Malaviya,
Madanmohan A leading nationalist leader, prominent
educationist
and social reformer, he edited three journals (Hindustan,
Indian
Union and Abhyudaya) between
1885 and 1907, and joined the Indian
National
Congress becoming its president twice (1909 and 1918). His
greatest
achievement was the foundation of the Banaras Hindu University in
1915. In
religious matters, he was an orthodox Hindu but believed in the
suddhi (movement of reconversion) and the removal of untouchability. He
was thrice
elected the president of the Hindu Mahasabha.
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