Manava Bharati was established in 1941 by Late Dr. Durga Prasad Pandey on his return from Europe with the blessing of the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi and the first non-European Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
The new branch at Nehru Colony, Dehradun was set up with the vision in mind to broaden the present horizons of education and find more depth than just rote learning and spoon fed knowledge.