Established on November 7, 1938, on the promising Kartik Sud Purnima, Samvat 1995, about 10 years before the appearance of Independence, with the favors of Mahatma Gandhi and co-activity and backing of a few recognized stalwarts of India's opportunity development, the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has developed, from little beginnings, into a complete all-India scholarly, social and instructive development. It is absolutely unopinionated. 

Its organizer, Kulapati Dr. K.M. Munshi, viewed the Bhavan as an 'Undertaking in Faith', a confidence from quite a while ago, present and future. It is additionally a confidence in India's kin who have a rich and whole social legacy. Consistent with its objective of reviving Dharma or the Moral Law in its three-overlap parts of Truth, Love and Beauty - Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram - the Bhavan is unendingly endeavoring to convey forward India's imperishable message of Faith, Self-control and Dedication - Shraddha, Samyama and Samarpana. The Bhavan accepts that there are components in all societies which rise above all boundaries and sews individuals together. Its optimal is: Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: "The World Is One Family." Its maxim is Aa no bhadraah kratavo yantu vishwatah: "Let respectable contemplations come to us from each side." 

During the most recent six decades and a greater amount of its reality, the Bhavan has bloomed into a regularly developing, willful, objective national development with a global standpoint, gave to life, writing and culture. Bhavan's projects spread "all parts of life from the support to the grave and past… .it fills a developing vacuum in present day life" as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru saw when he previously visited the Bhavan in 1950.