Vijayadashami 1940 Address — M. S. Golwalkar विजयादशमी १९४०

The day

• Date: 10 October 1940 — the calendar date of Vijayadashami; our sources do not record the exact day of the gathering
• Place: Nagpur
• Address by: M. S. Golwalkar

What the address covered

This was Golwalkar's first Vijayadashami as Sarsanghchalak after Hedgewar's death in June. According to the summary in the Shri Guruji Samagra, he said a recent government notification aimed at bodies giving training had stopped the customary simollanghan programme that year. He called this an unjust blow, said no power could stop the Sangh, and urged Hindus outside it to oppose such measures. Goyal, citing a 1943 Home Department note, and Palkar both record the 1940 ban on RSS uniforms, drill and marches. In his Shastra Puja talk Golwalkar blamed Hindu decline on a lack of collective life.

Context

Route march (simollanghan) not held because of the 1940 wartime ban on uniforms and drill.

How sure is this?

This account is supported by two or more independent sources, listed below. For these years the main source is the organisation's own compilation of Golwalkar's talks (Shri Guruji Samagra), which prints edited summaries rather than verbatim transcripts.

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