Laxman Vaman Paranjpe

Laxman Vaman Paranjpe (L. V. Paranjpe) was a co-founder of the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), along with its first Sarsanghchalak Keshav Baliram Hedgewar. In the 1920 session of the Indian National Congress held in Nagpur, a volunteer organisation called Bharat Swayamsewak Mandal was formed by Paranjpe and Hedgewar, which served as an antecedent of the RSS. All the volunteers were asked to wear a uniform, which was later adopted by the RSS as its own official uniform from 1925 to 1940. Paranjpe also served as the Sarsanghchalak (1930–1931) when Hedgewar went to jail during the Forest Satyagraha.^[1]

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Sangh Parivar (RSS Family of Organisations)
Organisations	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Janata Party Swadeshi Jagaran Manch Bharatiya Kisan Sangh Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Vichara Kendra Vishwa Hindu Parishad Muslim Rashtriya Manch Rashtriya Sikh Sangat Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram Hindu Vivek Kendra Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad Bajrang Dal Durga Vahini Hindu Munnani Seva Bharati Vidya Bharati Balagokulam Vivekananda Kendra Rashtra Sevika Samiti Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad Ekal Vidyalaya
Sarsanghchalak	Keshav Baliram Hedgewar (1925–1930 and 1931–1940) Laxman Vaman Paranjpe (1930–1931) Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar (1940–1973) Madhukar Dattatraya Deoras (1973–1994) Rajendra Singh (1994–2000) K. S. Sudarshan (2000–2009) Mohan Bhagwat (2009–present)
Other Major figures	Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Balkrishna Shivram Moonje Syama Prasad Mukherjee Deendayal Upadhyaya Prabhakar Balwant Dani Babasaheb Apte S. S. Apte Moropant Pingley Madhukar Rao Bhagwat Eknath Ranade H. V. Sheshadri Dattopant Thengadi Nanaji Deshmukh Atal Bihari Vajpayee Lal Krishna Advani Murli Manohar Joshi Jana Krishnamurthi Kushabhau Thakre Narendra Modi Arun Jaitley K. N. Govindacharya Rama Jois Bal Thackeray Swami Karpatri Chinmayananda Saraswati Ashok Singhal Giriraj Kishore Praveen Togadia Ram Madhav Ramchandra Das Paramhans
Independent authors	Sita Ram Goel Ram Swarup Girilal Jain Dharampal Ram Gopal Balraj Madhok Raj Krishna Harsh Narain Swaraj Prakash Gupta Ramesh Nagaraj Rao Malati Shendge Arun Shouri Abhas Chatterjee K. S. Lal N. S. Rajaram David Frawley Koenraad Elst François Gautier Christophe Jaffrelot Rajiv Malhotra K. D. Sethna Subhash Kak Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti D. P. Agrawal Rajiv Dixit
Philosophy	Hindutva Hindu nationalism Gandhian socialism Integral humanism Akhand Bharat Uniform civil code Indigenous Aryans
Hindu nationalism	Hindutva Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad Bengali Hindu Homeland Movement Bangabhumi Hindu Rashtra Panun Kashmir Banga Sena
Topics	Persecution of Hindus Shuddhi Ram Janmabhoomi Shah Bano case Ghar Wapsi