Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, known as Guruji, played a crucial role in rise of more than 70,000 daily shakhas (training camps), around 4,000 full-time pracharaks (cadre) and 36 organisations working in every sphere of society, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has emerged as the largest voluntary movement in the world. It was under Golwalkar’s leadership that the RSS attained a truly pan-Indian character by expanding rapidly from 1940 to 1973 even as the organisation and the country went through some tumultuous times like Partition in 1947, the ban on the organisation following Mahatma Gandhi’s death in 1948, the debacle of the 1962 war, and the India-Pakistan wars of 1965 and 1971. Golwalkar ensured that not only did the RSS get over the ban but also emerged as an organisation with greater ideological clarity and stronger organisational structure. He traveled the entire country over 65 times to set up RSS- inspired organisations in every field, ranging from tribal welfare...
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