Monday, September 20, 2021

Hindu Mahasabha - History

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HINDU MAHASABHA AN INTROUDCTION

Akhil Bharat Hindu Maha Sabha  was formed in 1907.  Hindu Mahasabha is a hindusangathan movement and politics of hindutva. Hindu Mahasabha is a non-secular party, established for safeguarding issues of Hindus.

The Eminent personalities who founded this Organisation and who presided over the ALL INDIA Sessions held are: Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Swami Sharadhanand ,Shankaracharya Dr Kurtkoti , N.C.Kelkar , Lal Lajpat Rai , Raja Narendranath , Ramanand Chatterjee , Vijayaraghavacharya, Bai Parmanand, Bhikustootama, Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Dr B. S.Moonje, Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, Dr N.B.Khare, N.C.Chaterjee, Prof V.G.Deshpande, N.N.Banerjee.Vikram Savarkar, Balarao Savarkar. This party was also represented in Parliament by noted Parliamentarians like Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, Prof V.G.Deshpande, N.C.Chaterjee, Dr N.B.Khare, Bhishanchand Seth, Mahant Digvijaynath Pandit Brij Narayan Brijesh, SMT Shakuntala Nayar. In freedom struggle some personalities of this party where prosecuted by British, sentenced to death, sentenced and send to Andaman’s, Among them where Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Babarao Damodar Savarkar, Bhai Parmanand, Ashutosh Lahiri and Baba Madan Singh Goga.Several revolutionaries where active members.

In the past Dr.Rajendra Prasad, Babu Jagjivan Ram, Jairamdas Daulatram, S.K.Patil, M.R.Jaykar, Dr. Chotiram Gidwani, Meherchand Khanna and several other Congress Leaders were actively associated with Hindu Mahasabha, and were office bearers. In 1926 Shri Vitthalbhai Patel and Motilal Nehru had attended the session at Calcutta (Kolkatta). In the 1925 election to Provincial Legislatures nationalists supported by Hindu Mahasabha were elected in Sindh, Bengal, Punjab, C.P (Central Province) & U.P (Uttar Pradesh) including personalities like Lal Lajpat Rai inn Punjab, Dr B.S.Moonge in C.P and Shri G.D.Birla in U.P.  In 1935 Elections the Congress Nationalist Party supported by Hindu Mahasabha secured 13 seats for the Central Assembly as against 44 of the Congress party. Shri J.P.Shrivastav and Dr. N.B.Khare were members of the Executive Council of the Viceroy as representatives of Hindu Mahasabha. Dr B.S.Moonje had represented Hindu Mahasabha in the Round Table Conference.  Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was working as a Minister For Industry in the Nehru Cabinet on Behalf of the Hindu Mahasabha. In 1944 at Bilaspur Session of ALL India Hindu Mahasabha under the Presidentship of Dr. Shayama Parsed Mukherjee a model Constitution of India was adopted. Some of  its   salient features are included in the Constitution of India. 

ANNUAL SESSIONS
  Session               Date       Venue        President
   
 1st Session 29-Mar-1905 Haridwar       Raja Mahendra Singh Nandi
   
 2nd Session 30-Mar-1905 Haridwar      Madan Mohan Malaviya
   
 3rdSession 31-Mar-1905 Haridwar     Madan Mohan Malaviya
   
 4th Session 26-28 December 1918 Delhi Raja Sir Rampal



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EPW Article - Raghavan
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4372069?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents



The hindu mahasabha in Maharashtra
Researcher: Valsangkar, Sanjyot
Name of the Guide Sumant, Y M
University: Savitribai Phule Pune University
Completed Date: 1997
Department of Politics & Public Administration

http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/149954



Hindu Mahasabha in Colonial North India, 1915-1930: Constructing Nation and History

Prabhu Bapu
Routledge, 2013 - History - 248 pages

Hindu nationalism has emerged as a political ideology represented by the Hindu Mahasabha. This book explores the campaign for Hindu unity and organisation in the context of the Hindu-Muslim conflict in colonial north India in the early twentieth century. It argues that India's partition in 1947 was a result of the campaign and politics of the Hindu rightwing rather than the Islamist politics of the Muslim League alone.

The book explains that the Mahasabha articulated Hindu nationalist ideology as a means of constructing a distinct Hindu political identity and unity among the Hindus in conflict with the Muslims in the country. It looks at the Mahasabha’s ambivalence with the Indian National Congress due to an extreme ideological opposition, and goes on to argue that the Mahasabha had its ideological focus on an anti-Muslim antagonism rather than the anti-British struggle for India’s independence, adding to the difficulties in the negotiations on Hindu-Muslim representation in the country. The book suggests that the Mahasabha had a limited class and regional base and was unable to generate much in the way of a mass movement of its own, but developed a quasi-military wing, besides its involvement in a number of popular campaigns.


https://india.wikia.org/wiki/Akhil_Bharat_Hindu_Mahasabha


https://loksabha.nic.in/Members/partyar.aspx?lsno=2&tab=14


https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/abs/hindu-mahasabha-and-the-indian-national-congress-1915-to-1926/BB6384DD2E88E962A3BF2F68A4F5FC4E


Ud. 21.9.2021
Pub 23.7.2018

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