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Kanya Maha Vidyalaya (KMV) is a women's college located in Jalandhar, Punjab, India, offering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and diplomas. It has approximately 2500 students and a campus of around . The current president of the college is Chander Mohan senior journalist. The pioneer in women education and women liberation in India, Kanya Maha Vidyalaya finds mention in the book Arya Dharam by an American scholar, W. Jones. Tranquil and serene, dazzling in pristine white, K.M.V. is the sovereign shrine of women emancipation, as well as a sacred monument of patriotism. Its history is like a sacred pilgrimage into the past. It is not simply a plain building of bricks and stones, but each brick is bathed by the sweat and blood of innumerable patriots. The very atmosphere of the building breathes the spirit of sacrifice, devotion and liberal education. It is an institution steeped in rich antiquity. A glimpse at its glorious past takes us more than hundred years back. During the British rule, the country was also reeling under the burden of an orthodox, retrogressive society, where women were the targets of infinite atrocities like Sati Pratha, Child Marriages, Pardah System. The Vedic women, emancipated and educated, fully disappeared under the shroud of pseudo-social values and baseless norms. It was in this suffocating atmosphere that great men like Raja Rammohan Roy, Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar,Swami Dayanand Sarswati et al began to think and feel about the unfortunate women. They believed that only if the other half of humanity, the women, are educated and liberated, the nation can progress in the true sense of the term. ==History== The school was established in Jullunder (Punjab, India) in 1890 (some sources say 1886) as Arya Kanya Pathshala, (translated as Arya Girls School) by Lala Dev Raj and Lala Munshi Ram (later Swami Shraddhanand). It was exclusively for girls, being the first school for girls in Jullunder which was 'not Christian' (''literal translation from source''). Lala Dev Raj Ji took up the cudgels on behalf of the hapless, illiterate women relegated mercilessly to the background. He fought tooth and nail to educate women, to make them self reliant and independent. As Lala Dev Raj went from house to house to bring the girls to the Vidyalaya, he was rebuked and driven off by the parents, for whom women-education was an untenable idea. But Lalaji was an indomitable man. His shool started with 7 or 8 girls students in 1891 of whom 3 belonged to the families of the founders. To attract more students, he gave them education absolutely free. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kanya Maha Vidyalaya」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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