K. B. Hedgewar founds the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in Nagpur on Vijayadashami, organizing Hindu men and boys in daily shakhas of drill, discipline, and teaching; the Sangh grows into the center of a family of organizations that reshapes Indian politics.
Tagged: Hindu Hindu Reform Movements
The Event
- Date
- 1925 (exact)
- Also called
- Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh founded
- Era
- Colonial; Standard periodization of Hindu history
- Location
- Nagpur; today Maharashtra, India
- Traditions
- Hinduism
- Streams
- Hindu Reform Movements
- Key figures
- K. B. Hedgewar
Primary Sources
- The RSS founding records, 1925
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-0335; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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