Tag: The reality of RSS

By Anand Patwardhan Their founding fathers came from the most conservative Brahmin castes, with enormous faith in the culture that empowered them. They opposed the mainstream secular freedom struggle and started to mobilise along religious lines from the early 20th century. They openly admired Hitler and said that it would “profit” India to copy the Nazi approach to minorities. They stated that their top three enemies were a) Muslims, b) Christians and c) Communists. Arguing that Hindus and Muslims were irreconcilable, they propagated the two-nation theory, exactly as did their mirror opposite, the Muslim League. They...