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'''Bharatiya Jana Sangh''' was an [[India]]n right wing political party that existed from 1951 to 1977 and was the political arm of [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]], a [[Hindutva|Hindu nationalist]] volunteer organisation. Later Jana Sangh succeeded by [[Bharatiya Janata Party]].<ref name="Low1968">{{citation|editor=Donald Anthony Low|title=Soundings in Modern South Asian History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WfD02m8q8eYC&pg=PA372|year=1968|publisher=University of California Press|pages=372–|id=GGKEY:6YPJXGZBWJQ}}</ref> | '''Bharatiya Jana Sangh''' was an [[India]]n right wing political party that existed from 1951 to 1977 and was the political arm of [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]], a [[Hindutva|Hindu nationalist]] volunteer organisation. Later Jana Sangh succeeded by [[Bharatiya Janata Party]].<ref name="Low1968">{{citation|editor=Donald Anthony Low|title=Soundings in Modern South Asian History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WfD02m8q8eYC&pg=PA372|year=1968|publisher=University of California Press|pages=372–|id=GGKEY:6YPJXGZBWJQ}}</ref> | ||
==Origins== | |||
[[File:Syama Prasad Mookerjee.jpg|thumb|right|[[Syama Prasad Mukherjee]], founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh]] | |||
After 1949, members of the right-wing Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) began to contemplate the formation of a political party to continue their work, begun in the days of the [[British Raj]], and take their ideology further. Around the same time, [[Syama Prasad Mukherjee]] left the [[Hindu Mahasabha]] political party that he had once led because of a disagreement with that party over permitting non-Hindu membership.{{sfn|Urmila Sharma|SK Sharma|2001|p=381}}{{sfn|Kedar Nath Kumar|1990|pp=20–21}}{{sfn|Islam|2006b|p=227}} The BJS was subsequently started by Mukherjee on 21 October 1951<ref>{{cite web|title=Founding of Jan Sangh|url=http://www.bjp.org/en/about-the-party/history?u=founder |website=www.bjp.org |access-date=25 January 2019}}</ref> in [[Delhi]], with the collaboration of the RSS, as a "nationalistic alternative" to the [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]].<ref name=IEGuinha>{{cite news|title=Revive Jan Sangh -- BJP hardlines|url=http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/20000118/ina18037.html|access-date=11 October 2013|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|date=18 January 2000|author=Sharad Gupta|author2=Sanjiv Sinha|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012195411/http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/20000118/ina18037.html|archive-date=12 October 2013}}</ref> | |||
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