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{{short description|RSS-affiliated student organisation}}
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{{Infobox organization
| name = Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad <br/> (ABVP)
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| logo_caption = Official logo of the ABVP
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| formation = {{start date and age|1949|07|09}}
| type = [[Student organisation]]
| status = Active
| purpose = Student Activism, National Reconstruction
| headquarters = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]
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| region_served = [[India]]
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| leader_title = National President
| leader_name = Raghuraj Kishore Tiwari <ref>{{cite news |title=Raghuraj Kishore Tiwari elected abvp national president, Virender Singh Solanki re-elected national general secretary |url=https://m.economictimes.com/news/india/raghuraj-tiwari-from-rewa-is-new-abvp-president-virendra-solanki-reelected-gen-sec/articleshow/125276817.cms/ |work=The Economic Times |agency=PTI |date=12 November 2025 |access-date=28 November 2025}}</ref>
| leader_title2 = National General Secretary
| leader_name2 = Virendra Singh Solanki
| leader_title3 = National Organising Secretary
| leader_name3 = Ashish Chauhan
| parent_organization = [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS)
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| membership = 76,98,448 <ref>{{cite news |title=ABVP's national meet inaugrated in Doon, membership reaches 76.9L
|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/abvps-national-meet-inauguratedin-doon-membership-reaches-76-9l/articleshow/125643461.cms|work=The Times of India|agency=PTI |date=29 November 2025 |access-date=28 November 2025}}</ref>
| membership_year = 2025-26
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| website = {{URL|www.abvp.org}}
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{{Bharatiya Janata Party sidebar}}
The '''Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad''' ('''ABVP''') is a student organisation in India, which was established in 1949. It's a significant student body with over 5 million members, making it one of the largest student organisations in the world. ABVP is a student wing of [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS), a [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] [[Hindutva]] and [[nationalist]] organisation.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bhowmick |first=Nilanjana |date=21 June 2017 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/06/21/indias-crackdown-at-college-campuses-is-a-threat-to-democracy/?noredirect=on |title=India's crackdown at college campuses is a threat to democracy |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=24 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Protests by BJYM, ABVP mar ICET counselling |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/Protests-by-BJYM-ABVP-mar-ICET-counselling/article14795807.ece |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=17 July 2007 |access-date=24 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Dubey |first1=Priyanka |date=October 2017 |url=https://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/age-of-abvp |title=The age of ABVP |magazine=[[The Caravan]] |access-date=30 December 2019}}</ref>

==History==
The ABVP, founded in 1948 with the initiative of the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh|RSS activist]] [[Balraj Madhok]], was formally registered on 9 July 1949.<ref name="Official"/><ref name="Jaffrelot2010">{{cite book|author=Christophe Jaffrelot|title=Religion, Caste, and Politics in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAO3i_gS61wC&pg=PA193|year=2010|publisher=Primus Books|isbn=978-93-80607-04-7|page=193}}</ref> Its purpose when founded was to counter communist influence on university campuses.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAO3i_gS61wC|title=Religion, Caste, and Politics in India|author=Christophe Jaffrelot|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Primus Books|isbn=9789380607047|page=47|language=en}}</ref> [[Yashwantrao Kelkar]], a lecturer in [[Mumbai|Bombay]], became its main organiser in 1958. According to the ABVP website, he built the organisation into what it is now and is considered to be 'the real architect of the ABVP'.<ref name="Official">{{cite web|url=http://www.abvp.org/about/|title=About|website=Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad|access-date=4 March 2016|archive-date=16 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616223630/http://abvp.org/about|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Various branches of the ABVP have been involved in Hindu-Muslim communal riots since 1961.<ref name="kaiwar239">{{Cite book |last1=Mazumdar |first1=Sucheta |chapter=Politics of religion and national origin |title=Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation |editor1=Vasant Kaiwar |editor2=Sucheta Mazumdar |date=21 April 2003 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=0822330466 |page=239 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haJl-fvKqCcC&pg=PA239 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Violette |last1=Graff |first2=Juliette |last2=Galonnier |title=Hindu-Muslim Communal Riots in India I (1947-1986), Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence |publisher=[[Sciences Po]] |year=2013 |url=http://www.massviolence.org/IMG/article_PDF/Hindu-Muslim-Communal-Riots-in,736.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130824023819/http://www.massviolence.org/IMG/article_PDF/Hindu-Muslim-Communal-Riots-in,736.pdf |archive-date=24 August 2013}}</ref> However, in the 1970s, the ABVP also increasingly took on issues concerning the lower middle classes like corruption and government inertia.<ref name="kaiwar239"/> The ABVP played a leading role in the agitational politics of the 1970s during the [[Bihar Movement]]. Many leaders like, [[Yashwantrao Kelkar]], [[Dattopant Thengadi]], [[Manmohan G. Vaidya]], Sunil Ambekar, played an instrumental role in expanding ABVP's presence in campuses across India.This led to collaboration among student activists in Gujarat and Bihar. The ABVP gained significantly from such efforts after [[The Emergency (India)|the Emergency]] and experienced a growth in membership.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAO3i_gS61wC|title=Religion, Caste, and Politics in India|last1=Jaffrelot|first1=Christophe|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Primus Books|isbn=9789380607047|page=193|language=en}}</ref>

By 1974, the ABVP had 160,000 members across 790 campuses and had gained control over several prominent universities, including [[Delhi University]] via student elections. By 1983, the organisation had 250,000 members and 1,100 branches.<ref name="kaiwar239"/> ABVP grew during the 1990s, receiving more support as a result of the [[Demolition of the Babri Masjid|Babri Masjid demolition]] and the economic liberalisation pursued by the [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]] government. It continued to grow after the [[United Progressive Alliance]] came to power in 2003, trebling in membership to 3.175 million members as of 2016.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/jnu-protests-jnusu-behind-abvp-confidence-govt-and-growth-rohith-vemula/ |title=JNU row: Behind ABVP's confidence, govt and growth |first=Deeptiman |last=Tiwary |publisher=The Indian Express |date=24 February 2016 |access-date=28 June 2016}}</ref>

== Links to the BJP==
The ABVP spokespersons insist that the ABVP is not affiliated to the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP). It is described as the "student wing" of the RSS.<ref>[http://abvp.org/akhil-bhartiya-vidyarthi-parishad-not-students-wing-bjp-shreehari-borikar Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad is not the students' wing of BJP: Shreehari Borikar], Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad web site, retrieved 22 April 2018.
</ref> However, both the BJP and the ABVP are members of the [[Sangh Parivar]].<ref>{{citation |last1=Spitz |first1=Douglas |title=The Rising Tide of Cultural Pluralism: The Nation-state at Bay? |url=https://archive.org/details/risingtideofcult00youn/page/242 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/risingtideofcult00youn/page/242 242–264] |year=1993 |editor=Crawford Young |chapter=Cultural Pluralism, Revivalism, and Modernity in South Asia: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rltc46FaQsYC&pg=PA242 |publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press |isbn=978-0-299-13884-4 |ref={{sfnref|Spitz, Cultural Pluralism, Revivalism and Modernity in South Asia|1993}}}}.</ref> The BJP is said to gain handsomely from the ABVP's support base and several politicians of the BJP, including the current Home Minister [[Amit Shah]] and former Finance Minister [[Arun Jaitley]], had their ideological foundation in the ABVP.<ref name=CatchNews>Atul Chandra, [http://www.catchnews.com/politics-news/a-string-of-losses-on-campuses-across-india-is-the-abvp-the-bjp-losing-its-appeal-among-students-90912.html A string of losses on campuses across India: Is the ABVP losing its appeal among students?], Catch News, 29 November 2017.</ref> Several scholars make no distinction between the RSS and the [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]], and regard the ABVP as a student wing of both of them or either of them.<ref>
{{cite journal |last1=Sonntag |first1=Selma K. |title=The political saliency of language in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh |journal=The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics |volume=34 |issue=2 |year=1996 |pages=1–18 |doi=10.1080/14662049608447722}}: "Protests and ''lathi''-charges continued throughout January, the former organised by a transitory student organisation...although the role of the BJP-affiliated ABVP student union seems to have been more conspicuous."</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Thapar |first1=Romila |title=Banning Books |journal=India Review |volume=13 |issue=3 |year=2014 |pages=283–286 |doi=10.1080/14736489.2014.937277|s2cid=214654999 }}: "Thus, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), currently in power in India, demanded the removal of an essay by A. K. Ramanujan from the reading-list of the History syllabus for the BA Degree at Delhi University."
</ref><ref>Amaresh Misra, Growing Social Unrest, [[Economic and Political Weekly]], Vol. 32, No. 12 ( 22–28 Mar 1997), pp. 571-573, {{JSTOR|4405193}}: "To pre-empt this, the ABVP (the student wing of the RSS and the BJP) and allied forces let loose the spectre of violence which the administration, instead of controlling, instigated further."</ref><ref>Navneet Sharma and Anamica, "[http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article7310.html Imbecility and Impudence: The Emergency and RSS]", Mainstream Weekly, VOL LV, No 30, 16 July 2017: "The ideological parent of the BJP, the RSS, and its student wing, the ABVP, have their own crucial role in the BJP's anti-democratic-secular India agenda."</ref>

In 2017, the ABVP faced a string of losses in student body elections. They included not only Delhi's [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] and [[Delhi University]], but also the [[University of Allahabad]] and [[Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith]] in Uttar Pradesh, the [[Gujarat University]] and the [[Gauhati University]]. The loss in the Kashi Vidyapeeth was considered significant since it is in [[Varanasi]], prime minister [[Narendra Modi]]'s home constituency. This is said to have caused alarm in the BJP, which set up a committee to study the issues causing the ABVP's decline.<ref name=CatchNews/><ref>[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/varanasi/abvp-loses-student-union-polls-on-pm-modi-turf/articleshow/61514187.cms ABVP loses student union polls on PM Modi turf], The Times of India, 5 November 2017.</ref>
ABVP bounced back in 2018 by winning the key posts of president, vice-president and joint secretary of students polls of [[Delhi University]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/abvp-wins-presidents-two-other-posts-in-dusu-polls-nsui-one/articleshow/65800960.cms?from=mdr|title=ABVP wins president's, two other posts in DUSU polls, NSUI one|date=14 September 2018|newspaper=The Economic Times}}</ref> ABVP won all six seats in the Hyderabad Central University students union polls after eight years in 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/abvp-sweeps-hyderabad-university-students-union-polls-after-8-years-1357810-2018-10-07|title=ABVP sweeps Hyderabad University students' union polls after 8 years|agency=Ist|newspaper=India Today |date=7 October 2018 |access-date=14 February 2020}}</ref>

==Activities==
The ABVP's manifesto includes agendas such as educational and university reforms.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article3884573.ece |title=ABVP educational reforms |publisher=Thehindu.com |date=11 September 2012 |access-date=6 May 2013|newspaper=The Hindu }}</ref> It competes in student-body elections in colleges and universities. Students for Development (SFD) is an initiative by the ABVP to promote "right perspective towards the need of holistic and sustainable development" in students.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abvp.org/sfd|title=SFD|website=Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad|access-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> The official ABVP magazine is ''Rashtriya Chhatrashakti'', which is published monthly in [[Hindi]] in [[New Delhi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abvp.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65&Itemid=80 |title=Обновление FLV Player |publisher=Abvp.org |access-date=6 May 2013}}</ref>

ABVP conducts self-defense training program for girls titled "Mission Sahasi" all over India.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Over 3,000 girls participate in ABVP's 'Mission Sahasi'|url=https://news.statetimes.in/over-3000-girls-participate-in-abvps-mission-sahasi/|access-date=20 May 2021|website=State Times|date=30 October 2018 |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/vijayawada/2019/dec/13/vijayawada-girls-showcase-skills-post-martial-arts-workshop-2075377.html|title=Vijayawada girls showcase skills post martial arts workshop|work=The New Indian Express|access-date=16 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/abvp-starts-mission-sahasi-for-safety-of-girls-676002|title=ABVP starts 'Mission Sahasi' for safety of girls|work=Tribuneindia News Service|language=en|access-date=16 April 2020}}</ref>

ABVP conducted door-to-door screening in more than 100 slums of Delhi for Covid-19 symptoms and encouraged people to register for vaccination.<ref>{{Cite web|date=16 May 2021|title=ABVP plans drive to help slum residents |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/abvp-plans-drive-to-help-slum-residents/articleshow/82667832.cms|access-date=20 May 2021|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=ABVP to start COVID-19 screening in 100 Delhi slums from May 16, asks 'neutral' students to join in|url=https://www.edexlive.com/news/2021/may/14/abvp-to-start-covid-19-screening-in-100-delhi-slums-from-may-16-asks-neutral-students-to-join-in-20710.html|access-date=20 May 2021|website=The New Indian Express|date=14 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Delhi: ABVP to conduct mass screening to trace coronavirus cases in slum areas|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2021/may/15/delhi-abvp-to-conduct-mass-screening-to-trace-coronavirus-cases-in-slum-areas-2302775.html|access-date=20 May 2021|website=The New Indian Express|date=15 May 2021 }}</ref>

===Violence===
ABVP has been accused of multiple violent incidents, including stone pelting,<ref>{{Cite news|date=15 May 2007|title=Stone throwing during protest by ABVP in Hubli; 20 arrested|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/Stone-throwing-during-protest-by-ABVP-in-Hubli-20-arrested/article14763604.ece|access-date=10 November 2017|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=11 July 2003|title=ABVP activists turn violent at CET Cell|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2003/07/11/stories/2003071104420600.htm|url-status=dead|access-date=10 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030902054828/http://www.thehindu.com/2003/07/11/stories/2003071104420600.htm|archive-date=2 September 2003}}</ref> arson,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Banerjee|first1=Tamaghna|date=20 September 2019|title=ABVP supporters commit arson at Jadavpur University gate, ransack rooms on campus|work=The Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/abvp-supporters-commit-arson-at-ju-gate-ransack-rooms-on-campus/articleshow/71209836.cms|access-date=23 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Protesting ABVP Students Lathicharged Outside Amnesty Office|website=The Wire|url=https://thewire.in/politics/amnesty-abvp-lathicharged}}</ref> vandalism<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=26 February 2008|title=ABVP activists vandalise DU History Department|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/ABVP-activists-vandalise-DU-History-Department/article15173859.ece|access-date=10 November 2017|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> and physical assault,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Byatnal|first1=Amruta|date=24 August 2013|title=ABVP thrashes FTII student for not saying 'Jai Narendra Modi'|newspaper=The Hindu|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/abvp-thrashes-ftii-student-for-not-saying-jai-narendra-modi/article5053110.ece|access-date=4 March 2014}}</ref> on college<ref>{{Cite news|date=3 November 2017|title=ABVP 'activists' ransack Narayana college|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/abvp-activists-ransack-narayana-college/article19973716.ece|access-date=10 November 2017|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=25 May 2007|title=ABVP activists go on the rampage on college premises|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/ABVP-activists-go-on-the-rampage-on-college-premises/article14768437.ece|access-date=10 November 2017|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> and school campuses<ref>{{cite news|date=19 August 2011|title=Jharkhand: ABVP cadres ransack missionary school over Anna protest|publisher=India Today|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/east/story/ranchi-students-boycott-classes-to-support-anna-abvp-cadres-ransack-missionary-school-139590-2011-08-18|access-date=4 March 2014}}</ref> and elsewhere.<ref name="HinduMasked20">{{cite news |title=As it happened: Masked goons strike terror in JNU, none arrested |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/live-updates-jnu-students-attacked-inside-campus-by-abvp-activists/article30486246.ece |access-date=6 January 2020 |work=The Hindu |date=5 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="ITBarged20">{{cite news |title=ABVP members barged into JNU hostels, attacked students with sticks, claims JNUSU |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/jawaharlal-nehru-university-sabarmati-hostel-abvp-jnusu-1634173-2020-01-05 |access-date=6 January 2020 |work=India Today |date=5 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://ibnlive.in.com/news/right-wing-activists-target-kashmiri-film-fest-in-hyderabad/420312-62-127.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130911164137/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/right-wing-activists-target-kashmiri-film-fest-in-hyderabad/420312-62-127.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 11 September 2013 |title= Right wing activists target Kashmiri film fest in Hyderabad |publisher= IBN-Live |date= 7 September 2013 |access-date= 4 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.sunday-guardian.com/artbeat/right-wing-hooligans-and-a-complicit-state |title= Right-wing hooligans and a complicit State |publisher= The Sunday Guardian |date= 24 August 2013 |access-date= 4 March 2014 |archive-date= 4 March 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140304164450/http://www.sunday-guardian.com/artbeat/right-wing-hooligans-and-a-complicit-state |url-status= dead }}</ref> Most notably, on 5 January 2020, according to the [[Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union]], masked ABVP members attacked JNU students, smashing cars and pelting stones, while ABVP accused left wing organisations. ABVP later confessed the same on national media<ref>{{cite news |title=Listen in: ABVP Delhi State Jt Secretary 'explains' the video of alleged ABVP violence in JNU. |url=https://twitter.com/TimesNow/status/1214229897717010433 |access-date=8 January 2020 |work=Times Now |publisher=Twitter |date=6 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title='Asked to Step Out With Rods, Acid': ABVP Delhi Joint Secretary Admits Its Men Were Armed in JNU |url=https://www.news18.com/news/india/asked-to-step-out-with-rods-acid-abvp-delhi-joint-secretary-admits-its-men-were-armed-in-jnu-2448373.html |access-date=8 January 2020 |work=News18 |date=7 January 2020 }}</ref> and in a [[sting operation]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Akshat Awasthi not our member, claims ABVP after India Today sting exposes JNU violence |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/india-today-sting-operation-jawaharlal-nehru-university-violence-jnu-attackers-abvp-delhi-police-aishe-ghosh-1635757-2020-01-10 |access-date=11 January 2020 |work=The India Today |date=10 January 2020}}</ref> and the veracity of ABVP's involvement was also found out through [[investigative journalism]] which was later confirmed by [[Delhi Police]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sharma |first1=Pratik |title=Investigating the masked woman photographed during JNU violence |url=https://www.altnews.in/investigating-the-masked-woman-photographed-during-jnu-violence/ |access-date=11 January 2020 |work=[[AltNews.in]] |date=10 January 2020}}</ref><ref name="b785">{{cite web | last=Malik | first=Anukriti | title=JNU violence: Masked girl in viral picture of mob attack is Delhi University student Komal Sharma? | website=Newslaundry | date=7 January 2020 | url=https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/01/07/jnu-violence-masked-girl-mob-delhi-university-komal-sharma-abvp | access-date=22 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://thewire.in/government/jnu-masked-woman-komal-sharma-abvp-delhi-police-confirm |title=JNU Attack: Delhi Police Confirm Masked Woman Is ABVP Member Komal Sharma|access-date=2 February 2020 |work=The Wire |date=15 January 2020}}</ref> A total of 28 people were injured, including students and teachers.<ref name="HinduMasked20" /><ref name="ITBarged20" />

== See also ==
* [[Indian Youth Congress]]
* [[Students' Federation of India]]
*[[Muslim Students Federation (I. U. M. L.)]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book|last1=Kaiwar |first1=Vasant |last2=Mazumdar |first2=Sucheta |title=Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haJl-fvKqCcC&pg=PA239 |date=21 April 2003 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=0-8223-3046-6 |pages=239–}}
* {{cite book|last1=Basu |first1=Amrita |title=Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TTrjCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA71 |date=30 June 2015 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-08963-1 |pages=258–}}
* {{cite book |last1=Jaffrelot |first1=Christophe |title=Religion, Caste, and Politics in India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAO3i_gS61wC&pg=PA787 |year=2010 |publisher=Primus Books |isbn=978-93-80607-04-7 |pages=47–}}

==External links==
* {{Official website|https://www.abvp.org/}}
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Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad - Revision history

MarvinGrenier8 at 19:48, 21 February 2026