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The Durga Vahini (ISO: Durgā Vāhinī ) (Army of Durga) is the women's wing of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP). It was established in 1991 and its founding chairperson is Sadhvi Rithambara. The Vishva Hindu Parishad states the purpose of the Durga Vahini is to encourage more women to participate in prayer meetings and in cultural activities. Kalpana Vyash, a senior leader of the organization, said that the Durga Vahini members dedicate themselves "to physical, mental and knowledge development". The aim of the organization is to establish Hindu solidarity by helping Hindu families during the time of hardship and by providing social services. According to Vyash, the total membership of the group is 8,000 as of 2002, and 1,000 members are from Ahmedabad.

Activities and ideology

The Durga Vahini is often considered to be the female face of the hardliner Bajrang Dal .these girls are the face of maa Durga, to fight against the wrong and illigal things.

. Members learn karate and lathi, and receive ideological education. The organization especially recruits young girls for carrying risky tasks of militant activism in which much physical strength is required, for example confronting Muslim people who they view as enemy and to fight on the front lines in places like Ayodhya.

On 16 March 2002, Durga Vahini activists wielding tridents and sporting saffron headbands ransacked the Orissa Assembly along with VHP and Bajrang Dal members.

Six members of the Durga Vahini were arrested in Gwalior in March 2004 for blackening the face of Neetu Sapra, director of the play Kal Aaj Aur Kal. The Vishva Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal claimed the play depicted Rama, Sita, Laxman and Hanuman in "indecent" way. The activists also damaged the furnitures in Sapra's home.

In July 2017, Durga Vahini organized a training camp for self-defence in Jammu & Kashmir, girls from 17 border towns of the state participated in the camp.

See also

• The World Before Her, a documentary partly chronicling the training at a Durga Vahini camp
• Rashtra Sevika Samiti

References

1. ^ "Women 'Ram Bhakt' hog limelight". The Tribune. 11 April 2002. Retrieved 29 June 2008.
2. Patricia Jeffery, Amrita Basu (1997). Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia. Routledge. p. 168. ISBN 0-415-91866-9.
3. Fiona Wilson, Bodil Folke Frederiksen (1995). Ethnicity, Gender, and the Subversion of Nationalism. Routledge. p. 91. ISBN 0-7146-4155-3.
4. Feminist Review: Issue 49. Routledge. 1995. p. 13. ISBN 0-415-12375-5.
5. S. Anand (19 January 2008). "Next Stop Orissa". Tehelka. Retrieved 29 June 2008.
6. "'Durga Vahini' activists held". The Hindu. 15 May 2004. Retrieved 29 June 2008.
7. http://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/j-k-girls-turn-up-in-huge-numbers-at-durga-vahini-training-camp-for-self-defence-exercise-325387.html

External links

• Durga Vahini, Vishva Hindu Parishad website

• Sangh Parivar
• Religiously motivated violence in India
• Women's organisations based in India
• Hindu organizations
• Vishva Hindu Parishad
• Military wings of political parties