Editing Ram Swarup (section)

== Life ==

Ram Swarup was born in 1920 to a banker father in [[Sonipat]], now a part of the state of [[Haryana]] in the [[Garg (gotra)|Garg gotra]] of the merchant [[Agrawal]] caste. He graduated with a degree in economics from [[Delhi University]] in 1941. He started the Changer's Club in 1944, members of which included [[Lakshmi Chand Jain]], [[Raj Krishna]], [[Girilal Jain]] and [[Sita Ram Goel]]. In 1948–49, he worked for [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s disciple [[Mira Behn]] (Madeleine Slade).<ref>{{Cite web |last=VOI |date=2016-09-24 |title=Ram Swarup: Outline of a biography – Koenraad Elst |url=https://voiceofindia.me/2016/09/24/ram-swarup-outline-of-a-biography-koenraad-elst/ |access-date=2022-03-08 |website=Voice of India |language=en}}</ref>

Swarup wrote a book on the Communist Party that was published under an assumed name. In 1949, he founded the Society for the Defence of Freedom in Asia. The Society published books, reviewed in the West, that criticised both the [[Presidium of the Supreme Soviet]]-mouthpiece ''[[Izvestia]]'' as well as ''[[Pravda]]'', another mouthpiece for that same foreign power's [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party]].<ref name="Nehruism1">Sita Ram Goel Genesis and Growth of Nehruism (1993)</ref> The Society for the Defence of Freedom in Asia ceased operations in 1955. His early book ''Gandhism and Communism'' from around this time had some influence among American policymakers and members of [[United States Congress|Congress]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ram Swarup A Fearless Intellectual by V. Sundaram |url=https://www.boloji.com/articles/4983/ram-swarupa-fearless-intellectual |access-date=2022-03-08 |website=boloji.com}}</ref> Swarup also wrote for mainstream Indian weeklies and dailies, like the ''Telegraph'', ''[[The Times of India]]'', ''Indian Express'', ''Observer of Business and Politics'', ''[[Hindustan Times]]'' and ''[[Hinduism Today]]''.

In 1982, Swarup founded the publishing house [[Voice of India]],<ref>{{Cite web|date=1998-07-01|title=Letter by Goel to Hinduism Today, July 1998. Letters|url=https://www.hinduismtoday.com/magazine/july-1998/1998-07-letters-2/|access-date=2021-07-04|website=Hinduism Today|language=en-US}}</ref> which has published works by Harsh Narain, A. K. Chatterjee, [[K.S. Lal]], [[Koenraad Elst]], [[Rajendra Singh (environmentalist)|Rajendra Singh]], Sant R.S. Nirala and [[Shrikant Talageri]], among others.<ref name = "HIBAH 9">Goel, Sita Ram, [http://voiceofdharma.com/books/hibh/ch9.htm "How I became a Hindu"], Chapter 9</ref>