Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha

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Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (All India Hindu Council), is a political party in India. It is a minority right-wing party dedicated to the establishment of a democratic Hindu state. It was founded in 1915 to promote greater unity and solidarity among all sections of the Hindu community.

It found success in 1952 when it sent four of its members to the Lok Sabha. It has been largely unsuccessful since then.

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Founded in 1915, the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha was opposed to the inclusionist territorial nationalism of the Indian National Congress and the Islamic cultural nationalism of the Muslim League, the two major participants in the Indian independence movement. Due to this, it was not able to play a major role in the talks that led to the partition and Independence in 1947. It was banned briefly following the assassination of the Gandhi in 1948 by Nathuram Godse. Nathuram Godse was a member of an RSS splinter group associated with Savarkar, who was the President of the Hindu Mahasabha between 1937 and 1944. Since then it largely remained on the political fringe.

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• Janda.org - Party politics in India, 1963-2000
• Signifying Sanskrit in Hindu Revivalist