Question

What were functions of mahasabha

Answer 1

Answer:

The Hindu Mahasabha (officially Akhil Bhārat Hindū Mahāsabhā or All-India Hindu Grand-Assembly) is a political party in India.[15][16]

The organisation was formed to protect the rights of the Hindu community, after the formation of the All India Muslim League in 1906[17] and the British India government's creation of separate Muslim electorate under the Morley-Minto reforms of 1909.[17][18]

Contents

1 Name

2 History

2.1 Antecedents

2.2 Establishment

2.3 Indian freedom movement

2.3.1 Civil Disobedience Movement

2.3.2 Alliance with Muslim League and others

2.3.3 Quit India Movement

2.4 Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi

3 Attempts at rehabilitation of Godse

4 Ideology

4.1 Hindutva

4.2 Current ideological positions

5 References

6 Further reading

7 External links

Name

The organisation was originally called Sarvadeshak Hindu Sabha ("Hindu Assembly for the entire country"). In 1921, it changed to the present name Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha ("All-India Hindu Grand Assembly").[19]

History

Antecedents

Local forerunners of the Hindu Mahasabha emerged in connection with the disputes after the partition of Bengal in 1905 in British India. Under the then viceroy Lord Curzon, the division of the province of Bengal was in two new provinces of East Bengal and Assam, as well as Bengal. The new province of Bengal had a Hindu majority, the province of East Bengal and Assam was mostly Muslim. The division was justified by the British for administrative reasons.

The formation of the All India Muslim League in 1906[17] and the British India government's creation of separate Muslim electorate under the Morley-Minto reforms of 1909[18] was a catalyst for Hindu leaders coming together to create an organisation to protect the rights of the Hindu community members.[17]

In April 2015, the general secretary of the Hindu Mahasabha Munna Kumar Shukla claimed  that it is not illegal to attack a church and it does not violate any law.[49] He requested the NDA government to give legal and administrative protection to the Hindus who attack churches. He justified his claim by saying that churches were only conversion factories. Shukla also promised the Mahasabha would give protection and awards to those who marry Muslim girls and attack churches. He also said that Taj Mahal would meet the same fate as Babri masjid as it was a Shiva Temple.[50]

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Answer 2

Under Malaviya, the Mahasabha campaigned for Hindu political unity, for the education and economic development of Hindus as well as for the conversion of Muslims to Hinduism. In the late 1920s, the Mahasabha came under the influence of leaders like Balakrishna Shivram Moonje and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.