ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how this perspective played out organisationally in Bihar. In 1927 leaders like Rajendra Prasad, Braj Kishore Prasad, A. N. Sinha and S. K. Sinha constituted the Bihar Provincial Hindu Mahasabha (BPHMS) Swami Shraddhanand Memorial Fund committee, and were signatories to an appeal to Bihari Hindus to contribute for shuddhi, sangathan and achutoddhar. In the early 1920s, Rajendra Prasad felt that sangathan was a prerequisite for the transformation of the ‘Hindu race’ into a ‘virile’ organisation for the assertion of their community rights. Though several zamindars supported Hindu organisations, shuddhi and sangathan initiatives faced their opposition because they were seen as making lower castes, such as Gwalas, more assertive. Around this time the BPHMS was looking at publishing a series of books on subjects like Akhand Bharat, against the Hindu Code Bill and the ban on the Satyartha Prakash.
