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TIMELINE

HINDUTVA TIMELINE1

March 24, 2022:



BJP RULED UTTARAKHAND BECOMES FIRST STATE IN INDIA TO ANNOUNCE IMPLEMENTATION OF
UNIFORM CIVIL CODE (UCC). THE MOVE IS AN ATTEMPT TO TARGET MUSLIM PERSONAL LAWS.



March 15, 2022



A HIGH COURT IN INDIA’S KARNATAKA STATE WHILE UPHOLDING HIJAB BAN RULED THAT THE
HIJAB IS NOT “ESSENTIAL” TO ISLAM. THE RULING WILL HAVE IMPLICATIONS ACROSS THE
COUNTRY.



March 10, 2022



BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY (BJP) WINS STATE ELECTIONS IN FOUR INDIAN STATES OF UTTAR
PRADESH, GOA, UTTARAKHAND, AND MANIPUR, RENEWING FEARS OF AN ESCALATION IN THE
ANTI-MINORITY PERSECUTION.



January 2022



IN INDIA’S KARNATAKA STATE, MUSLIM FEMALE STUDENTS WHO WEAR HIJAB WERE BANNED
FROM SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES AFTER THE BJP RULED STATE GOVERNMENT ISSUED AN ORDER
PUTTING A BLANKET BAN ON WEARING MUSLIM RELIGIOUS CLOTHING. LATER, THE STATE
HIGH COURT ALSO ISSUED AN INTERIM ORDER BANNING HIJAB IN SCHOOLS AND CAMPUSES.



December 17, 2021



BETWEEN DECEMBER 17 AND 19, A LARGE NUMBER OF HINDU MONKS CAME TOGETHER AT
HARIDWAR, UTTARAKHAND FOR AN EVENT CALLED THE ‘DHARMA SANSAD’ OR ‘RELIGIOUS
PARLIAMENT’, WHERE THEY GAVE THE CALL FOR AN ANTI-MUSLIM GENOCIDE AND KILLING 2
MILLION MUSLIMS.



28 May 2021



BJP GOVERNMENT ALLOWS HINDUS, SIKHS, JAINS, PARSIS, CHRISTIANS, AND BUDDHISTS
FROM NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES WHO ARE RESIDING IN 13 DISTRICTS OF INDIA TO APPLY
FOR CITIZENSHIP



12 December 2019



CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT COMES INTO EXISTENCE, OPENING A PATH FOR
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MUSLIMS, TRIGGERING MASSIVE VIOLENCE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST



09 November 2019



SUPREME COURT OF INDIA HANDS THE BABRI MASJID SITE TO HINDUS DESPITE
ACKNOWLEDGING THAT DEMOLITION OF THE BABRI MASJID IN 1992 WAS A CRIME, AS WAS
ITS DEFILING BY FORCIBLY INSTALLING A HINDU IDOL THERE IN 1949



05 August 2019



ARTICLES 370 AND 35A OF THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION THAT PROVIDED A SPECIAL STATUS
TO THE STATE OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR REVOKED, FULFILLING A LONG-STANDING DEMAND OF
THE RSS-BJP



20 June 2019



INDIAN POLICE SERVICE OFFICER SANJIV BHATT, WHO HAD EXPOSED NARENDRA MODI’S
COMPLICITY IN THE MASSACRE OF MUSLIMS IN GUJARAT IN 2002, IS SENTENCED TO LIFE
IMPRISONMENT IN A FABRICATED CASE OF CUSTODIAL KILLING. THE JUDGES REFUSED TO
ALLOW BHATT TO CROSS-EXAMINE PROSECUTION WITNESSES, NOR ALLOWED THE DEFENSE TO
BRING ANY WITNESSES



23 May 2019



NARENDRA MODI WINS HIS SECOND TERM



26 May 2014



NARENDRA MODI BECOMES THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA



May 2004



VAJPAYEE LOSES LOK SABHA ELECTION; MANMOHAN SINGH BECOMES PRIME MINISTER



September 2002



NARENDRA MODI BECOMES THE CHIEF MINISTER OF GUJARAT



February-March 2002



AT LEAST 2,000 MUSLIMS WERE MASSACRED IN GUJARAT IN A POGROM CARRIED OUT BY
RSS-BJP-VHP AFFILIATED MOBS AFTER MODI BLAMES MUSLIMS IN GODHRA FOR A TRAIN FIRE
THAT KILLED 59 PASSENGERS, INCLUDING KAR SEVAKS RETURNING FROM AYODHYA



23 January 1999



BAJRANG DAL MILITANTS BURNED ALIVE AUSTRALIAN MISSIONARY GRAHAM STAINES AND HIS
TWO SONS WHILE THEY WERE SLEEPING IN THEIR CAR.



16 February 1998



BJP EMERGES AS THE SINGLE LARGEST PARTY IN LOK SABHA ELECTION AGAIN, WITH ITS
HIGHEST-EVER 182 SEATS. VAJPAYEE FORMS A COALITION GOVERNMENT WITH A MAJORITY



27 April 1996



FOR THE FIRST-EVER TIME, BJP EMERGES AS THE SINGLE LARGEST PARTY IN THE LOK
SABHA ELECTION-WINNING 161 SEATS. VAJPAYEE BECOMES PRIME MINSTER BUT RESIGNS
AFTER 13 DAYS AS HE FAILS TO GET A MAJORITY



6 December 1992



RSS-BJP-VHP-BAJRANG DAL VIGILANTES RAZE BABRI MASJID TO THE GROUND. BJP LEADERS
INCLUDING ADVANI, MURALI MANOHAR JOSHI, AND UMA BHARTI ARE BOOKED FOR MAKING
COMMUNAL SPEECHES LEADING TO THE DEMOLITION



June 1991



CONGRESS EMERGES AS THE SINGLE LARGEST PARTY IN LOK SABHA ELECTION, BJP REACHES
THREE-FIGURE FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH 120 LOK SABHA SEATS



1991



DURGA VAHINI AN “ARM” OF THE BAJRANG DAL, IS FOUNDED UNDER SADHVI RITHAMBARA, A
SELF-STYLED FEMALE MONK WHO HAD EMERGED AS A PRINCIPAL RABBLE-ROUSER AGAINST THE
BABRI MASJID



10 November 1990



BJP EMERGES AS THE THIRD-HIGHEST PARTY IN LOK SABHA ELECTION WITH 85 SEATS;
LENDS OUTSIDE SUPPORT TO VISHWANATH PRATAP SINGH WHO REPLACES RAJIV GANDHI AS
PRIME MINISTER



30 October / 2 November 1990



16 KAR SEVAKS ARE KILLED IN POLICE FIRING AFTER THEY ATTACK BABRI MASJID



23 October 1990



THEN BIHAR CHIEF MINISTER LALU YADAV’S GOVERNMENT ARRESTS ADVANI AND STOPS RATH
YATRA



25 September 1990



THEN BJP PRESIDENT ADVANI LAUNCHES A RATH YATRA FROM SOMNATH TO AYODHYA IN FAVOR
OF THE RAM TEMPLE



2 December 1989



BJP WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FROM CENTRAL GOVERNMENT LEADING TO VP SINGH’S RESIGNATION



9 November 1989



VHP LAYS THE FOUNDATION OF A RAM TEMPLE ON LAND NEXT TO THE BABRI MASJID
FOLLOWING PERMISSION FROM THEN PRIME MINISTER RAJIV GANDHI’S GOVERNMENT



February 1986



FAIZABAD DISTRICT JUDGE HARI SHANKAR PANDEY ORDERS UNLOCKING OF THE BABRI MASJID
AND ALLOWS WORSHIP BY HINDUS



1984



VHP LAUNCHES ITS MOVEMENT TO CLAIM AYODHYA’S BABRI MASJID AS THE BIRTHPLACE OF
LORD RAM



1984



BAJRANG DAL IS FOUNDED AS A YOUTH WING AND VIGILANTE OUTFIT FOR CULTURAL
INDOCTRINATION



December 1984



BJP IS DECIMATED WINNING ONLY TWO SEATS IN LOK SABHA ELECTION THAT WERE CALLED
BY THEN PRIME MINISTER RAJIV GANDHI AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF HIS MOTHER,
INDIRA GANDHI. CONGRESS UNDER RAJIV WINS 400 PLUS SEATS



1983



VHP ORGANIZES “EKATMATA YATRA” WITH THE PURPOSE OF FORGING “HINDU UNITY” AGAINST
ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY



January 1980



JANATA PARTY WINS ONLY 31 SEATS WHICH INCLUDE RSS/FORMER BJS MPS, AS INDIRA
GANDHI WINS A LANDSLIDE IN LOK SABHA ELECTIONS AND RETURNS AS PRIME MINISTER



6 April 1980



BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY IS FORMED BY RSS/FORMER BJS MEMBERS SPLITTING FROM JANATA
PARTY ON THE ISSUE OF DUAL MEMBERSHIP



1979



JANATA PARTY BREAKS APART AFTER FORMER BJS LEADERS SUCH AS VAJPAYEE AND ADVANI
REFUSE TO DISAVOW THEIR CONNECTIONS WITH THE RSS. CHARAN SINGH BECOMES PRIME
MINISTER WITH OUTSIDE SUPPORT FROM INDIRA GANDHI’S CONGRESS PARTY BUT HIS
GOVERNMENT COLLAPSES AFTER 24 WEEKS AS INDIRA GANDHI WITHDRAWS SUPPORT.



23 March 1977



JANATA PARTY WINS THE LOK SABHA ELECTIONS IN A LANDSLIDE WITH RSS/FORMER BJS
LEADERS WINNING THE LARGEST NUMBER OF SEATS AT 93 OF ALL CONSTITUENTS OF JANATA
PARTY. MORARJI DESAI IS NAMED PRIME MINISTER FOR THE FIRST TIME. RSS/FORMER BJS
MEMBERS VAJPAYEE AND LAL KRISHNA ADVANI BECOME NATIONAL MINISTERS.



23 January 1977



JANATA PARTY IS FORMED AS BHARATIYA JANA SANGH MERGES INTO IT AFTER INDIRA
GANDHI CALLS LOK SABHA ELECTION



1975-77



RSS CHIEF DEORAS WRITES AN APOLOGY TO INDIRA GANDHI FROM PRISON. ATAL BEHARI
VAJPAYEE IS ALLOWED ON PAROLE AFTER REPORTEDLY PROMISING GOOD BEHAVIOR



25 June 1975



PRIME MINISTER INDIRA GANDHI CLAMPS EMERGENCY SUSPENDING CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS;
MANY OPPOSITION LEADERS, INCLUDING JAYAPRAKASH NARAYAN AND OTHER FROM THE
RSS-BJS WERE ARRESTED



1974



JAYAPRAKASH NARAYAN BRINGS BHARATIYA JANA SANGH (BJS) INTO HIS MASS MOVEMENT,
BRINGING LEGITIMACY TO RSS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE GANDHI’S ASSASSINATION



1974



JAYAPRAKASH NARAYAN FORMS LOK SANGHARSH SAMITI AS THE PLATFORM LEADING HIS MASS
MOVEMENT AGAINST INDIRA GANDHI AND NAMES RSS’S NANAJI DESHMUKH AS HIS SUCCESSOR
IF HE IS ARRESTED



1974



PRIME MINISTER INDIRA GANDHI CLAMPS EMERGENCY SUSPENDING CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
MANY OPPOSITION LEADERS, INCLUDING JAYAPRAKASH NARAYAN AND OTHERS FROM THE
RSS-BJS WERE ARRESTED



5 June 1973



GOLWALKAR PASSES AWAY AT NAGPUR. MADHUKAR DATTATRAYA DEORAS BECOMES RSS’S THIRD
SARSANGHCHALAK (SUPREME LEADER)



26 February 1966



SAVARKAR PASSES AWAY



1964



VISHWA HINDU PARISHAD (VHP) IS FOUNDED BY GOLWALKAR IN COLLABORATION WITH SWAMI
CHINMAYANANDA AS PRESIDENT



21 October 1951



BHARATIYA JANA SANGH IS FORMED WITH SHYAMA PRASAD MUKHERJEE AS PRESIDENT



November 1949



RSS MOUTHPIECE ORGANIZER CRITICIZES INDIAN CONSTITUTION WRITING: “…IN OUR
CONSTITUTION, THERE IS NO MENTION OF THAT UNIQUE CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN
ANCIENT BHARAT. TO THIS DAY HIS LAWS AS ENUNCIATED IN THE MANUSMRITI EXCITE THE
ADMIRATION OF THE WORLD AND ELICIT SPONTANEOUS OBEDIENCE AND CONFORMITY. BUT TO
OUR CONSTITUTIONAL PUNDITS THAT MEANS NOTHING.”



July 1949



BAN ON RSS IS LIFTED AFTER GOLWALKAR PROMISED THEN HOME MINISTER VALLABHBHAI
PATEL THAT RSS WOULD HAVE A WRITTEN CONSTITUTION, FOREGO POLITICS AND “REMAIN
DEVOTED PURELY TO CULTURAL WORK”, AND RESPECT THE INDIAN TRICOLOR



10 February 1949



SAVARKAR IS ACQUITTED OF CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY IN GANDHI’S ASSASSINATION



December 1948



GOLWALKAR IS ARRESTED AFTER RSS ANNOUNCES A MOVEMENT AGAINST ITS BAN



5 February 1948



SAVARKAR IS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY FOR GANDHI’S ASSASSINATION



4 February 1948



INDIAN GOVERNMENT BANS RSS. ITS BAN NOTIFICATION SAYS THAT RSS WAS CARRYING OUT
“UNDESIRABLE AND EVEN DANGEROUS ACTIVITIES” AND THAT RSS MEMBERS HAD “INDULGED
IN ACTS OF VIOLENCE INVOLVING ARSON, ROBBERY, DACOITY AND MURDER AND HAVE
COLLECTED ILLICIT ARMS AND AMMUNITION. THEY HAVE BEEN FOUND CIRCULATING LEAFLETS
EXHORTING PEOPLE TO RESORT TO TERRORIST METHODS, TO COLLECT FIREARMS, TO CREATE
DISAFFECTION AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT AND SUBORN THE POLICE AND THE MILITARY.
THESE ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN CARRIED ON UNDER A CLOAK OF SECRECY …”



30 January 1948



GANDHI IS ASSASSINATED BY NATHURAM GODSE, A FORMER RSS MEMBER



15 August 1947



INDIA IS PARTITIONED AND INDIA AND PAKISTAN BECOME FREE NATIONS



14 August 1947



RSS MOUTHPIECE ORGANIZER REJECTS INDIAN TRICOLOR SAYING THE TRICOLOR WILL “NEVER
BE RESPECTED AND OWNED BY HINDUS… A FLAG HAVING THREE COLORS WILL CERTAINLY
PRODUCE A VERY BAD PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT AND IS INJURIOUS TO A COUNTRY.”



1943



HINDU MAHASABHA JOINS HANDS WITH MUSLIM LEAGUE TO FORM A GOVERNMENT IN NWFP.



1942



HINDU MAHASABHA BOYCOTTS QUIT INDIA. SAVARKAR WRITES A MEMO, “STICK TO YOUR
POSTS,” SAYING MAHASABHA MEMBERS WHO WERE “MEMBERS OF MUNICIPALITIES, LOCAL
BODIES, LEGISLATURES OR THOSE SERVING IN THE ARMY TO STICK TO THEIR POSTS” AND
NOT JOIN QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT.



1941



WITH SAVARKAR’S APPROVAL, HINDU MAHASABHA JOINS THE KRISHAK PRAJA PARTY-LED
PROGRESSIVE COALITION MINISTRY OF FAZLUL HAQ IN BENGAL



21 June 1940



HEDGEWAR PASSES AWAY; M. S. GOLWALKAR BECOMES RSS’S SECOND SARSANGHCHALAK OR
SUPREME LEADER.



1940



SAVARKAR DECLARES OPEN SUPPORT FOR HITLER’S TREATMENT OF THE JEWS AT THE HINDU
MAHASABHA ANNUAL CONFERENCE, SAYING: “THERE IS NO REASON TO SUPPOSE THAT HITLER
MUST BE A HUMAN MONSTER BECAUSE HE PASSES OFF AS A NAZI OR CHURCHILL IS A
DEMI-GOD BECAUSE HE CALLS HIMSELF A DEMOCRAT. NAZISM PROVED UNDENIABLY THE
SAVIOUR OF GERMANY UNDER THE SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES GERMANY WAS PLACED IN.”



1939



M. S. GOLWALKAR PUBLISHES “WE OR OUR NATIONHOOD DEFINED”. IN IT, HE WRITES: “TO
KEEP UP THE PURITY OF THE RACE AND ITS CULTURE, GERMANY SHOCKED THE WORLD BY HER
PURGING THE COUNTRY OF THE SEMITIC RACES — THE JEWS. RACE PRIDE AT ITS HIGHEST
HAS BEEN MANIFESTED HERE. GERMANY HAS ALSO SHOWN HOW WELL-NIGH IMPOSSIBLE IT IS
FOR RACES AND CULTURES, HAVING DIFFERENCES GOING TO THE ROOT, TO BE ASSIMILATED
INTO ONE UNITED WHOLE, A GOOD LESSON FOR US IN HINDUSTHAN TO LEARN AND PROFIT
BY.”



1935



MOONJE ESTABLISHES CENTRAL HINDU MILITARY EDUCATION SOCIETY AT NASHIK CLAIMING
ITS “TRAINING IS MEANT FOR QUALIFYING AND FITTING OUR BOYS FOR THE GAME OF
KILLING MASSES OF MEN WITH THE AMBITION OF WINNING VICTORY WITH THE BEST
POSSIBLE CAUSALITIES OF DEAD AND WOUNDED WHILE CAUSING THE UTMOST POSSIBLE TO
THE ADVERSARY”



1934



ALL INDIA CONGRESS COMMITTEE PASSES A RESOLUTION FORBIDDING CONGRESS MEMBERS
FROM BECOMING MEMBERS OF THE RSS, HINDU MAHASABHA, AND MUSLIM LEAGUE



1934



MOONJE AND HEDGEWAR DISCUSS PLAN TO MILITARIZE HINDUS ALONG ITALIAN AND GERMAN
LINES. MOONJE TELLS HEDGEWAR: “THIS IDEAL CANNOT BE BROUGHT TO EFFECT UNLESS WE
HAVE OUR OWN SWARAJ WITH A HINDU AS A DICTATOR LIKE SHIVAJI OF OLD OR MUSSOLINI
OR HITLER OF THE PRESENT DAY IN ITALY OR GERMANY… BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE
HAVE TO SIT WITH FOLDED HANDS UNTIL SOME SUCH DICTATOR ARISES IN INDIA. WE
SHOULD FORMULATE A SCIENTIFIC SCHEME AND CARRY ON PROPAGANDA FOR IT.”



1931



HINDU MAHASABHA LEADER BALAKRISHNA SHIVRAM MOONJE TELLS FASCIST ITALIAN DICTATOR
BENITO MUSSOLINI THAT HE IS IMPRESSED WITH HIS FASCIST YOUTH ORGANIZATION THAT
INDOCTRINATED BOYS AS YOUNG AS SIX-YEARS-OLD



1930



HINDU MAHASABHA DECIDES TO NOT JOIN GANDHI’S CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MOVEMENT



1929



HEDGEWAR WRITES TO RSS SHAKHAS TO WORSHIP THE BHAGWA (SAFFRON) AS THE NATIONAL
FLAG, FOLLOWING A RESOLUTION BY INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS THAT CALLED UPON
INDIANS TO OBSERVE JANUARY 26, 1930 AS INDEPENDENCE DAY BY DISPLAYING AND
HONORING THE TRICOLOR



1928



SAVARKAR’S PAMPHLET IS REPRINTED AS “HINDUTVA: WHO IS A HINDU?”



1925



RASHTRIYA SWAYAMSEVAK SANGH IS FORMED BY KESHAV BALIRAM HEDGEWAR



1924



MALAVIYA DEFENDS ORGANIZED CONVERSIONS OF MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS TO HINDUISM
CALLING IT “RECONVERSION”



1923



AT MAHASABHA’S ANNUAL SESSION AT VARANASI, MADAN MOHAN MALAVIYA CLAIMS THE
POPULATION OF HINDUS WAS DECREASING, SAYING, “IF HINDUS CEASE TO EXIST, WHO WILL
PROTECT THE SACRED THREAD (JANEU), RELIGION, VEDAS, PURANAS, COWS AND BRAHMINS?”



1923



VINAYAK DAMODAR SAVARKAR WRITES “ESSENTIALS OF HINDUTVA”, AN IDEOLOGICAL
PAMPHLET THAT ARGUES AGAINST HINDU-MUSLIM COMPATIBILITY AND SAYS INDIA BELONGS
TO HINDUS



1921



SARVADESHAK HINDU SABHA CHANGES NAME TO AKHIL BHARAT HINDU MAHASABHA



1915



SARVADESHAK HINDU SABHA IS FORMED AT THE KUMBH MELA IN HARIDWAR AND MADAN MOHAN
MALAVIYA IS NAMED PRESIDENT; MALAVIYA EMPHASIZES HINDU SOLIDARITY AND SOCIAL
REFORM



1909



PUNJAB HINDU SABHA, THE FORERUNNER TO HINDU MAHASABHA, IS FOUNDED. IT CLAIMS ITS
OBJECTIVE IS SAFEGUARDING THE INTERESTS OF HINDU COMMUNITY





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