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"Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, 23 February 1852 – 17 December 1852"
"Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, 25 June 1895 – 11 July 1902"
"Henry Addington, 17 March 1801 – 10 May 1804"
"Lord John Russell, 30 June 1846 – 21 February 1852"
"Benjamin Disraeli, 20 February 1874 – 21 April 1880"
"Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 5 March 1894 – 22 June 1895"
"Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, 13 July 1765 – 30 July 1766"
"William Pitt the Younger, 19 December 1783 – 14 March 1801"
"Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, 31 August 1827 – 8 January 1828"
"Robert Peel, 30 August 1841 – 29 June 1846"
"Lord John Russell, 29 October 1865 – 26 June 1866"
"William Ewart Gladstone, 3 December 1868 – 17 February 1874"
"Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, 23 June 1885 – 28 January 1886"
"William Ewart Gladstone, 15 August 1892 – 2 March 1894"
"William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, 16 November 1756 – 29 June 1757"
"George Grenville, 16 April 1763 – 10 July 1765"
"Frederick North, Lord North, 28 January 1770 – 27 March 1782"
"William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, 2 April 1783 – 18 December 1783"
"William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, 31 March 1807 – 4 October 1809"
"George Canning, 12 April 1827 – 8 August 1827"
"William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, 16 July 1834 – 14 November 1834"
"William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, 18 April 1835 – 30 August 1841"
"Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, 6 February 1855 – 19 February 1858"
"Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, 12 June 1859 – 18 October 1865"
"Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, 28 June 1866 – 25 February 1868"
"Benjamin Disraeli, 27 February 1868 – 1 December 1868"
"Robert Walpole, 3 April 1721 – 11 February 1742"
"William Ewart Gladstone, 23 April 1880 – 9 June 1885"
"William Ewart Gladstone, 1 February 1886 – 20 July 1886"
"Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, 25 July 1886 – 11 August 1892"
"Henry Pelham, 27 August 1743 – 6 March 1754"
"Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, 16 March 1754 – 11 November 1756"
"Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, 29 June 1757 – 26 May 1762"
"John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, 26 May 1762 – 8 April 1763"
"William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, 30 July 1766 – 14 October 1768"
"Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, 14 October 1768 – 28 January 1770"
"Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, 27 March 1782 – 1 July 1782"
"William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, 4 July 1782 – 26 March 1783"
"William Pitt the Younger, 10 May 1804 – 23 January 1806"
"William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, 11 February 1806 – 25 March 1807"
"Spencer Perceval, 4 October 1809 – 11 May 1812"
"Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, 8 June 1812 – 9 April 1827"
"Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, 22 January 1828 – 16 November 1830"
"Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, 22 November 1830 – 9 July 1834"
"Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, 17 November 1834 – 9 December 1834"
"Robert Peel, 10 December 1834 – 8 April 1835"
"Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, 16 February 1742 – 2 July 1743"
"George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, 19 December 1852 – 30 January 1855"
"Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, 20 February 1858 – 11 June 1859"
"Arthur Balfour, 12 July 1902 – 4 December 1905"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.