21 Facts About Hindu Mahasabha

Local forerunners of the Hindu Mahasabha emerged in connection with the disputes after the partition of Bengal in 1905 in British India.

Formation of the All India Muslim League in 1906 and the British India government's creation of separate Muslim electorate under the Morley-Minto reforms of 1909 was a catalyst for Hindu Mahasabha leaders coming together to create an organisation to protect the rights of the Hindu Mahasabha community members.

Development of the broad work for Hindu Mahasabha unity that started in the early 20th century in Punjab was a precursor for the formation of the All India Hindu Mahasabha Sabha.

Formal move to establish an umbrella All-India Hindu Mahasabha Sabha was made at the Allahabad session of Congress in 1910.

On 8 December 1913, the Punjab Hindu Mahasabha Sabha passed a resolution to create an All India Hindu Mahasabha Sabha at its Ambala session.

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Under Savarkar, the Hindu Mahasabha became a more intense critic of the Congress and its policy of wooing Muslim support.

Hindu Mahasabha later succumbed to his injuries and as revenge Bhagat Singh assassinated Saunders.

Similarly, when Mahatma Gandhi observed a fast against Communal Award, Hindu Mahasabha worked with Gandhi and other parties to ensure Poona Pact is signed and Depressed Classes are given a fair representation.

The Hindu Mahasabha officially abstained from participating in the Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930.

In Sindh, Hindu Mahasabha members joined Ghulam Hussain Hidayatullah's Muslim League government.

In Bengal, Hindu Mahasabha joined the Krishak Praja Party led Progressive Coalition ministry of Fazlul Haq in December, 1941.

Hindu Mahasabha openly opposed the call for the Quit India Movement and boycotted it officially.

Mookerjee in this letter reiterated that the Fazlul Haq led Bengal Government, along with its alliance partner Hindu Mahasabha would make every possible effort to defeat the Quit India Movement in the province of Bengal and made a concrete proposal as regards this:.

Hindu Mahasabha expressed the apprehension that the movement would create internal disorder and will endanger internal security during the war by exciting popular feeling and he opined that any government in power has to suppress it, but that according to him could not be done only by persecution.

In 2014, following the Bharatiya Janata Party's rise to power, the Hindu Mahasabha began attempts to rehabilitate Nathuram Godse and portray him as a patriot.

The Hindu Mahasabha stridently opposes Westernisation, which it regards as a decadent influence on Indian youth and culture.

The Hindu Mahasabha opposed socialism and communism as decadent foreign ideologies that do not represent India's indigenous needs and conditions.

Hindu Mahasabha requested the NDA government to give legal and administrative protection to the Hindus who attack churches.

Hindu Mahasabha justified his claim by saying that churches were only conversion factories.

Shukla promised the Hindu Mahasabha would give protection and awards to those who marry Muslim girls and attack churches.

Hindu Mahasabha said that Taj Mahal would meet the same fate as Babri masjid as it was a Shiva Temple.