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Varanasi (Hindi pronunciation: [ʋaːˈraːɳəsi], [a] [b] also Benares, Banaras Hindustani pronunciation: [bəˈnaːrəs] [c] [12] [13] [14] or Kashi [d] [15]) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.
Raja Chait Singh of Benares State The Maharaja's Fort and palace in Ramnagar Maharaja of Benares with his courtiers in the 1870s. Banaras State, earlier Benares Estate, [1] was an estate, or hereditary jagir, comprising the family domains of the Maharaja of Benares—under the Nawabs of Oudh, East India Company rule, and the British Raj—that from 1911 to 1948 was recognized as a princely state.
The Benares, as the ship was known, [1] was provided to the British Government in the summer of 1940 by her owners—Ellerman City & Hall Lines—for use as an evacuation ship for children, accompanied by the SS City of Simla and the SS City of Paris. [1]
SS City of Benares was a British steam turbine ocean liner, built for Ellerman Lines by Barclay, Curle & Co of Glasgow in 1936. [1] During the Second World War , City of Benares was used as an evacuee ship to transport 90 children from Britain to Canada .
Ramnagar Fort and its museum are the repository of the history of the kings of Benares and since the 18th century has been the home of Kashi Naresh. [2] Even today the Kashi Naresh is deeply revered by the people of Benares. [2] He is the religious head and the people of Benares consider him the incarnation of Shiva. [2]
Varanasi, also known as Benares, [1] Banaras (Banāras), or Kashi (Kāśī), is the holiest of the seven sacred cities in Hinduism and Jainism, and played an important role in the development of Buddhism. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
The Benares Hindu University Bill was passed on 1 October 1915 and assented by the Viceroy and Governor-General of India on the same day. BHU was finally established in 1916, the first university in India that was the result of people's efforts. [38]
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