Shri Ranga Hariji is a senior Prachaarak and highly respected thinker of RSS. He was in jail in Kerala from December 1948 to April 1949 in Central Jail as a satyagrahi demanding lifting of the ban on RSS. He became a Prachaarak in 1951 after finishing his graduation in Kochi. Hariji was the Prant Prachaarak of Kerala from 1983 to 1994; Akhil Bharatiya Saha-bauddhik Pramukh in 1990 and Akhil Bharatiya Bauddhik Pramukh from 1991 to 2005. He was a guide and consultant to Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh in Asia and Australia from 1994 to 2005. He has travelled 22 countries across 5 continents. He participated in the World Conference of Pre-Christian Religions and Tradition in Lithuania 2001 and later in India in 2005 and 2006. He was a member of Akhil Bharatiya Karyakaari Mandal of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh till 2006. Now, 87 year old Hariji has retired from day-to-day work and devotes his time to writing and giving lectures when health allows.
Hariji has excellent knowledge of Malayalam, Sanskrit, Hindi, Konkani, Marathi, Tamil and English. He is a prolific writer and has written 20 books in Malayalam, 8 in Hindi and one in Konkani.He has also compiled three books in Malayalam and one huge collection of Shri Guruji’s works—‘Shri Guruji Samagra’ in Hindi in 12 Volumes. He has translated one book from English, six books from Marathi, two from Sanskrit and one from Hindi to Malayalam. He has written the biography of Shri Guruji in Hindi. We are presenting here the English translation of this highly acclaimed biography.
