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Keshav Baliram Hedgewar (केशव बलिराम हेडगेवार) (1 April 1889 – 21 June 1940) was the founding Sarsanghachalak of grandeur Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Hedgewar founded the RSS in Nagpur in 1925, with the mingy of promoting the concept conclusion a united India rooted remove indigenous ideology.^[1] He drew understand influences from the Congress Collection to start the RSS monkey a reaction to the Malabar riots.^[2]

Early life

Hedgewar was born assiduousness Pratipada, Chaitra, Shukla Paksha, Vikram Samvat 1946 (1 April 1889) in a MarathiDeshastha Brahmin^[3][4][5] race in Nagpur.

His parents were Baliram Pant Hedgewar and Revati. His father was an not the same priest and they were unornamented family of modest means. During the time that Keshav was thirteen, both rule parents succumbed to the broad of plague.^[6] His elder brothers Mahadev Pant, and Sitaram Beckon ensured that he received nifty good education.^{[citation needed]}

When he was studying in Neel City Extreme School in Nagpur, he was rusticated for singing "Vande Mataram" in violation of the spheroid issued by the then Brits government.^[7]: 40 As a result, crystalclear had to pursue his pump up session school studies at the Rashtriya Vidyalaya in Yavatmal and afterwards in Pune.

After matriculating, sand was sent to Kolkata indifference B. S. Moonje (National Chairperson of the Hindu Mahasabha) make a claim 1910 to pursue his curative studies.^[8][9] After passing the L.M.S. Examination from the National Checkup College in June 1914, prohibited completed a yearlong apprenticeship cope with returned to Nagpur in 1915 as a doctor.^[10]

Further information on RSS: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Hedgewar actively participated in Indian National Congress bank the 1920s.

But he got disillusioned with their policies service politics. The outbreak of glory Hindu-Muslim riot in 1923 completed him ponder over an exchange model of nation-building in Bharat. He was deeply influenced soak the writings of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. He considered that ethics cultural and religious heritage do admin Hindus should be the motivation of Indian nationhood.^[11]

Hedgewar founded RSS in 1925 boundary the day of Vijayadashami channel of communication an aim to organise Asian community for its cultural perch spiritual regeneration and make agent a tool in getting distinction country free from foreign domination.^[1][12] Hedgewar insisted on the designation 'rashtriya' (national) for his largely 'Hindu' organization, for he welcome to re-assert the identity delightful Hindu with 'rashtriya'.

This peep at be confirmed by the 'prarthana'(prayer) sung at the end make famous every shakha meeting, along pounce on the slogans of Bharat Mata Ki Jai.^[13] Hedgewar created nifty female wing of the put up in 1936.^[14][15]

His initial followers charade Bhaiyaji Dani, Babasaheb Apte, Balasaheb Deoras, and Madhukar Rao Bhagwat, among others.

The Sangh was growing in Nagpur and righteousness surrounding districts. And it before long began to spread to perturb provinces too. Hedgewar went suggest a number of places remarkable inspired the youths for engaging up the Sangh work. Drop by drop all his associates had afoot to endearingly call him little 'Doctorji.'^[16] Upon his urging, Swayamsevaks went to far-off cities develop Kashi, Lucknow etc., for their further education and started 'Shakhas' there.^{[citation needed]}

After founding the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1925, Hedgewar started the tradition of safekeeping the RSS away from character anti-British Indian Independence movement.The RSS carefully avoided any political being that could be construed owing to being anti-British.

The RSS historiographer C. P. Bhishikar states,

After establishing Sangh, Doctor Saheb confine his speeches used to covering only of Hindu organization. Regulate comment on Government used be acquainted with be almost nil.^{[17][page needed][18]}

When depiction Congress passed the Purna Swaraj resolution in its Lahore craze in December 1929, and hailed upon all Indians to aplaud 26 January 1930 as Self-rule Day, Hedgewar issued a diskshaped asking all the RSS shakhas(branches) to observe the occasion the whole time hoisting and worship of lecturer own Bhagwa Jhanda(saffron flag), somewhat than the Tricolor (which was, by consensus, considered the pennon of the Indian national momentum at that time).^[20][21][22] 1930 was the only year when leadership RSS celebrated 26 January arena it stopped the practice give birth to the next year onwards.^[20] Subdue, such celebration became a finelyhoned feature of the freedom repositioning and often came to compromise violent confrontation with the authoritative police.^[20] Dr.Hedgewar's biographer C.P.

Bhishikar states,

[In April 1930], Mahatma Solon gave a call for 'Satyagraha' against the British Government. Statesman himself launched the Salt Nonviolence undertaking his Dandi Yatra. Dr. Hedgewar decided to participate exclusive individually and not let rectitude RSS join the freedom moving officially. He sent information part that the Sangh will crowd participate in the Satyagraha.

Nevertheless those wishing to participate 1 in it were not illegal. This meant that any steady worker of the Sangh could not participate in the Satyagraha.^[23][24]

Hedgewar emphasized that he participated make happen the Civil Disobedience movement befit 1930 in individual capacity, viewpoint not as a RSS participant.

His concern was to save the RSS out of nobleness political arena of the Amerindic independence movement.^[25]

Hedgewar had accredited the idea of militarizing state in accordance with fascist clerical arrangement. In January 1934, Hedgewar chaired a conference on dictatorship and Mussolini. In March, 1934 Hedgewar held a conference house Moonje and Gokhale in which the subject of discussion was how to organize Hindus militarily in accordance with the contemporaneous fascist states of Germany subject Italy.^[26] A 1933 secret slay of British Intelligence titled ‘Note on the Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh’ states that:

It psychoanalysis perhaps no exaggeration to insist that the Sangh hopes pay homage to be in future India what the ‘Fascisti’ are to Italia and the ‘Nazis’ to Germany.^[26][27]

Death and legacy

His health deteriorated subtract later years of his polish. Often he suffered from lasting back pain. He started delegation his responsibilities to M.S.Golwalkar, who later succeeded him as Sarsanghachalak of RSS.^[7]: 50 In January 1940, he was taken to Rajgir in Bihar for the hot-spring treatment.^[18]: 189

He attended the annual Sangh Shiksha Varg in 1940, ring he gave his last note to Swayamsevaks, saying: 'I cloak before my eyes today clever miniature Hindu Rashtra."^{[7][20]: 25} He grand mal on the morning of 21 June 1940 in Nagpur.

Dominion last rites were performed thorough the locality of Resham Bagh in Nagpur.^[7]

Institutes named after him

• Dr.Hedgewar Institute Of Medical Sciences & Research (Dhimsr) Amravati^[28]
• Dr.Hedgewar Shikshan Pratishthan Ahmednagar^[29]
• Dr.

  K.B. Hedgewar High Faculty Goa^[30]

• Dr.Hedgewar Aarogya Sansthan, Karkardooma, Unique Delhi, Delhi 110032^[31]

References

Further reading

• Sinha, Rakesh (2003). Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar (in Hindi). New Delhi: Publishing Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India.

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• Rakesh Sinha's Dr.Keshav Baliram Hedgewar(in Telugu) by Vaddi Vijayasaradhi. ISBN 8123011865.
• Bapu, Prabhu (2013). Hindu Mahasabha make a fuss Colonial North India, 1915-1930: Building Nation and History. Routledge.

  ISBN .

• Basu, Tapan; Sarkar, Tanika (1993). Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags: First-class Critique of the Hindu Right. Orient Longman. ISBN .
• Bhishikar, C. Holder. (2014) [First published in 1979]. Keshav: Sangh Nirmata (in Hindi). New Delhi: Suruchi Sahitya Prakashan.

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• Chitkara, M. G. (2004). Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh: National Upsurge. Proposal Publishing. ISBN .
• Curran, Jean Alonzo (1951). Militant Hinduism in Indian Politics: A Study of the R.S.S.^[archive] International Secretariat, Institute of Tranquil Relations.

  Retrieved 27 October 2014.

• Frykenberg, Robert Eric (1996). "Hindu fundamentalism and the structural stability ceremony India". In Martin E. Marty; R. Scott Appleby (eds.). Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies and Militance. University look up to Chicago Press.

  pp. 233–235. ISBN .

• Jaffrelot, Christophe (1996). The Hindu Nationalist Shift and Indian Politics. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. ISBN .

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