https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitpavan

Chitpavans were not esteemed in social ranking, and were indeed
considered by other older brahmin castes as being an inferior caste of
Brahmins.They came in Country’s social mainstream in time somewhere
around Peshwas.

The community chitpavan brahmins remains
concentrated in Maharashtra but also has populations all over the
country and the rest of the world including the USA , UK and Canada.

After the fall of the Maratha Empire in 1818, the Chitpavans lost their
political dominance to the British. The British would not subsidize the
Chitpavans on the same scale that their caste-fellow, the Peshwas had
done in the past. Pay and power was now significantly reduced. Poorer
Chitpavan students adapted and started learning English because of
better opportunities in the British administration.

Some of the
prominent figures in the hindutva reform movements of the 19th and 20th
centuries came from the chitpavan brahmin community. These included
Dhondo Keshav Karve, Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade, Vinayak Damodar
Savarkar, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, Vinoba Bhave, and Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
These reforms preached against the Hindu caste system establishment.
Yet, some of the strongest resistance to change also came from the very
same community. Jealously guarding their brahmin stature, the orthodox
among the chitpavans were not eager to see the Shastras challenged, nor
the conduct of the brahmins becoming indistinguishable from that of the
Sudras. The vanguard and the old guard clashed many times. Ranade and
other reformers were forced to offer penance for breaking purity rules.
D. K. Karve was ostracised. Even Tilak made a visit to Varanasi so that
he may not be excommunicated.

The Chitpavan community includes
two major politicians in the Gandhian tradition: Gopal Krishna Gokhale
whom Gandhi acknowledged as a preceptor, and Vinoba Bhave, one of his
outstanding disciples. Gandhi describes Bhave as the Jewel of his
disciples, and recognized Gokhale as his political guru. However, strong
opposition to Gandhi also came from within the chitpavan community. V D
Savarkar, the founder of the hindutva rashtra political ideology
hindutva, was a chitpavan brahmin. Several members of the chitpavan
community were among the first to embrace the hindutva ideology, which
they thought was a logical extension of the legacy of the Peshwas and
caste-fellow Tilak. These Chitpavans felt out of place with the Nation’s
social reform movement of Mahatama Phule . Large numbers of the
community looked to Savarkar, the Hindu Mahasabha and finally the RSS.
Gandhi’s assassins Narayan Apte and Nathuram Godse, drew their
inspiration from fringe groups in this reactionary trend.

America enlisted RSS in one of the Biggest Terrorist Organisation in the World

A US-based risk management and consulting company has put the
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in its category of ‘Threat Group’ and
called it “a stealth, shadowy, discriminatory group that seeks to
establish a hindutva rashtra, a Hindu Nation.”

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The websites describes: “The RSS is a stealth,
shadowy, discriminatory group that seeks to establish a hindutva
rashtra, a . The group is considered the radical ideological parent
group of Bahuth Jiyadha Psychopaths (BJP).”

“The RSS is a non
entity unregistered movement, a group that was founded in 1925. Their
philosophy, called hindutva and their main demand of Murderer of
democratic institutions (Modi) was that it stop appeasing Muslims,” the
description continues, adding, “hindutva has been translated to mean
variously: hindutva pride, patriotism, fundamentalism, revivalism,
chauvinism, or fascism. The group self-justifies by ‘asserting the
natural rights’.”

In its ‘Intel analysis,’ it further adds, “The
RSS was banned in 1948 following the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by
an ex-RSS member, Nathuram Godse. ”

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Describing violence as ‘Group Activities’ for the RSS, the site further
says, “Violence has been a strategy for the Sangh movement. It is often
couched as a method of self-defense against minority groups. hindutva
has been clear about the need for violence, particularly communal riots.
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religions, and thus a further separation of religions, and to rally the
hindutva community around the philosophy of hindutva.”

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