
Varanasi
is also a center of learning, especially for the study of Sanskrit, centered
at Benares College (1791) and maintained by the government. Banaras Hindu
University (1916) was the first denominational university in India under
private control; it is now nonsectarian.
"Older
than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice
as old as all of them put together"|
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