Hindu leaders found the Hindu Mahasabha at Haridwar to organize Hindu society and represent its interests in the politics of late colonial India; under Savarkar it later gives Hindu nationalism its name, Hindutva.
Tagged: Hindu Hindu Reform Movements
The Event
- Date
- 1915 (exact)
- Era
- Colonial; Standard periodization of Hindu history
- Location
- Haridwar; today Uttarakhand, India
- Traditions
- Hinduism
- Streams
- Hindu Reform Movements
- Key figures
- Madan Mohan Malaviya, V. D. Savarkar
Primary Sources
- The Hindu Mahasabha's founding proceedings
Secondary Sources
- Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy (HarperCollins, 2007)
- Jones, Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India (Cambridge, 1989)
Provenance: HIST-0333; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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