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{{Infobox university
|name = Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University
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| caption = Faculty of Arts<br/><small>(seen from North-West)</small>
|established = {{start date|1898}}
|type = [[Faculty (division)|Faculty]]
|parent = [[Banaras Hindu University]]
|academic_affiliation = [[Banaras Hindu University]]
|dean = Vijay Bahadur Singh<ref>[http://www.bhu.ac.in/arts/dean.php Faculty of Arts, BHU (Dean)] ''bhu.ac.in''</ref>
|city = [[Varanasi]]
|state = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
|country = [[India]]
|coordinates = {{coord|25.26987|N|82.995167|E|type:edu|format=dms|display=inline}}
|campus = [[Urban areas|Urban]]
|website = [http://www.bhu.ac.in/arts/ Faculty of Arts]
| image_name = Faculty of Arts, BHU.JPG
|affiliations = [[University Grants Commission (India)|UGC]]
}}

'''Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University''' is a [[Faculty (division)|faculty]] in the [[Banaras Hindu University]], [[Varanasi]], [[India]] which offers courses in History, Culture, Philosophy, Languages, Literature along with various Professional and Vocational courses. It was founded in 1898 and is the oldest and largest faculty in the Banaras Hindu University. Faculty of Arts was formerly known as the [[Central Hindu College]] (1898–1916). In 1916, the [[Banaras Hindu University]] grew around the "nucleus" of the Faculty of Arts.<ref name="About Faculty of Arts">{{cite news|title=About Faculty of Arts|publisher=BHU website|access-date=18 May 2015|url= http://www.bhu.ac.in/arts/}}</ref>

==History==
Formally known as [[Central Hindu College]], The Faculty of Arts is the oldest and largest faculty in the [[Banaras Hindu University]]. It was founded in 1898 by Dr. [[Annie Besant]] and became the main centre and the core of [[Banaras Hindu University]] in 1916 by [[Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya]]. THe Faculty of Arts was "Mother Faculty" out of which many other faculties and departments of the university grew.<ref name="About Faculty of Arts"/>

==Organization==
Faculty of Arts' administrative head is a [[Dean (education)|dean]]. The [[Dean (education)|dean]] is responsible for all aspects of the Faculty's operations, including budgets, administration, planning, support services, faculty appointments, curricula and student affairs. The [[Dean (education)|dean]] is appointed by and reports to the [[Chancellor (education)#India|Vice-Chancellor]] of the university.

There are 23 different departments in the Faculty of Arts that offer [[Academic certificate|Certificate courses]], Special courses, Undergraduate diploma, [[Undergraduate education#Indian system|Undergraduate degree]] (UG), advanced [[Postgraduate diploma]], [[Master's degree|Postgraduate degree]] (PG) and Doctorate in following three categories;<ref name="About Faculty of Arts"/><ref name="Courses">{{cite news|title=Courses|publisher=Official website|access-date=18 May 2015|url=http://www.bhu.ac.in/course/ugpg.pdf}}</ref>
# History, Culture and Philosophy
# Language and Literature
# Professional and Vocational courses

==Departments==
{{unreferenced section|date=September 2017}}
* Bhojpuri Adhayan Kendra
* Bharat Adhyayan Kendra
* Department of English
* Department of Bengali
* Department of French Studies
* Department of Hindi
* Department of German Studies
* Department of Marathi
* Department of Foreign Languages
* Department of Sanskrit
* Department of Linguistics
* Department of Telugu
* Department of AIHC & Archaeology
* Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies
* Department of Philosophy and Religion
* Department of Urdu
* Department of Physical Education
* Department of Indian Languages
* Department of Journalism & Mass Communication
* Department of Arabic
* Department of Library & Information Science
* Department of Persian
* Malaviya Moolya Anusheelan Kendra
* Department of History of Art<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bhu.ac.in/arts/|title=Arts Faculty website}}</ref>

==Notable alumni==
{{alumni|date=September 2017}}
Notable alumni of the faculty of arts include:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Course !! Subject!! Year !! Occupation !! Remarks
|-
| [[Ahmad Hasan Dani]] || [[Master of Arts|MA]] || [[Sanskrit]] || 1944 || Pakistani intellectual, [[archaeologist]], historian & [[linguist]] || First Muslim graduate of [[Banaras Hindu University|BHU]]<ref name="Obituary:Ahmad Hasan Dani">{{cite news|title=Alumni:Ahmad Hasan Dani|work=The Guardian|access-date=20 May 2015|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/mar/31/ahmad-hasan-dani}}</ref>
|-
| [[Anant Sadashiv Altekar]] || – || – || – || Historian, [[archaeologist]] and [[numismatist]] ||
|-
| [[Awadh Kishore Narain]] || [[Master of Arts|MA]] || [[Ancient Indian History & Culture|AIHC]] || 1947 || Indian historian, [[archaeologist]] & [[numismatist]] ||<ref name="Alumni:Awadh Kishore Narain">{{cite news|title=Alumni:Awadh Kishore Narain |publisher=[[Banaras Hindu University]] website |access-date=20 May 2015 |url=http://www.bhu.ac.i-lumni/aknairn.html }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
|-
| [[B. D. Lakshman]] || [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] || – || – || [[Indians in Fiji|Indo-Fijian]] politician, union leader & businessman || –
|-
| [[Baldev Upadhyaya]] || [[Master of Arts|MA]] || [[Sanskrit]] || 1922 || [[Hindi]] & [[Sanskrit]] scholar, literary historian, essayist & critic || [[Padma Bhushan]] awardee<ref>Baldev Upadhyaya Felicitation Volume, (Ed.) G.C. Tripathi, Journal of the [[Ganganath Jha]], Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Allahabad, 1983.</ref>
|-
| [[Colin Turnbull]] || [[Master of Arts|MA]] || [[Indian Religion & Philosophy]] || 1947 || British-American [[anthropologist]] ||<ref name="Alumni:Colin Turnbull">{{cite news|title=Alumni:Colin Turnbull|publisher=Official website of the biography|access-date=20 May 2015|url=http://www.colinturnbull.com/}}</ref>
|-
| [[Kashinath Singh]] || [[PhD]] || [[Hindi]] || 1965 || Indian writer and scholar of [[Hindi]] language || [[Sahitya Akademi Award]]ee<ref name="Alumni:Kashinath Singh">{{cite news|title=Alumni:Kashinath Singh|publisher=Samanvay Indian Languages Festival|access-date=20 May 2015|url=http://www.samanvayindianlanguagesfestival.org/2012/kashinath-singh/}}</ref>
|-
| [[Koenraad Elst]] || [[Master of Arts|MA]] || [[Indology]] || 1992 || [[Oriental studies|Orientalist]] and Indologist || –
|-
| [[Kuber Nath Rai]] || – || [[Hindi literature|Hindi]] & [[Sanskrit]] || – || [[Hindi literature]] & [[Sanskrit]] scholar || –
|-
| [[Lal Mani Joshi]] || [[Master of Arts|MA]] || [[Pali]] || 1964 || Buddhist scholar || –
|-
| [[Liu Anwu]] || [[Master of Arts|MA]] || [[Hindi]] || 1958 || Chinese translator || –
|-
| [[Mandagere Subbarao Krishnamurthy|Ma Su Krishnamurthy]] || [[Master of Arts|MA]] || [[Hindi]] || 1962 || [[Kannada language|Kannada]] and [[Hindi language|Hindi]] writer || –
|-
| [[Manu Bhandari]] || [[Master of Arts|MA]] || [[Hindi]] || 1953 || [[Hindi language|Hindi]] writer || –
|-
| [[Paragu]] || – || – || – || Burmese writer || –
|-
| [[Prithvi Nath Kaula]] || – || – || – || [[Library science|Library and Information Sciences]] specialist || [[Padma Shri]] awardee.<ref name="Alumni:Prithvi Nath Kaula">{{cite news|title=Alumni:Prithvi Nath Kaula|publisher=IT BHU Global|access-date=24 May 2015|url=http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2009/08/prof_prithvi_na.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524213128/http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2009/08/prof_prithvi_na.php|archive-date=24 May 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| [[Rajbali Pandey]] || [[PhD]] || – || – || Indian writer and author ||
|-
| [[Ram Krishna Singh]] || [[Master of Arts|MA]] || [[English language|English]] || 1972 || Reviewer, critic and contemporary poet || –
|-
| [[Rewa Prasad Dwivedi]] || [[Master of Arts|MA]] || [[Sanskrit]] || 1962 || [[Sanskrit]] scholar and poet ||<ref name=enc>[[#enc|Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Sanskrit Literature (2003)]], pp. 427–429</ref>
|-
| [[Robert M. Pirsig]] || [[Master of Arts|MA]] || [[Eastern Philosophy|Eastern Philosophy & culture]] || 1954 || American writer and philosopher || –
|-
| [[Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena]] || - || - || - || Hindi writer, poet, columnist and playwright || –
|-
| [[Satya Vrat Shastri]] || [[PhD]] || [[Sanskrit]] || - || [[Sanskrit]] scholar, writer, grammarian and poet || –
|-
| [[Shankar Dayal Singh]] || [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] || - || - || Indian Politician || –
|-
|[[Sita Ram Chaturvedi]]
| -
| -
| -
|Indian educator, dramatist and scholar of [[Hindi]] and [[Sanskrit]] language and literature
| -
|}

== See also ==
*[[List of educational institutions in Varanasi]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|colwidth=50em}}

==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.bhu.ac.in/}}

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