharya Nagarjuna University.
The Banaras Hindu University Kulgeet (BHU Kulgeet),i.e.,Madhur Manohar Ateev Sundar (transl. sweet serene,infinitely beautiful) is a poem written by Indian chemist Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar while serving as professor at BHU. It has been composed by another professor at BHU,Pt. Omkar Nath Thakur.
Iqbal Narain (1930–1996) was an Indian academic,social scientist,and the 16th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University. He was the chief editor of Political Science Review,member of several government committees,and wrote articles in Economic and Political Weekly. He has also served as the Vice-chancellor of University of Rajasthan. Narain died in 1996.
Sunit Kumar Singh is an Indian molecular virologist and professor of Molecular Immunology &Virology at the Institute of Medical Sciences,Banaras Hindu University. Currently he is the director of the Dr B R Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research (ACBR),New Delhi.
Alok Kumar Rai is a professor of marketing at the Banaras Hindu University,India. Currently,he is the 41st vice-chancellor of University of Lucknow. He is one of the youngest vice-chancellors of Lucknow University.
Giridhar Malaviya is the chancellor of Banaras Hindu University and a retired judge of Allahabad High Court.
C.S. Jha was an Indian engineer,professor,and academic administrator. He served as the 18th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University from 1991 to 1993.
