Prime Minister
Rajiv Gandhi said: "Acharya Narendra Dev was one of the greatest sons of India and the nation owes a great debt to him." The
Narendra Dev University of Agriculture and Technology was named in his honour in 1975. The
Acharya Narendra Dev College,
University of Delhi, was also named in his honour in 1991. In an emotional obituary in
Rajya Sabha,
Jawaharlal Nehru said: : "The death of Acharya Narendra Dev is something much bigger for many of us and, I think, for the country than just the passing away of an important person. He was a man of rare distinction—distinction in many fields—rare in spirit, rare in mind and intellect, rare in integrity of mind and otherwise. Only his body failed him. I do not know if there is any person present here in this House who was associated with him for a longer period than I was. Over 40 years ago we came together and we shared innumerable experiences together in the dust and heat of the struggle for independence and in the long silence of prison life where we spent—I forget now—four or five years together at various places, and inevitably got to know each other intimately; and so, for many of us, it is a grievous loss and a grievous blow, even as it is a grievous loss for our country. There is the public sense of loss and there is the private sense of loss and a feeling that somebody of rare distinction has gone and it will be very difficult to find his like again." He was also the first Principal of Lucknow Montessori Inter College and a professor at
Kashi Vidyapeeth. He died at the age of 67 in 19 February 1956 in
Erode,
Madras State. == References ==