Arjak Sangh

Arjak Sangh, a humanist, rationalist organisation, was founded by Mahamana Ramswaroop Verma. The organization emphasizes social equality and is strongly opposed to Brahminism. Mahamana Ramswaroop Verma (1923-1998) was born on August 22, 1923 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. He denied the existence of god and soul. He was strongly opposed to the doctrine of rebirth and fatalism. Mahamana Ramswaroop Verma campaigned tirelessly against Brahminism and untouchability. 

The aim of Arjak Sangh is to organise all communities, which believe in the superiority of physical labour, and to work for their social, economic, cultural and political advancement. 

The first basic principle of Arjak Sangh is to treat physical labour as superior to mental labour. According to the Arjak Sangh, mental labour can be helpful in producing something but it cannot achieve anything without physical labour. On the other hand, physical labour can produce things in a natural way. The upper castes of India have looked down upon physical labour. Brahmins, for example, who live by begging, do not feel ashamed in doing so. On the other hand, they look down upon Bhangis (Sweepers) who do hard and socially useful physical labour. The sections of society, which shun physical labour, created the caste system to sustain themselves. The Arjak Sangh wants to establish the dignity of physical labour and to destroy the caste system. The Arjak Sangh wants complete social equality including gender equality.

Arjak Sangh also emphasizes the economic advancement of the arjaks and contains a detailed programme for it. It envisages a cultural revolution to liberate the arjaks from the doctrines of rebirth and fatalism, which, according to it, has blunted their revolutionary consciousness. Further, Arjak Sangh wants arjaks to ignore the religious distinctions among them. Arjak Sangh, will use the feeling of human welfare inherent in the basic principles of all religions to foil all attempts by non- arjaks to divide arjaks along religions lines. According to the document, Arjak Sangh regards religion (dharma) as that which leads to the conservation and prosperity of human society. Thus, in the view of Arjak Sangh, all religions are same as long as they try for the prosperity of human society. In this sense, no religion can propagate inequality in human society, because it will cease to be a religion if it does so. Arjak Sangh will view religions in this broad sense and try to bring harmony among them because arjaks of all religions are facing similar poverty and misery.