Hedgewar

Early life

Hedgewar was born on 1 April 1889 in a Deshastha Brahmin family in Nagpur, Central Provinces and Berar. His great-grandfather Narhar Shastri migrated from Kandakurthi, Nizamabad district in present-day Telangana to Nagpur. His parents were Baliram Pant Hedgewar and Revatibai, a Marathi couple of modest means. When Hedgewar was thirteen, both of his parents died in the plague epidemic of 1902. Hedgewar's uncle ensured that he continued to receive a good education, and B. S. Moonje became a patron and a father-figure for the young Hedgewar.