Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras
Third Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras (11 December 1915 – 17 June 1996), also known as Balasaheb Deoras, was the third Sarsanghchalak (Supreme Leader) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindutva paramilitary organisation.
Biography
Madhukar Dattatraya "Balasaheb Deoras" Deoras was born in a Telugu Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin family on 11 December 1915 in Nagpur, located in British India's Central Provinces and Berar. He was the eighth child of Dattatreya Krishnarao Deoras and Parvati-bai; the ninth child, his younger brother Bhaurao Deoras (Murlidhar alias Bhaurao), also became a pracharak (propagator) of the RSS. During Deoras's tenure as RSS supreme leader, Bhaurao Deoras played a key role in the organisation in North India. Deoras was a student at New English High School. He graduated from Morris College in Nagpur in 1938 and obtained his LLB degree at the College of Law, Nagpur University. Inspired by Dr. K. B. Hedgewar, he was associated with the RSS from its inception and decided to dedicate his life to its goals.
He was the first pracharak sent to Bengal, and he returned to the movement's headquarters to direct the publication of Tarun Bharat, a Marathi daily, and Yugadharma, a Hindi daily. The Deoras brothers advocated for a more politically and socially interventionist role for the RSS to be more activistic, diverging from the insular stance maintained by then-Sarsanghachalak M. S. Golwalkar. Disillusioned with Golwalkar’s inward-looking leadership, the brothers distanced themselves from the organisation between 1953 and 1957.
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