Talk:K. B. Hedgewar/Archive 1

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There is a clear problem in this article. It says that Keshav Baliram Hedgewar was for the British, but then also goes on to say that he wanted the organization to focus on sports to defend itself against the British. Was Doctor ji for or against the British?

Terrible!This is just propaganda!I dont know enough abt Hegdevar to edit his one,but if I had to remove POV from the present article,then perhaps the whole article would vanish.So I am not doing it now.Somebody please do something!This is a challenge to wikipedia's credibility.--Sahodaran 13:13, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

The problem of finding a person with the "academic calibre" or a "researcher" is again going to cause controversies.

As such, historians of the pseudo secular type would always like to defame RSS, while others would not stand for their version of history.

So it can be written that recently a section of so called "liberal" or "anti-hindu" historians have started a campaign to malign K.B.Hedgewar's credentials by argueing that he worked for the British.

Although it is extremely evident that even if he did work under the British service for a while, he still is the creator of the biggest and longest run Nationalist movement in the history of mankind.

On similar lines, it should also be noted, that many legendary leaders of Indian National Congress (like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and Jawaharlal Nehru) had worked under the british legal system at some point or the other. They also helped the Britishers during the second world war by allowing them to plunder Indian resources even at the fag end of their rule over India. Also the partition of India, was a solution that Nehru agreed upon, and not the RSS, or its mentor. 221.128.175.84 16:13, 29 December 2005 (UTC)neoLander

who is the founder of RSS??. so it is clear that DOCTORJI and RSS are like same atma but with seperate body. it is the thoughts of doctorji took a shape of RSS.
 * haha doctorji. Gotta love titling a title.--Blacksun 22:19, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

POV
This aricle has more information on the RSS than on Hedgewar. The whole article has three or four sentences dedicated to him. I have removed some POV but the article still needs a lot of work. AreJay 16:36, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

What is this "Doctorji" business? Will the author please clean up this article? It sounds like it was picked up right out of The Organizer.--SohanDsouza 14:08, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Where's the Bio?
I can scarcely piece together his life from this write up. There's nothing about his lineage, names of his family members, where and how he died and other important background info. Does anybody agree? I suggest we scale this article up. Nshuks7 (talk) 11:05, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Indian Independent Movement
neither Hedgewar nor RSS has involved in indian independent movemnet. Then for what basis this category in this article?--Vicharam (talk) 18:44, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Keshab Chakravarthy and K. B. Hedgewar
Please see Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics. utcursch | talk 10:56, 1 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Moved comment by User:Krantmlverma from the article page
 * "Previously he was involved in such type of revolutionary activities. This fact has been disclosed by so many writers viz.
 * C.P.Bhishikar (Keshav Sangh-Nirmata page 13-14)
 * M.S. Golwalkar (Shri Guruji Samagra page 47-48)
 * K.S.Sudarshan (Shri Guruji Samgra page XXII-XXIII)
 * Rakesh Sinha (Dr.Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, published in 2003)
 * How can this be called as original research of Dr. 'Krant' M.L. Verma?" - User:Krantmlverma


 * These are all RSS-affiliated sources -- do they sources explicitly mention that he and Keshab are the same guy? I find it hard to believe that none of the reliable online articles/books about Keshab or KB Hedgewar mention such an important fact, if it's true. utcursch | talk 05:45, 15 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I just finished reading Shri Gurjui Samagra -- the book doesn't mention that Hedgewar and Chakravarthy were the same person.
 * Page XXII-XXIII mentions that Dr. Hedgewar was a member of the Anushilan Samiti.
 * Page 47-48 mentions that he was a revolutionary.
 * I was not able to find anything in this book that suggests the two people are same. [www.hvk.org/articles/0403/228.html Rakesh Sinha's book] and C. P. Bhishikar's work don't seem to contain this assertion either. Searching Hindi sources ("हेडगेवार काकोरी" combination) don't throw up any reliable sources either, except mirrors of Wikipedia article or your blog.
 * Many Wikipedians, including me, have been appreciative of your contributions to English and Hindi Wikipedias, and therefore, do not want to appear confrontative. I'll be blunt here: I think you're adding a fake reference to support your original research. I'm afraid I've to do this unpleasant task, because maintaining accuracy of articles is more important than appeasing other editors.
 * Previously, I've assumed good faith and let your content remain, adding only attribution to it. But, given above findings, I'm removing this dubious assertion altogether. Please don't add it back unless you can provide a reliable reference -- the burden of evidence lies on you. utcursch | talk 06:12, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Refimprove tag
I just added this tag, because the last three sections or so lack sources entirely. It can be removed when the issue has been addressed. Vanamonde93 (talk) 01:14, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
 * It looks like all the original authors are gone, and the links are all dead. I am adding new sources in the Further Reading section.  If nobody comes forward with sources for the existing content by 10 November 2014, I am rewriting it all based on my sources. Kautilya3 (talk) 17:39, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Can you tag the deadlinks, that way it will come under the attention of a larger audience. I will also try to repair the dead links. --AmritasyaPutra T 02:08, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Deadlinks are not the biggest problem. 99% of the article is unsourced.  Unless any of the original authors come forward and clarify where they got the content from, there is nothing that you or I can do.  (More to the point, there are two links, both of which are dead, and three books, whose details are not given.  If you can repair them, that saves 1% of the article!).  Kautilya3 (talk) 08:25, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Two dead links and three books for 22 words (1%)? --AmritasyaPutra T 08:57, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Diff I have tagged one deadlink, provided one archiveurl and added a reference. I see that there are some malformed references in the body of the article, I will try to fix them. I also tagged few sections that had no reference. Will continue the cleanup. --AmritasyaPutra T 03:48, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Please add citations for all the sentences that you can find references for. Then I can remove the remaining junk without upsetting anybody. Cheers, Kautilya3 (talk) 07:19, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Coat rack sections and OR reverted.
The coat rack material added since last talk page discussion is removed. --AmritasyaPutra T 06:33, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

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L.M.S. Examination and National Medical College
After passing the L.M.S. Examination from the National Medical College in June 1914, he completed a yearlong apprenticeship and returned to Nagpur in 1915 as a doctor. How to pass examination in 1915 from a college founded in 1921?.Akhiljaxxn (talk) 01:28, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The content is reliably sourced as it stands. If you can find other sources that throw more clarity, please feel free. - Kautilya3 (talk) 15:23, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Akhiljaxxn [[File:Smiley-XD.gif]] that is funny, thanks for pointing. Kautilya3 do you have access to this source ? The subject of the article contains many WP:SPS so we should be selective in choosing the WP:RS or else more of such funny inferences will occur. in the event of lack of WP:VERIFIABLE source, I propose to remove this piece of tidbit from the article until someone with a better source re adds it-- D Big X ray  12:56, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * There are tons of sources that say it. Somebody with local knowledge of Calcutta should be able to tell why there is a discrepancy. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 13:00, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * ok this looks reliable to me. Possibly the College was merged and renamed making this discrepancy.-- D Big X ray  13:06, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Gross mischaracterization of Hindutva
The section "ideological Roots" ends with "Veer Savarkar's treatise Hindutva, another respository (sic) of anti-Muslim sentiments". Whoever wrote this has never read the book. It is a "repository" of a search for Indian nationhood and identity. So-called "anti-Muslim" sentiments occur only in a small chapter towards the end, and it's not just random hate against Muslims. An extensive rationale is given.

I suggest striking the section's last phrase "another repository ....."Sooku (talk) 08:03, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅. I removed the phrase. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 09:21, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

What did the man do ?
The only thing we learn here about Dr. Hedgewar's work is that he founded the RSS, that he was anti-Muslim, and that he did not support the anti-British independence movement. But does that mean he liked the British, or helped them to oppress Indians? Or was his goal social rather than political? The article doesn't say. The organization he founded is now one of the world's largest, with 10 MILLION members. Surely he had something of value to say?

Are there any readers who can fill this yawning gap? Sooku (talk) 08:23, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Please free to improve the page. But please make sure you understand the verifiability and neutral point of view policies. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 09:23, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

NPOV dispute
There is not a single mention here of the early RSS leaders' direct contacts with Fascists and Nazis in Europe, which is a matter historical record, widely discussed in other Wikipedia articles. For an entry about the founding "Chief" of the movement, this is blatant lying by ommission, clear to anyone with a casual knowledge of the subject (such as myself). Someone with more in-depth knowledge should add the relevant information. As the user below points out, there is a "yawning gap" about what the man actually did -- which goes much further than just his relationship to the independence movement. 42.98.65.37 (talk) 02:48, 19 December 2022 (UTC)


 * WP:FIXIT. Anyone can edit Wikipedia. An in-depth knowledge of the subject is not required, as all edits must be supported by reliable sources. — Manti  core  02:53, 19 December 2022 (UTC)