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== Vishal mourya ==
== Militant is the incorrect word used here ==

I can see the works militant used here. I STRONGLY object the use of such word for this organization.
Remove it immediately. ] (]) 11:59, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

:It's reliably sourced, so no, it will stay. Misplaced Pages follows reliable sources, not personal opinion. ] (]) 12:53, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
::Militant is the wrong word used here. Do you guys use such words for any org. in ur country?? No right... ] (]) 16:52, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
::It will not stay. What is the reliability of the sources shared? It's clear from your wiki profile that you have an agenda. ] (]) 06:29, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
:There are 1000 other sources to discredit the use of the word 'militant'. Please remove it ASAP.
:https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-politics/bajrang-dals-a-brief-history-8589891/ ] (]) 06:27, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Militant is not correct, it is service and hindu fundamentals protection organization ] (]) 05:24, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
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:: The consensus of ] is that the Bajrang Dal is a ] organisation. Please see {{slink|Special:Permalink/1007358857#cite_note-militant-1}} for the list. ] on Misplaced Pages entails {{xt|representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant ] that have been ] on a topic}}, and the cited academic sources overwhelmingly agree that ''militant'' is an accurate descriptor for the Bajrang Dal.
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== Use of word militant word is incorrect ==

Militant is the incorrect word used here ] (]) 06:24, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

:The ''militant'' descriptor is amply supported by ], including ], in {{slink|Special:Permalink/1007358857#cite_note-militant-1}}. For your convenience, I've reproduced the list below:
{{cot|20 ] describing Bajrang Dal as ''militant''}}
:# {{cite book |last1=Eko |first1=Lyombe |title=The Regulation of Sex-Themed Visual Imagery: From Clay Tablets to Tablet Computers |publisher=] |date=April 29, 2016 |isbn=978-1-137-55098-9 |pages=77–86 |chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303441330_Regulation_of_Sex-Themed_Visual_Imagery_in_India |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137550989 |url-access=limited |access-date=17 February 2021 |via=] |doi=10.1057/9781137550989_6 |language=en |chapter=Regulation of Sex-Themed Visual Imagery in India |quote=The Bajrang Dal (the Brigade of Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god) is a militant, Hindu nationalist organization in India. It is famous for its cow protection activities (i.e., saving cows, which are considered sacred in Hinduism, from slaughter).}}
:# {{cite book |last1=Valiani |first1=Arafaat A. |title=Militant publics in India: Physical culture and violence in the making of a modern polity |date=November 11, 2011 |publisher=] |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-230-37063-0 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Militant_Publics_in_India/_XLHAAAAQBAJ |page=180 |accessdate=17 February 2021 |url-access=limited|via=] |quote=In 2002, almost 2,000 Muslims were killed in carefully planned attacks by the VHP and the Bajrang Dal. The state was governed by the BJP in 2002, and some BJP representatives brazenly justified and abetted the violence.}}
:# {{cite book |last1=Parashar |first1=Swati |title=Women and Militant Wars: The politics of injury |date=March 5, 2014 |publisher=] |isbn=978-1-134-11606-5 |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YoH8AgAAQBAJ |access-date=13 February 2021 |language=en |via=] |url-access=limited |quote=The Sangh Parivar (literally known as the Sangh family) includes groups such as the Rashtriye Swayamsewak Sangh, the Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. They articulate a militant Hindu nationalist politics, opposing the Muslim 'other'.}}
:# {{cite journal |last1=Alter |first1=Joseph S. |authorlink=Joseph Alter |title=Somatic Nationalism: Indian Wrestling and Militant Hinduism |journal=] |date=1994 |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=557–588 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/313044 |url-access=subscription |access-date=13 February 2021 |issn=0026-749X |via=] |jstor=313044 |quote=It would be anathema for the leaders of such militant groups as the RSS, Shiva Sena, and Bajrang Dal, to let a Muslim 'voice' speak to the issue of what is lacking among Hindus, much less turn—even nominally—to an Islamic model of civility to define the terms of Hindu self development.}}
:# {{cite journal |last1=Anand |first1=Dibyesh |title=Anxious Sexualities: Masculinity, Nationalism and Violence |journal=] |date=May 2007 |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=257–269 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-856x.2007.00282.x |url=https://www.academia.edu/25169782/Anxious_Sexualities_Masculinity_Nationalism_and_Violence |access-date=13 February 2021 |via=] |quote=Amrish Ji, a leader of a militant organisation ''Bajrang Dal'', in a public speech accused Muslims of treating {{'}}''Bharat Mata''{{'}} ('Mother India') as a {{'}}''dayan''{{'}} ('witch') (Amrish Ji 2005).}}
:# {{cite book |last1=Jerryson |first1=Michael |title=Religious Violence Today: Faith and Conflict in the Modern World |date=July 15, 2020 |publisher=] |isbn=978-1-4408-5991-5 |page=275 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pfjtDwAAQBAJ |access-date=13 February 2021 |via=]|language=en |url-access=limited |quote=The magazine ''Tehelka'' carried out a six-month undercover investigation in 2007 that resulted in video evidence that the riots were organized and supported by Gujarat police and Chief Minister Modi. The video also implicated several members of the Bajrang Dal (a militant Hindu nationalist group) and the BJP (one of India's main political parties).}}
:# {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAO3i_gS61wC|url-access=limited|title=Religion, Caste, and Politics in India|last=Jaffrelot|first=Christophe|authorlink=Christophe Jaffrelot|date=2010|publisher=Primus Books|isbn=9789380607047|language=en|via=]|accessdate=17 February 2021|quote=In May–June, the VHP provided itself with an organization, which assembled young Hindu militants, the Bajrang Dal. Its founder, Vinay Katiyar, had until then been a ''pracharak'' of the RSS. However, the Bajrang Dal proved to be less disciplined than the RSS and its violent utterances as well as actions were to precipitate many communal riots.}}
:# {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RxuJCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT119|page=119|url-access=limited|title=State and Civil Society under Siege: Hindutva, Security and Militarism in India|last1=Joshy|first1=P. M.|last2=Seethi|first2=K. M.|date=15 September 2015|publisher=]|isbn=9789351503835|language=en|via=]|accessdate=17 February 2021|quote=Perhaps the most recent and controversial one emerged in the Sangh family is Bajrang Dal. The VHP was instrumental in the creation of the Bajrang Dal, which is a militant organisation based on the ideology of Hindutva.}}
:# {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEUdPqYQjhoC&pg=PA47|title=Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India|last=Ludden|first=David|date=1996-04-01|publisher=]|isbn=0812215850|page=47|language=en|url-access=limited|via=]|accessdate=17 February 2021|quote=Conspicuous in all coverage of the Rath Yatra were young men holding primitive weapons like bows and tridents. Here it was the young militants of the youth wing of the VHP, the Bajrang Dal, who challenged the BJP elders.}}
:# {{cite book|first=Manjari|last=Katju|title=Vishva Hindu Parishad and Indian Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b70nKb-8YuMC&pg=PA52|year=2003|publisher=]|isbn=978-81-250-2476-7|page=52|url-access=limited|via=]|accessdate=17 February 2021|quote=The local-level activism involving the Bajrang Dal took different forms, ranging from a visible presence and participation in public rituals like Durga pooja and Dussehera, to socio-religious policing. Its aggressive participation in the Ayodhya dispute as a subsidiary of the VHP brought it forward as a militant organisation.}}
:# {{cite book|first=Steven|last=Wilkinson|title=Religious Politics and Communal Violence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ARCnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA155|url-access=limited|year=2005|publisher=]|page=310|isbn=978-0-19-567237-4|via=]|accessdate=17 February 2021|quote=In the summer of 1984, Vinay Katiya, an RSS pracharak, formed the Bajrang Dal in Uttar Pradesh as a militant youth wing of the VHP, with the intention of recruiting young underemployed men from the lower castes for militant and daring action in conjunction with the ensuing battle for the Hindu nation that the VHP envisaged.}}
:# {{cite book|first=Robert L.|last=Hardgrave, Jr.|editor-first1=Rafiq|editor-last1=Dossani|editor-first2=Henry S.|editor-last2=Rowen|editor-link2=Harry Rowen|title=Prospects for Peace in South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TwO9zmj6aQ0C&pg=PA202|url-access=limited|year=2005|publisher=]|isbn=978-0-8047-5085-1|page=202|chapter=Hindu Nationalism and the BJP: Transforming Religion and Politics in India|via=]|accessdate=17 February 2021|quote=Construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya might remain the focus of the VHP, but the destruction of the mosque and the violence that followed alarmed many among the BJP's middle-class supporters. Fearing both alienation of major segments in its base of support and domination by the increasingly militant VHP and Bajrang Dal, the BJP once again shifted emphasis in its strategies of pragmatism and mobilization.}}
:# {{cite book|first1=Terry F.|last1=Buss|first2=F. Stevens|last2=Redburn|first3=Kristina|last3=Guo|title=Modernizing Democracy: Innovations in Citizen Participation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vsQ5H0225YkC&pg=PA296|year=2006|publisher=]|isbn=978-0-7656-2180-1|page=296|url-access=limited|accessdate=17 February 2021|via=]|quote=Bajrang Dal. Militant youth organization associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.}}
:# {{cite book|first1=Timothy|last1=Lubin|first2=Donald R.|last2=Davis Jr|first3=Jayanth K.|last3=Krishnan|title=Hinduism and Law: An Introduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MtuhClbfL7EC&pg=PA236|date=21 October 2010|publisher=]|isbn=978-1-139-49358-1|page=236|via=]|quote=The Bajrang Dal is the militant youth wing of the VHP and was formed in 1984.}}
:# {{cite book|first=Chad M.|last=Bauman|title=Pentecostals, Proselytization, and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DoFxBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT15|date=2 February 2015|publisher=]|isbn=978-0-19-026631-8|page=15|url-access=limited|accessdate=17 February 2021|via=]|quote=The most important of these, in terms of conflict between Hindus and Christians, are the Akhil Bharatiya Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, or ABVKA ("All-India Forest-Dweller's Welfare Center," founded in 1952), the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, or VHP ("World Hindu Council," founded in 1964), the VHP's militant youth wing, the Bajrang Dal, or ("Bajrang Party," founded in 1984), and the political party that became, in 1980, the Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP ("Indian People's Party").}}
:# {{cite book|first=Amrita|last=Basu|authorlink=Amrita Basu|title=Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TTrjCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA164|date=30 June 2015|publisher=]|isbn=978-1-107-08963-1|page=164|url-access=limited|accessdate=17 February 2021|via=]|quote=There was an unprecedented convergence of forces that heightened Hindu nationalist militancy and violence: an active RSS presence within civil society; high levels of coordination between the RSS, VHP, BJP, and militant Bajrang Dal; a cohesive political party; a BJP state government with ties to the bureaucracy and law enforcement agencies; and an NDA government at the center.}}
:# {{cite book|first=Purnima|last=Mankekar|title=Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fZf8wmVdpaIC&pg=PA179|year=1999|publisher=]|isbn=0-8223-2390-7|page=179|url-access=limited|via=]|accessdate=17 February 2021|quote=Militant organizations such as the Bajrang Dal, with its loyal following among the lumpen proletariat, further widened the class base of right-wing organizations such as the Bharatiya Janata Party, traditionally a stronghold of the urban petite bourgeoisie.}}
:# {{cite book|first1=Stanley A.|last1=Kochanek|first2=Robert L.|last2=Hardgrave|title=India: Government and Politics in a Developing Nation|date=30 January 2007|publisher=]|isbn=0-495-00749-8|page=206|quote=Distinct from both the RSS and the VHP, the militant Bajrang Dal has been closely associated with the VHP in the movement to "liberate" Hindu holy shrines at Ayodhya and other sites where mosques now stand. The Dal is one of many senas, the armed gangs that have been described as the face of Hindu fascism.}}
:# {{cite book|chapter=India|chapter-url=https://www.hrw.org/legacy/wr2k3/pdf/india.pdf|title=Human Rights Watch World Report, 2003|url=https://www.hrw.org/legacy/wr2k3/|year=2003|publisher=]|isbn=978-1-56432-285-2|page=237|accessdate=17 February 2021|quote=The groups most directly responsible for this violence against Muslims included the VHP, the Bajrang Dal (the militant youth wing of the VHP), and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteer Corps, RSS), collectively forming the ''sangh parivar'' (or "family" of Hindu nationalist groups).}}
:# {{cite news |title=Inside a far-right Hindu 'self defence' training camp |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-36415080 |access-date=15 December 2020 |work=] |date=1 June 2016 |quote=They are conducted by the Bajrang Dal, a militant Hindu organisation that traces its origins from the days of the infamous Babri Mosque demolition movement in the temple town of Ayodhya.}}
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Jai shree Ram ] (]) 12:23, 24 October 2024 (UTC)
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== Love jihad ==
" militant" is a wrong statement. It is purposely used to spread hatered against a Hindu organization. Shame on you people. ] (]) 19:37, 11 June 2024 (UTC)


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