pracharak

/ prəˈtʃɑːrək /

noun

1. (in India) a person appointed to propagate a cause through personal contact, meetings, public lectures, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of pracharak¹

Hindi

Example Sentences

As a pracharak—the group’s term for its young, chaste foot soldiers—Modi started by cleaning the living quarters of senior members, but he rose quickly.

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As a young pracharak, he had taken a vow of celibacy, and he gave no public sign of breaking it.

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Modi, who was an RSS pracharak, or propagandist, for 12 years, claimed in 2014 that the transplantation of the elephant head of the god Ganesha to a human—a tale told in ancient epics—was a great achievement of Indian surgery millennia ago, and has made claims about stem cells similar to Rao's.

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The Indian Express quotes a senior "pracharak" - full time RSS worker - as saying that the two main leaders of the organisation are in favour of a new dress code.

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“Without it he could not have become a pracharak. They had to be unmarried. Questions would have been asked.”

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