The Sangh Parivar is a loose "family" of organizations, which promote the ideology of Hindutva. The word parivar means family in Hindi, so the term Sangh Parivar is used to refer to the family of organisations affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Hindutva (Hinduness, a word coined by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in his 1923 pamphlet entitled Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? ) is used to describe movements advocating Hindu nationalism. ... Hindi (हिन्दी hind), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in North, Central, and West India, is the official language of the Indian Union. ... It has been suggested that RSS survey be merged into this article or section. ...

Hindutva proponents stand for more than the Hindu religion; they believe in a Hindu nation or community that includes Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists. Muslims are in general opposed to this ideology, unless they accept Hindustan, rather than the Islamic ummah, as their primary identity. Hindutva (Hinduness, a word coined by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in his 1923 pamphlet entitled Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? ) is used to describe movements advocating Hindu nationalism. ... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... Jaina redirects here. ... Buddhism is a religion and philosophy focusing on the teachings of the Buddha Śākyamuni (Siddhārtha Gautama), who probably lived in the 5th century BCE. Buddhism spread throughout the ancient Indian sub-continent in the five centuries following the Buddhas death, and propagated into Central, Southeast, and East Asia... Islam (Arabic: ; ) is a monotheistic religion based on the Quran. ... Hindustan (Hindi: हिन्दुस्तान [Hindustān], Urdu: [Hindostān], from the (Sanskrit) Hindū + -stān, archaic Hindoostan) and the adjective Hindustani may relate to various aspects of four geographic areas: Hindustan: Land of the Hindus. ... Umma (Arabic: ) is an Arabic word meaning community or nation. ...

Hindutva as a modern ideology originated in the late nineteenth century independence struggles against the British Empire. The independence movement split on the question of the rights of India's Muslims. The Sangh organizations rightly felt that too many concessions were being made to a minority. The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ...

Sangh organisations have also been strongly anti-Communist, anti-socialist, and pro-business. They are considered to be on the political "right" wing. In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply The Right, are terms that refer to the segment of the political spectrum often associated with any of several strains of conservatism, the religious right, and areas of classical liberalism, or simply the opposite of left-wing politics. ...

A Social Awakening

Sangh's work is not restricted to its outward institutional form only, but is multi-dimensional, extending beyond the boundaries of 'sanghasthan'. The aim is to activise the dormant Hindu society, to make it come out of its self-oblivion and realise its past mistakes, to instil in it a firm determination to set them right, and finally to make it bestir itself to reassert its honour and self-respect so that no power on earth dares challenge it in the days to come.

The Sangh Parivar is involved in more than 60,000 sewa (service) projects through out india http://www.sevabharathi.org/ .

Sangh organizations

Sangh Parivar organisations as of 2005 include: 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
• Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
• Bajrang Dal (BD)
• Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)
• Swadeshi Jagran Manch

It has been suggested that RSS survey be merged into this article or section. ... The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is a Hindu nationalist movement which bases itself on the principles of Hindutva. ... The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), literally meaning Indian Peoples Party, created in 1980, is one of the two major national political parties in India. ... Bajrang Dal is the youth wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP). ... The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP; World Hindu Council in Hindi), is a Hindu nationalist organisation in Bharat, an offshoot of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. ...

External references

• Audio Speech by K S Sudarshan (Chief of RSS & Head of Sangh Parivar)
• Hindu Vivek Kendra
• A "Factual" Response to the Hate Attack on the India Development and Relief Fund (IDRF)