Hindu & Buddhist Organisations

Bajrang Dal is the youth wing of the Vishva Hindu Parishad's (VHP) - a Hindu nationalist militant organization founded in 1984 by Vinay Katiyar (view Katiyar’s profile here on EMAN) in Uttar Pradesh in India. It is a part of the RSS family of right-wing Hindutva organisations. The organisation's ideology is based on Hindu supremacism and began expanding throughout India in the 2010s.

RSS is a right-wing Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation in India. The RSS is the parent organisation of a large body of organisations known as the Sangh Parivar (umbrella organisation of the RSS), which has a strong presence in many aspects of Indian society.