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As a way of getting around the Government Order, the ''Boy Scouts of Bengal'' was founded, with identical aims and methods. Many separate Scout organizations began to spring up, the ''Indian Boy Scouts Association'', founded in 1916, based in [[Chennai|Madras]] and headed by Annie Besant and George Arundale; ''Boy Scouts of [[Mysore]]''; ''Boy Scouts of [[Vadodara|Baroda]]''; ''[[Nizam]]'s Scouts'' in [[Hyderabad State|Hyderabad]]; ''[[Seva Samiti]] Scout Association'' (Humanity Uplift Service Society), founded in 1917 by Madan Mohan Malaviya and Hridayanath Kunzru and based in [[Allahabad]]; the aforementioned ''Boy Scouts of [[Bengal]]'' and likely others. A conference was held in Calcutta in August 1920 in which Wilson staged a Scout Rally, and as a result the [[Governor-General of India|Viceroy of India]] sent an invitation to [[Robert Baden-Powell|Lord Baden-Powell]], by then Chief Scout of the World, to visit India. Lord and [[Olave Baden-Powell|Lady Baden-Powell]] arrived in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] in late January 1921 for a short tour of the subcontinent before leaving Calcutta for [[Yangon|Rangoon]]. Alfred Pickford accompanied them and became one of their closest friends. | As a way of getting around the Government Order, the ''Boy Scouts of Bengal'' was founded, with identical aims and methods. Many separate Scout organizations began to spring up, the ''Indian Boy Scouts Association'', founded in 1916, based in [[Chennai|Madras]] and headed by Annie Besant and George Arundale; ''Boy Scouts of [[Mysore]]''; ''Boy Scouts of [[Vadodara|Baroda]]''; ''[[Nizam]]'s Scouts'' in [[Hyderabad State|Hyderabad]]; ''[[Seva Samiti]] Scout Association'' (Humanity Uplift Service Society), founded in 1917 by Madan Mohan Malaviya and Hridayanath Kunzru and based in [[Allahabad]]; the aforementioned ''Boy Scouts of [[Bengal]]'' and likely others. A conference was held in Calcutta in August 1920 in which Wilson staged a Scout Rally, and as a result the [[Governor-General of India|Viceroy of India]] sent an invitation to [[Robert Baden-Powell|Lord Baden-Powell]], by then Chief Scout of the World, to visit India. Lord and [[Olave Baden-Powell|Lady Baden-Powell]] arrived in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] in late January 1921 for a short tour of the subcontinent before leaving Calcutta for [[Yangon|Rangoon]]. Alfred Pickford accompanied them and became one of their closest friends. | ||
The result of this visit was a union of all of the Scout organizations except the Seva Samiti Scout Association into '''The Boy Scouts Association in India'''. In 1922 Pickford returned to England and was appointed Overseas Commissioner of The Boy Scouts Association at their headquarters in London, but his aim of adding Indian boys into the program had been fulfilled.<ref>{{cite book | first = John S. | last = Wilson | author-link = J. S. Wilson | date = 1959 | title = Scouting Round the World | edition = First |publisher = Blandford Press |url=https://archive.org/details/scoutingroundwor0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up |pages=8–9}}</ref> | The result of this visit was a union of all of the Scout organizations except the Seva Samiti Scout Association into '''The Boy Scouts Association in India'''. In 1922 Pickford returned to England and was appointed Overseas Commissioner of The Boy Scouts Association at their headquarters in London, but his aim of adding Indian boys into the program had been fulfilled.<ref>{{cite book | first = John S. | last = Wilson | author-link = J. S. Wilson | date = 1959 | title = Scouting Round the World | edition = First |publisher = Blandford Press |url=https://archive.org/details/scoutingroundwor0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up |pages=8–9}}</ref> | ||
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===Sections and branches=== | ===Sections and branches=== | ||
The association is divided in four (respective three) sections according to age:<ref name="BSG-awards">{{cite web |title=Youth training |url=http://www.bsgindia.org/TRAINING.HTM|publisher=The Bharat Scouts and Guides |access-date=13 January 2007}}</ref> | The association is divided in four (respective three) sections according to age:<ref name="BSG-awards">{{cite web |title=Youth training |url=http://www.bsgindia.org/TRAINING.HTM|publisher=The Bharat Scouts and Guides |access-date=13 January 2007}}</ref> | ||