About Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya in , Haridwar

Gurukula Kangri University or Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya is a University in the city of Haridwar in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.HistoryGurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya was founded on 4 March 1902 by the Arya Samaj missionary Swami Shraddhanand, who was a follower of Dayanand Saraswati, with the sole aim to revive the ancient Indian gurukula system of education. It is on the bank of the Ganges about 6 km from Hardwar and about 200 km from Delhi. This institution was established with the objective of providing an indigenous alternative to Lord Macaulay’s education policy by imparting education in the areas of vedic literature, Indian philosophy, Indian culture, modern sciences, and research.It is a deemed to be university fully funded the by UGC/Govt. of India.The Arya Samaj advocated women’s education. As part of its policies for the upliftment of women in the country, Kanya Gurukula Campus, Dehradun was established in 1922 by Acharya Ramdevji as a second campus of women’s education. To give real shape to the dreams of Swami Shraddhanandaji, Kanya Gurukula Campus, Hardwar was established in 1993.Gurukula has witnessed many distinguished guests. A few of them are C.F. Andrews, Ramsay Mcdonald, Mahatma Gandhi, Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Dr Radha Krishnan, Sh.Jamnalal Bajaj, Dr. Munje, Sadhu Vaswani, Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, Smt. Indira Gandhi and Sh. Gyani Jail Singh, Sh. L.K. Advani and in 2011 Smt. Meira Kumar, speaker Lok Sabha visited.

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