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	Vishva Hindu Parishad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was decided at the meeting that the name of the proposed organisation would be Vishva Hindu Parishad and that a world convention of Hindus was to be held at Prayag (Allahabad) during Kumbha Mela of 1966 to launch the organisation.
		The VHP leaders claimed their mission was to guard and defend the entire Hindu faith and communities all over the country.
		While elderly leaders like Acharya Giriraj Kishore and Ashok Singhal led the VHP from the 1970s, the reins of the organisation in the 21st century seems to be passing to a younger, more radical and vigorous generation, headed by Praveen Togadia, a Gujarati oncologist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vishwa_Hindu_Parishad (1954 words)

	Encyclopedia: Vishwa Hindu Parishad
		The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP; "World Hindu Council" in Hindi), is a Hindu nationalist organisation in Bharat, an offshoot of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
		It was decided at the meeting that the name of the proposed organisation will be Vishva Hindu Parishad and that a world convention of Hindus be held at Prayag (Allahabad) during Kumbha Mela of 1966 to launch the organisation.
		While elderly leaders like Acharya Giriraj Kishore and Ashok Singhal led the VHP from the 1970s, the reins of the organization in the 21st century seems to be passing to a younger, radical and vigorous generation, headed by Praveen Togadia, a Gujarati oncologist.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Vishwa-Hindu-Parishad (3045 words)

	Vishwa Hindu Parishad - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP; "World Hindu Council" in Hindi), is a Hindu nationalist organisation in India, an offshoot of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
		VHP has often been crticized by Hindus and non-Hindus alike.
		Many Hindus mock at its idea of Hindu Rashtravaad (Hindu Nationalism), because Hinduism believes in Vasudhaiva Kutumbkam (The whole world is my family) and therefore it is opposed to nationalism.
	open-encyclopedia.com /VHP (147 words)

	Hinduism Today \| Jan 1993
		The work of this VHP volunteer band is the stuff of movies - twilight scenes of whole families in rural Rajasthan villages burning former beliefs in makeshift ceremonial conversion fires that welcome the newcomers into a new theological world.
		The VHP responded by sending in a small army of volunteers, a powerful show of strength, openly threatening the Muslim villagers that any further maltreatment of converts would be met force with force.
		VHP volunteers are of course saddened by all instances of personal suffering, but not dampened in their resolve to restore as many as they can to India's indigenous faith.
	www.hinduism-today.com /archives/1993/01/1993-01-02.shtml (943 words)

	IS HINDUISM A RELIGION?
		Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Supreme Court of India seem to think that Hinduism is not a religion but a way of life.
		Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the self-declared defenders of Hinduism, are also of the same opinion that Hinduism is not a religion but a "way of life" and nothing more.
		Vishwa Hindu Parishad and all organizations of the RSS clan want to use the word "Dharma" instead of religion without realizing that the word "Dharma" as distinct from religion has no legal sanctity and grants no constitutional privileges.
	www.samarthbharat.com /religion.htm (2136 words)

	VISHWA HINDU PARISHAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (V.H.P) was established in the year 1964.
		The V.H.P. is a religious, social and seva-based organisation.
		One of the great achievements of V.H.P. is its success in bringing together not only the religious heads of various denominations (sampradayas) of Hindu society but also thousands of sadhus and sanyasis on a single platform called Dharmasamsad where they meet and deliberate about the several problems of Hindus in general.
	www.hssworld.org /seva/sevadisha/sevadisha1/vishwa_hindu_parishad.html (398 words)

	Vishva Hindu Parishad
		V.H.P. has built more than 160 small temples in these areas and Hindus can now perform their religious ceremonies in these temples.
		It has also created confidence amongst harijans that Hinduism is no more dogmatic and that GOD has come to their doors to embrace them.
		V.H.P. has been able to engage dedicated workers, who are serving the poor.
	www.vhp.org /englishsite/d.Dimensions_of_VHP/aSewa/NSNS/intheserviceofpoor.htm (1567 words)

	Onlinevolunteers.org - Gujarat Carnage: The Aftermath: News: Archive (February, 2003)
		The Hindu Jagran Manch, which is spearheading the movement on Dhar Bhojshala issue has rejected the recommendations made by the district administration on reopening of the disputed Dhar Bhojshala on Friday and has decided to continue its agitation till 'its demands' are met in toto.
		The firebrand VHP propagandist, Praveen Togadia, doesn’t seem to have realised that the BJP uses vitriol as a tactical weapon, to be used as and when the occasion demands, and not all the time.
		The Vishwa Hindu Parishad today backtracked on support for a United States-led war on Iraq and on its demand that the entire piece of acquired land in Ayodhya, including the disputed area, be handed over to the VHP-controlled Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas after the Government expressed its annoyance.
	www.onlinevolunteers.org /gujarat/news/index-arch13.htm (4575 words)

	The Hindu : VHP plans campaign on `Hindu agenda'
		The regional organising secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Keshava Hegde, said on Thursday that the VHP would launch a campaign to make voters aware of the "Hindu agenda" and urge them to vote for it.
		To make the workers of the VHP and Bajrang Dal aware of the agenda, a district-level conference would be held here on March 28, Mr.
		The president of the district unit of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Raghavendra Acharya, said the voters' awareness programme in the district would be held from March 28 to April 20.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2004/03/06/stories/2004030610230300.htm (273 words)

	Vishva Hindu Parishad
		In the Hindus of the world a sense of duty and obligation to the society which of late is fast disappearing requires to be regenerated on the basis of our Dharma.
		The Hindus who live in distant lands need not only inspiration but effective aid to rejoin the bond of love and regain their faith in the practice of the Hindu ways of life, which have been gradually weakening.
		A very recent attempt at uniting the Hindu society, protecting and spreading its religion and culture, is the formation of the Vishva Hindu Parishad which is steadily gaining ground.
	allahabadtimes.8k.com /vishva_hindu_parishad.htm (6143 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Profile: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad
		The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) was founded in 1964 by a group of senior leaders from a hard-line Hindu organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), to give Hindus what they believed would be a clearly defined sense of religious identity and political purpose.
		The VHP has tended to tone down the rhetoric of Hindu supremacy and even make an occasional distinction between fellow (Muslim) citizens of the present and (Muslim) 'marauders' of the past.
		The dalits, for centuries beholden to the upper castes, outraged Hindu hardliners by daring to convert at all, and moreover, convert to Islam.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/1860202.stm (641 words)

	HINDU DHARMA FOR BRITISH TEACHERS
		Hinduism lacks any central philosophical basis and can not be subject to any academic study.
		The galaxy of authors and editors seems to be confused from the outset whether to treat Hinduism as a faith or as a way of life or as a religion or as a Dharma (which is most convenient since nobody seems to be knowing its meaning.
		It seems that the authors, in their attempt to please the wealthy Jains and Vaishnavs, have never noticed the fact that Hinduism is the only religion in the world where the gods carry arms.
	www.samarthbharat.com /vhphindu.htm (1647 words)

	The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Tiruchi News : Sangh Parivar outfits form human chain
		Nearly 200 volunteers of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bharathiya Janata Party, Hindu Munnani, and other Sangh Parivar outfits, today formed a human chain along the West Boulevard Road here today demanding immediate release of the Acharya of the Sri Kanchi Mutt, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal, and withdrawal of murder charges against him.
		Led by the joint State general secretary of the VHP, N. Gopalarathinam, the volunteers shouted slogans condemning the double standards adopted by politicians on the issue.
		They assailed the DMK president, M. Karunanidhi, for his statement welcoming the arrest of the Acharya, and the Chief Minister, J. Jayalalithaa, for her contention that the arrest was appreciated by the people in the State.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2004/11/21/stories/2004112111540300.htm (221 words)

	The Vishwa Hindu Parishad, an anti-social stronghold in our society
		The Vishwa Hindu Parishad, an RSS outfit, today stated that the recent incidents of violence against the Christian missionaries in Jhabua and Baghpat were the result of 'anger of patriotic Hindu youth against anti-national forces'.
		It was the VHP which spearheaded the agitation, got various Hindu priests together on a platform, built the public mood, before the BJP stepped in to encash this as votes.
		The VHP statement on the Christian missionaries thus reflects the RSS view on the matter, for the RSS, like the BJP, has not yet given up its demand related to the Gyan Vapi mosque in Kashi and the Idgah in Mathura - that these should be handed over to the 'Hindus'.
	www.geocities.com /appiusforum/VHP.html (587 words)

	Hindutva Series : Hindu History - A Search for Our Present in History
		And this is why Hinduism is called a Living Idea, guided by the sum total of human wisdom that is not considered to be embodied in one person, or one book, or one period of human history.
		If Hindu Cosmogony is to be believed, Shiva-Nataraj symbolizes not merely the rhythm of physical force of a dancer; but also the cosmic process of creation, renewal and destruction of life.
		According to the Hindu concept, life was divided into the four stages of Brahmacharya (childhood and celibate youth), Grihasta (householder), Vanaprastha (householder who has begun his quest for spiritual pursuits) and Sanyasin (a person who has given up wordly attachments in search of spiritual quest).
	newsanalysis-intl.tripod.com (3491 words)

	Vishwa Hindu Parishad lays siege to Parliament- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		NEW DELHI: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad struck a combative note on Monday asking thousands of religious leaders gathered for a dharna to prepare for sacrifice and another "Mahabharat", as they declared a war on secularism.
		The VHP and religious leaders of the Ramjanmbhoomi movement, who have been fighting shy of talking dates, said a temple would be built in the next one-and-a-half years and if the "undisputed" land was not handed over to them by March 25 next, they would intensify their stir.
		VHP leader Pravin Togadia, set the tone with a fiery speech, describing the planned satyagrah in March as the "last religious war", warned: "We will come again on March 27, and bring the country’s people with us.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-38455290,prtpage-1.cms (581 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Reconversion to Hinduism is not conversion, says VHP
		The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has stepped up its demand for the enforcement of a legislation banning conversions in the country.
		Meanwhile, Kakade reiterated the VHP stand that the organisation was in no way responsible for the attacks on churches in Dangs district of south Gujarat.
		However, when queried whether the VHP supported the HJM, Kakade replied in the affirmative, saying that the VHP would support any organisation that was committed to upholding the interests of Hinduism.
	inhome.rediff.com /news/1999/jan/12vhp.htm (398 words)

	Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America -Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Parishad programs touch all the members of the family.
		Parishad is working to instill a true Human pride in its members thus bringing closer to reality the American dream of a Kinder, Gentler Nation.
		Parishad adds enrichment and cultural awareness to American society, based on time tested Eternal Hindu values.
	www.hindunet.org /alt_hindu/1994/msg00773.html (749 words)

	MacroScan - The Dubious Longevity of the Right Wing
		A news report on page 13 of The Hindu newspaper of January 22 quotes the Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader, Pravin Togadia, who was speaking at a press conference in Kolkata, as follows: "Time has come to reject Gandhi (Mahatma) and Karl Marx.
		Elsewhere in India, the Hindu right may actually be misreading the mood of the electorate.
		If we assume that the Hindu right will not be cynical enough to spark off such incidents in order to ensure that communal sentiments remain dominant, then the likelihood is that these concerns will be replaced by those that directly affect the everyday lives of people.
	www.macroscan.com /cur/jan03/cur240103Right_Wing.htm (959 words)

	Qalandar - Book Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Consisting of a motley crew of Hindu priests, the VHP is today in the forefront of the campaign to convert India into a Hindu state, where non-Hindus would be relegated to second-class citizen status or worse.
		The construction of the notion of a single ‘Hindu’ community transcending caste, sectarian and regional barriers, she says, is itself a fairly recent phenomenon, the roots of which can be traced to the early nineteenth century.
		The VHP was founded in the early 1960s by the RSS in an effort to rope in Hindu priests for its agenda of establishing a fascist Hindu state in India.
	www.islaminterfaith.org /may2003/bookreview.html (4076 words)

	VISHWA HINDU PARISHAD , NORWAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		VHP has its own meeting place called HINDU KENDRA with a seating capacity of about 70 persons.
		VHP have committed to celebrate at least two festivals in big gathering and these are Holi and Deepawali in which most of the Indians living in Norway are invited.VHP also organises a camp once a year in Norway.
		Dharmik Karyakaram: On every last Sunday of the month,there is gathering in Hindu Kendra and a Dharmik Karyakaram is held after that Preeti Bhojan is served to everyone.
	www.geocities.com /vhpnorway/activities.html (137 words)

	"The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bajrang Dal are like Nazi stormtroopers" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At the moment, the criticism against the Hindu right-wingers is more shadowboxing than a real confrontation because there is no respectable rightwing scholar who can explain the BJP view of history, if it has any.
		The Hindu fascists again want to portray the wars between the Mughals and the Marathas as one between Muslims and Hindus, which it is not.
		For the Hindu fascists to think of themselves as "Aryans" is as foolish as present-day Greeks to think of themselves as direct descendants of Homeric Greeks.
	www.dalitstan.org /journal/hindutwa/htv001/htva0008.html (1803 words)

	KNOW YOUR HINDU FUNDAMENTALISM : BRAHMANIC TERRORIST ORGANISATIONS - THE SANGH PARIVAR : Arya Samaj, RSS, VHP, BJP, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is in the forefront in the call for a Hindu Rashtra, a Hindu State ethnically cleansed of its non-Aryan populations.
		The militant wing of the VHP, it was formed "to counter `Sikh militancy' " during the Sikh Genocide of 1983-84 [ Bajrang ].
		Jan Sangh, the Hindu Mahasabha and the Ram Rajya Parishad was 10 seats with 6.4 per cent of the votes.
	www.dalitstan.org /journal/politics/hindutva/what.html (1567 words)

	Hindu Awakening - The Need of the Hour
		The VHP is running a campaign against conversion by the Christians.
		It is precisely because of the catholicity of Hinduism that the Guru
		Parishad has lost itself in the quicksand of bigotry.
	www.groupsrv.com /religion/viewtopic.php?p=474018 (891 words)

	rediff.com: The Rediff Interview/Ashok Singhal, international working President of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In an interview to Shahid K Abbas, he stressed that the Ram temple movement had become a matter of self-respect for Hindus all over the world and the Hindu society should be ready for any kind of sacrifices, for the reconstruction of the temple.
		Now the BJP has to see that the sentiments of the Hindus are given importance.
		Hindus are one so far the Dharma is concerned.
	www.indiaabroad.rediff.com /news/2002/feb/02inter.htm (1496 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		PATNA: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad's (VHP) international general secretary Praveen Togadia's scheduled Patna visit was not related to "trishul diksha" as being projected in a section of media.
		VHP central secretariat member Y Raghavallu said this while talking to mediaperson here on Thursday at the south Bihar VHP headquarters here at Rajendra Nagar.
		PATNA: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad's (VHP) international general secretary Praveen Togadia's scheduled Patna visit was not related to "trishul diksha" as being projected in a section of media.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow?msid=94517 (823 words)

	Vishwa Hindu parishad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Even as his concern about the security of the country from external threats was paramount, his anxiety was no less in the reforms to be brought about in the society from within.
		Many a great Hindu social thinker felt the need for a forum for bringing the Hindus of the world together.
		Vishwa Hindu Parishad was thus founded on the Krishna Janmashtami day in 1964.
	www.freeindia.org /biographies/greatleaders/golwalkar/page15.htm (302 words)

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