Toword the end of the nineteenth century when india lay in a socio-plitical ferment, it was maharishi dayanand saraswati, the great torchbeares of india renaissance, who founded the arya samaj with a call “BACK TO VEDAS”. He gave the guiding principles of the arya samaj & also propounded the national system of education . his dream was realized when the first DAV school at lahorewa opened in 1886 with mahatma hans raj ji as honorary headmaster. After independence it was shifted to ambala city andmany more schools and colleges were started.