‘Abhinav Bharat’ founded in 1904 was:

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In 1904, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and his brother Ganesh Damodar Savarkar created the Abhinav Bharat Society, an Indian Independence criminal organization. When Vinayak Savarkar was a student at Fergusson College in Pune, he established the 'Mitra Mela' in Nasik, which grew to include many hundred dissidents and political campaigners with branches across India, finally spreading to London after Savarkar decided to study law. The Savarkar brothers were tried and incarcerated after they pulled out a few killings on British officials. In 1952, society was completely abolished.


Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, also known by his supporters as Veer, was an Indian politician, activist, and author. While imprisoned in Ratnagiri in 1922, he formulated the Hindu nationalist political concept called Hindutva. He was a prominent member of the Hindu Mahasabha.
Savarkar became a member of the Hindu Mahasabha and promoted Chandranath Basu's term Hinduism to establish a communal 'Hindu' image as a core value of India. Savarkar was an agnostic who practiced Hindu philosophy pragmatically. As a high school student, Savarkar became involved in politics and continued to do so in Fergusson College in Pune. He and his brother created the Abhinav Bharat Group, a secret society. While learning law in the Uk, he became involved with organizations such as India House and the Free India Society. He also wrote works arguing for total Indian independence through revolution. The British colonial authorities prohibited one of his works, The Indian War of Independence, which was about the Indian Rebellion of 1857. For his ties to the revolutionary organization India House, Savarkar was imprisoned in 1910 and sentenced to be repatriated to India.
Savarkar attempted to flee and seek refuge in France when the ship was stopped in the port of Marseilles on the way back to India. However, in violation of global rules, French port authorities returned him to the British government. When he returned to India, Savarkar was convicted to consecutive life sentences, reaching fifty years, and was transferred to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands' Cellular Jail.

Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, also known as Babarao Savarkar, was a statesman, journalist, and patriot from India who founded the Abhinav Bharat Society.
Ganesh was the oldest of the Savarkar siblings, who included Ganesh, Vinayak, and Narayan. They also had a sister, Mainabai, who was their parents' final child, while Narayan was the smallest. At the age of 20, his family became liable because of the demise of his parents. As a result of leading an armed rebellion against the British colonial administration in India, he was condemned to life in prison. 'Dr. B. S. Moonje, Dr. L. V. Paranjpe, Dr. Tholkar, Babarao Savarkar, and Dr. Hedgewar himself were the five buddies who founded the RSS,' says M. J. Akbar. According to Rity Kohli, Golwalkar reduced Savarkar's essay 'Rashtra Mimansa' into 'We, and our Nationhood, Defined' in 1938, which was the first work product of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh doctrine.