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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Indian Hindutva paramilitary organisation
Organization paramilitary_organization Q1296075
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Summary

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is a paramilitary organization[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of paramilitary organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,617 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: India[3]
  • Instance of: political organization[4], political faction[5], militia[6]
  • Founder: K. B. Hedgewar[7]
  • Headquarters location: Nagpur[8]
  • Commons category: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh[9]
  • Inception: September 27, 1925[10]
  • Official website: http://rss.org/[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh[12]
  • Political ideology: Hindu nationalism[13], conservatism in India[14], ethnic supremacism[15], Hindutva[16]
  • Political alignment: right-wing[17], far-right politics[18], far-right[19]
  • Native label: राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ[20]
  • Different from: RSS[21]
  • Social media followers: 2,465,806[22], 3,211,471[23]
  • P14541: FtaGN[24]

Why It Matters

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Hindi Wikipedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . nybooks.com. nybooks.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . lex.dk. lex.dk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 27d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'as', 'bh', 'bn', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', '
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  2. 15w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → FtaGN
    Instance of → paramilitary organization, political organization, political faction +1
    Website → —
    Country → India
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