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  The inspiring call given Golwalkar are as follow: “I therefore, request you to stand up for our great Cause. Truth and Justice are with us. And where Truth exists the Almighty showers His Blessings on it. With absolute faith in Him and unswerving devotion to our holy Motherland let us start on our peaceful campaign for vindicating the justice of our Cause. We stand for Truth. We stand for justice. We stand for our National Rights. With implicit faith in the Just God of Truth let us march on. This is a battle between Dharma and Adharma, justice and injustice, large hearts and small minds, love and hate. Victory is certain, because God is with Dharma and victory is with God. Let the skies reverberate with the call ‘victory to India’ and rest not till the goal is reached. Bharat Mata-ki Jai.” The Government had already come to know that the Sangh Shakhas would start functioning again. The news had caused a turmoil among the top-ranking leaders of the Congress. In a public meeting in Gwa

  If one historically traces social ideology guiding Golwalkar and the Sangh, one can notice the deep impact of Brahmanical hegemony on them. Golwalkar has always believed in the idea of Varna system i.e. four fold division of the society. He had staunchly defended it and had called the tasks performed by these Varnas as “selfless service”. Terming caste discrimination as phenomenon attributed to the British rule, he wrote: “The feeling of inequality, of high and low, which has crept into the Varna system, is comparatively of recent origin. The perversion was given a further fillip by the scheming Britisher in line with his 'divide and rule' policy. But in its original form, the distinctions in that social order did not imply any discrimination such as big and small, high and low, among its constituents. On the other hand, the Gita tells us that the individual who does his assigned duties in life in a spirit of selfless service only worships God through such performance.” AT th

  Dr. Hedgewar was a freedom fighter and pre-RSS Congressman who was arrested and sentenced for a year’s imprisonment for his role in the Khilafat movement (1919-1924) and that was his last participation in the freedom struggle. Soon after his release, Hedgewar, inspired by Savarkar’s idea of Hindutva, founded the RSS in September 1925 and this organisation remained subservient to the colonising power and opposed the mass movements for India’s freedom in every phase of the struggle.   According to Hedgewar’s biography published by the RSS, when Gandhi launched the Salt Satyagraha in 1930, he “sent information everywhere that the Sangh will participated in this movement. However those wishing to participate individually in it were not prohibited. This meant that any responsible worker of the Sangh could not participate in the Satyagraha”. T his announcement of Hedgewar was actively discouraged cadres to participate in these momentous events. M.S. Golwalkar, who succeeded Hedgewar, w

 Many social revolutionaries hailing from the marginalized and oppressed sections of Indian society have waged numerous struggles and made untold sacrifices to emancipate the impoverished and oppressed communities in India from the oppressive living realities of the Hindu social order. In this regard, numerous reform movements have helped, enhanced and empowered the oppressed communities in the socio-economic, political, cultural and religious milieu of Indian society. In the modern India, Mahatma Jotirao Phule, Shahuji Maharaj, Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker, Sree Narayana Guru, and B.R. Ambedkar (Ambedkarism) have played a monumental role in liberating, emancipating and empowering the oppressed sections of Indian society. He wrote extensively on Hinduism. What is the Hindu social order? Is it a free social order? Is it empathetic towards the grievances of individuals in the society? To answer these questions, we need to know what constitutes a free social order. According to Dr B.R.

Why Golwalkar not Participated in Quit India Movement 1924? There was no nation-wide organised force in the country that could successfully exploit such a golden opportunity. The Congress did announce the ‘Quit India’ movement under Gandhiji’s leadership, but it had neither clear-out plan or programme, nor was any effort made to bring together all the different forces that lay scattered all over the country. It is believed that Gandhiji had merely suggested to the Congress leaders to sit together on August 9, 1942 to think about the possibility of a movement. He had thought of a period of six months for its actual preparations. But the British Government proved too smart and did not let him have the time to carry out the plan. All the prominent leaders of the Congress were arrested as soon as they reached Mumbai. Incensed over this, the people took matters into their own hands and launched a movement without any preparation whatsoever. All the leaders were in jail and a leaderless move

 RSS Role in Partition of India   After the victory of II Word War, the new Government was formed by Labour Party uner the leadership of Atlee who was in favour of granting independence to India. Elections in India were announced in 1946. While the Congress fought on the plank of an undivided India, the Muslim League fought on that of creation of Pakistan. Muslims all over the country mostly voted for Pakistan and the Hindu voted for the Congress. The NWFP was, however the only exception where the Congress swept the polls. Here it must be borne in mind that even in the interior areas of the country, Muslims had massively supported the demand for Pakistan.  The Labour Government sent a Cabinet Mission to India in order to finalise the plan for transfer of power. But due to a basic difference between the Congress and the Muslim League over the interpretation of the proposal the League rejected it. In the Interim Government formed at the Center the Muslim League ministers were putting ser

Mahatms Gandhi Visit to RSS Comp Gandhiji himself was pleasantly surprised to witness this rare phenomenon at a Sangh camp in Wardha in 1934. The camp was attended by over, 1,500 Swayam sevaks, all put up in barracks and tents just nearby by Gandhiji’s ashram. Seeing the camp humming with the activities of several hundreds of young men, he desired to visit it. Accordingly, Wardha District Sanghchalak welcomed Gandhiji to the camp. Gandhiji saw all the arrangements for residence, mess, etc., in the camp. Then he enquired, “How many Harijans are here?” Our Sanghchalak replied, “I do not know, for I have never enquired.”  After making persistent enquiries directly with the Swayam Sevaks Gandhiji came to know that there were persons from all castes, including Harijans, carrying on all the camp programmes together, right from eating to playing, in a spirit of joy and harmony, without even being conscious of their castes. He was simply amazed.  This experience had left such a deep impressio

RSS Ideology of Social Unification without Discrimination If one historically traces social ideology guiding Golwalkar and the Sangh, one can notice the deep impact of Brahmanical hegemony on them. Golwalkar has always believed in the idea of Varna system i.e. four fold division of the society. He had staunchly defended it and had called the tasks performed by these Varnas as “selfless service”. Terming caste discrimination as phenomenon attributed to the British rule, he wrote: “The feeling of inequality, of high and low, which has crept into the Varna system, is comparatively of recent origin. The perversion was given a further fillip by the scheming Britisher in line with his 'divide and rule' policy. But in its original form, the distinctions in that social order did not imply any discrimination such as big and small, high and low, among its constituents. On the other hand, the Gita tells us that the individual who does his assigned duties in life in a spirit of selfless se

 Golwalkar's Fight for Justice after Gandhiji’s Assassination On the evening of 30th Jan. 1948, Golwalkar was present at a meeting of prominent citizens of Madras organised by the Sangh. Tea was being served and Golwalkar was holding the cup in his hands. Suddenly, before he could take it to his lips, the evil tidings came – somebody had shot Gandhiji dead at the Birla Bhavan in Delhi during his prayer meeting. On hearing the terrible news, Golwalkar put down his cup, and sat still for a long moment, lost in thought. Then he exclaimed in anguish – ‘What a misfortune for the country!’ Cancelling the rest of his tour, he flew back to Nagpur. Before leaving Madras, he sent telegrams of condolence to Pt. Nehru, Sardar Patel and Shri Devdas Gandhi. At the same time he also issued a country-wide directive to keep all Sangh Shakhas closed for thirteen days as an expression of grief over the tragedy. On returning to Nagpur, he immediately wrote letters to Pt. Nehru and Sardar Patel express