RSSFACTS: The lesser known and unknown facts about Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the largest voluntary organisation in the world.     

MS Golwalkar

International Mother Language Day: Indian Linguistic Diversity, and the RSS Position

 India’s extraordinary linguistic diversity is reflected in its numerous mother tongues, each carrying unique cultural and historical significance. These languages are not merely tools of communication, they serve as repositories of civilisational memory, knowledge traditions, literary heritage, and social continuity. …

The 1948 RSS Ban: Evidence, Investigations, and Historical Record

Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948 at Birla Bhavan in New Delhi. Just after the assassination, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) became the target of vindictive administrative action and eventually, a long-running political narrative. The actions taken against …

Sardar Patel and the RSS: A Story That Needs to Be Retold 

India observes ‘Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day)’ on 31 October every year to commemorate the birth anniversary of India’s first Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel who had played a crucial role in the …

Key moments in the 99-year-old journey of RSS influencing its evolution

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is the largest voluntary organisation in the world and its volunteers run more than three dozen organisations across the country. These organisations include India’s largest labour, farmers’, tribal welfare, educational, social service organisations. The RSS …

RSS doesn’t conduct any poll surveys, its too busy to indulge in politics

A number of posts have been doing rounds on the social media that make claims about the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) conducting an election survey for the ongoing parliamentary polls in India. Most of these posts mischievously predict that the …

What role RSS volunteers played during partition of India

The partition of Bharat in 1947 is one of the bloodiest events in the world’s history.  The Congress leadership had left millions of Hindus in the East and West Pakistan at the mercy of Muslim mobs led by the Muslim League leaders …