When the RSS was banned in 1948, following the Mahatma Gandhi assassination, and Golwalkar put in prison, the RSS held "satyagrahas" to protest against the ban. Of the 1,995 "swayamsevaks" that were arrested for the "satyagraha", 498 were from the Ujjain district, 488 from the Indore district and 209 from Shajapur district.