[2] He grew up with an Arya Samaj background and went to study at the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College in Lahore.

[3] Mahavir joined the RSS in 1938, in a shakha established by Raja Bhau Paturkar in Lahore.

He moved to Delhi in 1956, working as a lecturer in the Panjab University College established for the Panjabi refugees.

[4] Towards the end of 1950, Shyama Prasad Mookerjee gathered in Delhi a core group of activists to form a new political party, the future Bharatiya Jana Sangh.

[5][6] After the death of Mookerjee in 1953, the RSS members of the Working Committee forced out the next elected President Mauli Chandra Sharma, in effect taking full control of the Jana Sangh.