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Who founded Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh?
A. K.B. Hedgewar
B. V.D. Savarkar
C. Madan Mohan Malviya
D. D.N. Karve

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Hint:The "National Volunteer Organization" Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is an Indian right-wing, Hindu nationalist, paramilitary volunteer organization. The RSS is the founder and chief of a vast number of organizations known as the Sangh Parivar ("family of the RSS"), which are present in all aspects of Indian society. Formed on 27 September 1925, RSS. It has a membership of 5–6 million as of 2014.

Complete answer:
RSS was established in 1925 by a doctor in the city of Nagpur, British India, Keshav Baliram Hedgewar. Hedgewar had been B's political protégé. S. Moonje, Congressman of the Tilakite, Nagpur Hindu Mahasabha politician and social activist. Hedgewar had been sent to Calcutta by Moonje to undertake his medical studies and to learn fighting tactics from the Bengalis' underground revolutionary societies. Hedgewar became a member of the Anushilan Samiti, a new anti-British party, and joined its inner circle. In arranging the RSS, the secret techniques of these societies were finally used by him. After returning to Nagpur, Hedgewar coordinated anti-British movements through the Kranti Dal (Revolution Party) and engaged in the Home Rule movement of independence leader Tilak in 1918. According to the official biography of the RSS, he admitted that political actions alone were not enough for the British to be overthrown. Hedgewar was highly inspired by him after reading V. D. Savarkar's Hindutva, written in Nagpur in 1923, and meeting Savarkar in Ratnagiri prison in 1925, and he founded the RSS with the intention of improving Hindu society.

Hence, the correct answer is K.B. Hedgewar i.e. (Option A) because D.N. Karve established India’s first University for women, whereas Madan Mohan Malviya was founder of Scouting in India and English Newspaper and V.D. Savarkar founded a secret society by the name of Abhinav Bharat Society.

Note:Headquarters of RSS is in Nagpur. It was started on 27 September, 1925. Its ideology stresses the common culture of the Indian subcontinent's citizens.