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Akhand Bharat
Akhand Bharat is a Hindu nationalist concept that envisions the subcontinent as a single entity. It aims to reverse the 1947 Partition by including Pakistan, Bangladesh, and southern Afghanistan.
Arun Shourie (अरुण शौरी)
Arun Shourie (अरुण शौरी, born 1941) is an Indian journalist, author, and former BJP Union minister. World Bank economist turned Indian Express editor famous for the Antulay and Bofors exposés, later disinvestment minister under Vajpayee.
Bal Thackeray (बाळ केशव ठाकरे)
Bal Keshav Thackeray (बाळ केशव ठाकरे), 1926 or 1927 to 17 November 2012, was an Indian cartoonist who founded the Shiv Sena in 1966, led it on Marathi and then Hindutva politics, and left a legacy contested after the 2022 party split.
Deendayal Upadhyaya
Deendayal Upadhyaya (दीनदयाल उपाध्याय; 1916-1968), Indian politician, RSS pracharak, Jana Sangh General Secretary 1951-1967 and president 1968, author of Integral Humanism (1965), the BJP's basic philosophy.
Digvijaynath
Digvijaynath, the Mahant of the Gorakhnath Math, was an Indian political leader. He joined the Hindu Mahasabha in 1937 and was involved in the Ayodhya movement.
M. S. Golwalkar
M. S. Golwalkar (Madhav Sadashivrao Golwalkar, 1906–1973), "Guruji", second RSS sarsanghchalak 1940–1973 and Hindutva ideologue, author of We, or Our Nationhood Defined (1939) and Bunch of Thoughts (1966), distinct from Savarkar.
Mohan Bhagwat
Mohan Madhukar Bhagwat (born 1950, Chandrapur, Maharashtra) is the sixth Sarsanghchalak (chief) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh since March 2009; a veterinary doctor and former Sarkaryavah (2000) who became a pracharak during the 1975 Emergency.
Sangh Parivar
Sangh Parivar, "family of the Sangh": network of Hindu nationalist organizations rooted in the RSS (founded 1925), including the VHP (1964), BJP, ABVP, and BMS, united by Hindutva ideology.