<h1>Organisational evolution: RSS's century-long expansion reshaped national civil society and spawned broad affiliate networks and outreach.</h1> The article chronicles the organisation's development from informal meetings to structured shakhas and formal leadership, detailing adoption of a common uniform and training regimen, establishment of a unitary leadership, creation of affiliated bodies across social sectors, episodes of state-imposed bans and arrests, and contemporary large-scale public outreach campaigns and training classes intended to expand institutional reach and propagate an articulated social agenda.