DAV College

Hailed and venerated as the Heritage College of the DAVs, this institution is very close to the DAV world-view and its historiography. DAV College (Lahore), Ambala City, has a sacrosanct and hallowed history dating back to 1886 when it was established at Lahore with Mahatma Hans Raj as its honorary Principal. The year 1886 proved a watershed year as the institutionalization of college education in India by the DAVs had a historically significant ripple-effect which ultimately led to the birth and growth of a long chain of centres of higher education in India. Mahatma Hans Raj served this institution with humility, dedication and a missionary spirit. This DAV College in particular is a matrix of the Dayanand Anglo Vedic renaissance which played a stellar role in rejuvenating society intellectually, emotionally, socially and spiritually. Ever since its inception, this nodal college has been accoladed and honoured as a signifier of the core ideology of the DAV macrocosm.