In which decade did the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) spread from its Nagpur base to other parts of the country?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → 1930s
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) spread from its Nagpur base to the United Provinces, the Punjab and other parts of the country in the 1930s; by 1940 it had over 100,000 trained cadres.
Note: This question is taken from the chapter ‘Understanding Partition’ which was there in the pre-rationalised NCERT and has been deleted from subsequent editions of NCERT, including the NCERT book (2026-27).
NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “3.2 The provincial elections of 1937 and the Congress ministries … Incidentally, this was also the period when the Hindu Mahasabha and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) were gaining strength. The latter spread from its Nagpur base to the United Provinces, the Punjab, and other parts of the country in the 1930s. By 1940, the RSS had over 100,000 trained and highly disciplined cadres pledged to an ideology of Hindu nationalism, convinced that India was a land of the Hindus.…” |