INDIA - EDUCATION Banaras Hindu University (BHU) November 22, 1911:   On this day, Madan Mohan Malviya registered the Hindu University Society to gather support and raise funds for building the university. He spent the next 4 years gathering support and raising funds for the university. He sought and received early support from the Kashi Naresh Prabhu Narayan Singh and Maharaja Sir Rameshwar Singh Bahadur of Raj Darbhanga.