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title: "When was the RSS established in India ?"  
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# When was the RSS established in India ?

When was the RSS established in [India](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23266/how-rooftop-solar-can-benefit-india-s-healthcare-industry)?

## Answers

### Answer by Aditya Patel

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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, abbreviated as **[RSS was founded in 1925 by Keshav Baliram Hedgewar](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/40519/why-was-rss-rashtriya-swayamsevak-sangh-established)**. He was a doctor in the city of Nagpur, British India.

Dr. Hedgewar was a political protege of B. S. Moonje. BS Moonje Ji was a political figure. He was also a Tilakit Congressman, a Hindu Mahasabha politician and a social worker from Nagpur. B S Moonje had sent Hedgewar to Calcutta to pursue his medical studies and to learn combat techniques from the revolutionary secret societies of the Bengalis. Dr Hedgewar became a member of the Anushilan Samiti, an anti-British revolutionary group, getting into its inner circle. The secretive methods of these societies were eventually used by him in organizing the RSS. ![When was the RSS established in India ?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/bdff4887-2a3d-4f42-81d7-066aa774495e/images/b1e2fa2e-ff10-4f35-b758-22067182124d.png)\


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