Kavin raj biography of mahatma hansraj

Indian educationist

For other uses, see Hansraj (disambiguation).

Mahatama Hansraj was an Indian educationist and a follower of Arya Samaj movement founder, Swami Dayanand.

He founded, with Gurudatta Vidhyarthi, the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic Schools System (D.A.V.) in Lahore on 1 June , where the first D.A.V. school was set up in memory of Dayanand who had died three years earlier.

He was also a compatriot of freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai.

Hansraj served as the principal of D.A.V.^[1] College for 25 years, and committed the rest of his life in social service. A number of Dayanand Anglo-vedic educational institutions were established.

Kavin raj biography of mahatma hansraj

Today D.A.V. runs over colleges, schools, professional and technical institutions.

Early life and education

Hansraj was born in Bajwara, Hoshiarpur district, Punjab, British India into a Punjabi HinduKhatri family on 19 April ^[2] His father died before Hansraj was 19 and thereafter he was looked after and ed