Meanwhile, Keshav Baliram Hedgewar also held a special fascination for linguistic purity. He deliberately chose to ‘mystify’ the organisation’s structure by choosing archaic titles for office-bearers: sarkaryavah for a general secretary, sah sarkaryavah for a joint general secretary and sarsenapati (originally, a military title used by the Maratha empire) for the chief trainer. He opted for such epithets to not only delineate the RSS from other organisations, but to also enhance its stature by creating a classical aura around it.
