page_title: Faculty of Law, Banaras Hindu University
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Faculty of Law, Banaras Hindu University / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Main gate of Benaras Hindu University.
context_page_description: Faculty of Law, Banaras Hindu University is a faculty in the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India which offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctorate courses in Legal education. It was founded in 1922.
context_section_description: Started in 1922, Faculty of Law was one of the first faculties in the Banaras Hindu University. Initially started as an evening college in two borrowed rooms in the Faculty of Arts, the Law Faculty only had part-time teachers; mostly advocates from Allahabad High Court.
  Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya served as the first dean of the faculty for three years.
caption: Main gate of Benaras Hindu University
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