Explanation:

Explanation :

Madan Mohan Malaviya

• He was a great educationist, pioneer, an eloquent rhetorician, and a national leader.
• He took part in numerous activities like the freedom struggle movements, promotion of industries, the economic and social development of the country, education, religion, social service, development of Hindi language and many other issues of national importance throughout his life.
• He was given the title of ‘Mahamana’ by Mahatma Gandhi and the second President of India, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan gave him the status of a ‘Karmayogi’.
• In the freedom struggle, he was midway between the Liberals and the Nationalists, the Moderates and the Extremists, as the followers of Gokhale and Tilak were respectively called.
• In 1930, when Mahatma Gandhi launched the Salt Satyagraha and the Civil Disobedience Movement, he participated in it and courted arrest.
• Remembered for his role in ending the Indian indenture system, especially in the Caribbean.
  • Indentured labour was a system of bonded labour that was instituted following the abolition of slavery in 1833.
  • Indentured labour were recruited to work on sugar, cotton and tea plantations, and rail construction projects in British colonies in West Indies, Africa and SouthEast Asia.
• Apprehensive of the possibility of the British completely damming the flow of Ganga at Bhimgoda in Haridwar, he set up the Ganga Mahasabha in 1905.
• He was a social reformer and a successful legislator, serving as a member of the Imperial Legislative Council for 11 years (1909–20).
• Popularized the term ‘Satyamev Jayate’. However, the phrase originally belongs to the Mundaka Upanishad. The term now is the national motto of India.
• Devnagri was introduced in the British-Indian courts because of Malviya’s efforts with the British government.
• Worked immensely for Hindu-Muslim unity. He is known to have given famous speeches on communal harmony.
  • He was expelled from the Brahmin community for expressing his views on caste discrimination and Brahmanical patriarchy.
• He helped establish the Hindu Mahasabha (“Great Society of Hindus”) in 1915.
• He founded the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in 1916.