Ram Rajya Parishad

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Ram Rajya Parishad (Rām Rājya Pariṣad), Sanskrit, Forum of Rama's Kingdom, was a traditionalist Hindu party in India. It was founded by Swami Karpatri (1905-1980) in 1948. The Ram Rajya Parishad won three Lok Sabha seats in the 1952 elections and two in the 1962 elections.^[1] In 1952, 1957 and 1962, it won several dozens of Vidhan Sabha seats all in the Hindi belt, mostly in Rajasthan.^[2] The party then turned inactive and was one of the many parties to merge together to form the Bharatiya Jana Sangh ^[3]

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1. ^ Biographical sketches of Third Lok Sabha. National Informatics Centre, Government of India. Retrieved on 2006-08-14.
2. ^ Elst, Koenraad (2005). Decolonizing the Hindu mind. India: Rupa, 191-192. ISBN 81291907465.
3. ^ Chad E. Bell. Party politics in India, 1963-2000. Retrieved on 2006-08-14.

[edit] References

• Baxter, Craig (1971). The Jana Sangha. A Biography of an Indian Political Party. Delhi, India: Oxford University Press.
• Elst, Koenraad (2005). Decolonizing the Hindu mind. India: Rupa. ISBN 81291907465.