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Rama

Rama or full name Ramachandra is considered to be the seventh avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism, and a king of Ayodhya in ancient Indian...

's Kingdom'), was a traditionalist Hindu

Hindu

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 party in India

India

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. It was founded by Swami Karpatri

Swami Karpatri

Swami Karpatri was a monk in the Hindu dashanami monastic tradition. His ordained name as a monk was Hariharananda Saraswati, but he was popularly known by the name Karpatri Swami. He was married and the father of a baby daughter when he left home at age 17 to seek ordination as a sannyasi...

 (1905–1980) in 1948. The Ram Rajya Parishad won three Lok Sabha

Lok Sabha

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 seats in the 1952 elections and two in the 1962 elections

Indian general election, 1962

India held general elections to the 3rd Lok Sabha. Jawaharlal Nehru had led the Congress to a resounding victory in the 1962 elections with a majority win. During his tenure the Congress leader had also envisaged a new look for the country in the areas of development and growth...

. In 1952, 1957 and 1962, it won several dozen Vidhan Sabha

Vidhan Sabha

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 seats, all in the Hindi belt

Hindi belt

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, mostly in Rajasthan

Rajasthan

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. Ram raja parishad was a Hindu traditional party, and not an Indian (or "Hindu") nationalist party. The RRP was dharmic, which significantly affected the political outlook of the party. Hindu dharma does not generally accept the (western) concept of a "nation" because dharma is said to permeate the entire universe, rather than demarcate between "nation states". Dharma concerns all living beings (âtman). Like Hindutva, RRP wanted a uniform civil code in India, based on Manava-Dharma-Shastra, with Ahimsa

Ahimsa

Ahimsa is a term meaning to do no harm . The word is derived from the Sanskrit root hims – to strike; himsa is injury or harm, a-himsa is the opposite of this, i.e. non harming or nonviolence. It is an important tenet of the Indian religions...

 to first creed. The party turned inactive and was one of the many parties to merge together to form the Bharatiya Jana Sangh

Bharatiya Jana Sangh

The Bharatiya Jana Sangh existed from 1951 to 1980, whereupon it was succeeded by the Bharatiya Janata Party, one of India's largest political parties...