The Malabar riots in which millions of Hindus were persecuted by Muslims and Gandhiji's support of the Khilafat Movement, led Hedgewar to found the RSS in Nagpur, Maharashtra in 1925, with the intention of promoting the concept of Hindu nation.

Dr. Hedgewar was born on April 1, 1889 in Nagpur.

Since his arrival in Nagpur, Dr. Hedgewar was busy organizing the revolutionaries in Nagpur, under the guidance of Bhaoji Karve.

In the 1920 session of Indian National Congress held in Nagpur, Dr. Hedgewar was appointed as the Deputy Chief of volunteers cadre overseeing the whole function.

The senior Hindu Mahasabha leaders of Nagpur, Dr B. S. Moonje and Dr. L. V. Paranjpe actively supported Hedgewar in starting such an organisation.

Dr. Hedgewar Statue at the RSS office in Nagpur

Dr. Hedgewar died on the morning of June 21, 1940 in Nagpur.

Inspired by the ideology and methodology of the RSS, Golwalkar joined the RSS and eventually, following a meeting with Dr. Hedgewar, went to the RSS ' " Officers Training Camp " in Nagpur.

Hedgewar founded the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in Nagpur, Maharashtra, which grew into the largest civil organization in the country, and more potent, mainstream base of Hindu nationalism.

They became known as Gaekwads of Baroda, the Holkars of Indore and Malwa, the Scindias of Gwalior and Ujjain, Bhonsales of Nagpur.

In 1956, the Marathi-speaking areas of Madhya Pradesh, which comprised the Berar and Nagpur divisions, became part of Bombay state.

In 1956, the Indian states were reorganized along linguistic lines, and Berar and Nagpur became part of Bombay state.

In 1950 it became part of Madhya Pradesh with Nagpur as its capital.

In the 18th century, the district became part of the dominions of the Bhonsle Maratha Maharajas of Nagpur.

At the conclusion of the Third Anglo-Maratha War, the Bhonsle state of Nagpur became a princely state of British India.

In 1853, when the Bhonsle Maharaja died without a direct male heir, the British annexed the kingdom, which became the Nagpur Province of British India.

On 1 August 1955, the portions of BNR stretching from Howrah to Visakhapatnam in the South, Howrah to Nagpur in the Central area and up to Katni in the North Central Region were separated from Eastern Railway and became the South Eastern Railway.

Thus Nagpur High Court was not abolished but by a legal fiction it became High Court for the new state of Madhya Pradesh with its seat at Jabalpur.

In the 19th Century this area became a part of the Chota Nagpur Division of Bengal Presidency in British India.

He also contacted other spiritual figures, who ( along with Babajan ) he later said were the five " Perfect Masters " of the age: Hazrat Tajuddin Baba of Nagpur, Narayan Maharaj of Kedgaon, Sai Baba of Shirdi, and Upasni Maharaj of Sakori.

After India's independence, Madhya Pradesh state was created with Nagpur as its capital: this state included the southern parts of the present-day Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

In 1861, the British merged the Nagpur Province with the Saugor and Nerbudda Territories to form the Central Provinces.

After the independence of India, Madhya Pradesh was created in 1950 from the former British Central Provinces and Berar and the princely states of Makrai and Chhattisgarh, with Nagpur as the capital of the state.

On June 4, 1959, shortly after the Nagpur session of the Indian National Congress, Rajaji, along with Murari Vaidya of the newly established Forum of Free Enterprise ( FFE ) and Minoo Masani, a classical liberal and critic of socialist Nehru, announced the formation of the new Swatantra Party at a meeting in Madras.

It is well connected with metro and major cities of India like Bilaspur, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bhubaneswar, Bangalore, Vishakhapatnam, Vijaywada, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Patna, Amritsar, Nagpur, Gorakhpur, Pune, Raipur, Cuttack, Puri, Rourkela, Durg, Ajmer, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Jammu, etc.

After the death of Madhavrao, the empire gave way to a loose Confederacy, with political power resting in a ' pentarchy ' of five mostly Maratha dynasties: the Peshwas of Pune ; the Sindhias ( originally " Shinde ") of Malwa and Gwalior ; the Holkars of Indore ; the Bhonsles of Nagpur ; and the Gaekwads of Baroda.

* Bhonsales of Nagpur ( no blood relation with Shivaji's or Tarabai's family )

The Maratha-ruled states of Gwalior, Indore, and Nagpur all lost territory, and came under subordinate alliance with the British Raj as princely states that retained internal sovereignty under British ' paramountcy '.

A chance meeting with Nelson Annandale, then the director of the Zoological Survey of India, at the 1920 Nagpur session of the Indian Science Congress led to a problem in anthropology.

The Bengal Nagpur Railway was separated from the combined East Zone on 1 August 1955 to constitute the South Eastern Railway with the administrative jurisdiction extending over six divisions namely, Nagpur, Bilaspur, Chakradharpur, Kharagpur, Adra and Khurda Road.

Along with his comrades, he started the first Shakha ( unit ) of the RSS in a dilapidated Wada in Nagpur.

Often they were appointed to a single state, as with the Resident in Lucknow, the capital of Oudh ; to the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda ; to the Maharaja Sindhya of Gwalior ; to the Nizam al-Molk of Hyderabad ; to the Maharaja Rana of Jhalawar ; to the restored Maharaja of Mysore, after the fall of Tipu Sultan ; to the Maharaja Sena Sahib Subah of the Mahratta state of Nagpur ; to the ( Maha ) Raja of Manipur ; to the ( Maha ) Raja of Travancore ; to the Maharana of Mewar in Udaipur.

It was speculated that Ganguly was in disagreement with the head of cricket in Nagpur over the type of pitch to be used for the Third Test.

On 17 December 1803, Raghoji II Bhonsle of Nagpur signed the Treaty of Deogaon in Orissa with the British after the Battle of Laswari and gave up the province of Cuttack ( which included Mughalbandi / the coastal part of Orissa, Garjat / the princely states of Orissa, Balasore Port, parts of Midnapore district of West Bengal ).

The northern portion of Bhonsle's dominions in and around Nagpur, together with the Peshwa's territories in Bundelkhand, were annexed by British India as the Saugor and Nerbudda Territories.

Jenkins sent word for Colonel Adams to march to Nagpur with his troops.

It is the fifth largest township in Maharashtra after Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur and Thane with a population of about 1. 2 million.

He fell out with Fuji, however, and started home, but, by his own account, was stopped by a dream in which a figure resembling Nagarjuna appeared and said, " Go to Nagpur ".

The Saugor and Nerbudda Territories were joined with the Nagpur province to constitute the new Central Provinces in 1861.

Ambedkar died six weeks later, leaving his conversion movement leaderless, and Sangharakshita, who had just arrived in Nagpur to visit dalit Buddhists, continued what he felt was Ambedkar's work by lecturing to former Untouchables, and presiding over a ceremony in which a further 200, 000 Untouchables converted.

Many military chiefs of the Maratha Empire like Shinde, Holkar, Gaikwad, Pant Pratinidhi, Bhosale of Nagpur, Pandit of Bhor, Patwardhan, and Newalkar started to work towards their ambition of becoming kings in their respective regions.

In this office he ensured in 1915 that the Lutheran Indians be allowed to continue the work of the Leipzig-and the Goßner missions in Chota Nagpur in India, after the missions ' German missionaries had been interned.

After having graduated in Science from the Hislop college of Nagpur in 1926, he joined the famous Benaras Hindu University of Varanasi for his Master's Degree in Science, during which period the benign and inspiring influence of Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya, the founder of the University and the reputed Hindu leader of yester-years, prodded young Golwalkar to work for the Hindu cause.