KNOW THE RSS

Based on Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Documents

SHAMSUL ISLAM

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Contents
Introduction ................................................................................ 3

Is it true that the RSS idolizes Fascism & Hitler? ...................... 5

Is RSS loyal to National Flag? ................................................... 9

RSS demands Manu Code in place of Indian Constitution,What is

going to be the status of Dalits & women?……………….

Does RSS have faith in Democracy,

Secularism and Federalism? ..................................................... 17

Why was RSS banned after the murder of Gandhiji? ............... 20

Did RSS support the Freedom Movement? .............................. 23

Does RSS respect martyrs of the Freedom Movement

like Bhagat Singh, Chandershekhar Azad & Ashfaqullah Khan?30

How does non-political RSS conspire to manipulate national

politics? ..................................................................................... 32

Is RSS helping organizations like ISI? ..................................... 36

Does RSS believe in Two-Nation Theory

like pre-Partition Muslim League? ........................................... 39

Endnotes ................................................................................... 31

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 Introduction

With swayamsevaks (volunteers) like Atal Bihari Vajpayee and

Lal Krishna Advani in the drivers‟ seats in the National
Democratic Alliance Government at the Centre in India (1998-
2004) and Narendra Modi, a seasoned member of the RSS taking
over as the Prime Minister of India in 2014, the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) accelerated its old favourite pastime
of undoing democratic-secular polity and minority bashing in
India. Sarsanghchalak or supreme leader of the RSS, KS
Sudershan while addressing a rally in 2002 on the eve of 75th
founding day of the RSS in Nagpur, called upon Muslims and
Christians of the country to prove their patriotism. It is really
atrocious that an organization, which was at least twice banned for
anti-national activities by the Government of India after
independence, should pose as controlling authority of patriotism in
the country. Should we once again refresh the memory of the RSS
bosses that their rabid communal organization was banned in 1948
for collaborating in the murder of Mahatma Gandhi, and in 1992 it
was again banned for demolishing Babri mosque at Ayodhya? Do
we also need to tell the RSS that misadventures like demolition of
Babri mosque only served the strategic goals of the enemies of
India like the ISI of Pakistan who wished to see an India, fractured
and at war with itself?
It is high time that the people of this country scrutinize the
record (of patriotism and loyalty to the nation) of the RSS itself.
Unfortunately, the RSS which is fond of demanding unwavering
and unflinching loyalty to the Nation from minorities is neither
loyal to the Constitution of India, nor to the National Flag. RSS is
an organization, which openly decries the existence of a
democratic, federal and secular India; the „basic‟ features of the
Constitution of India. In fact, it has long tradition of worshipping

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dictators like Hitler and Mussolini. It is an organization which not
only openly decried the Freedom Movement against the British
rule but also made fun of the great martyrs like Bhagat Singh and
his companions who laid down their lives for the liberation of the
Motherland. In order to know the truth we will simply have to
make access to the literature and publications of the RSS,
especially the writings of M.S. Golwalkar (known as Guruji) who,
as a philosopher and guide, is religiously followed by the bosses
and cadres of the RSS. In this booklet we have presented fully the
official viewpoints of the RSS on different aspects of Indian polity
so that it cannot allege misrepresentation.
We must thoroughly and seriously know about the RSS today,
as it is no more a fringe organization with the present BJP leaders
declaring their open allegiance to the RSS. They have even told
the Nation that RSS to them is what Gandhiji was to Nehru! It is a
highly intriguing and dishonest parallel in the sense that Gandhiji
was theoretically never disloyal to a democratic, secular and
federal India. How critical situation is for our democratic polity
can be understood by going through the statement of Modi when
he described himself as 'Hindu nationalist'. He made this statement
on July 12, 2013 as chief minister of Gujarat while talking to
journalists of a leading European news agency Reuters. It is to be
noted that those Hindutva criminals who killed Father of the
Nation, Gandhiji also described themselves as 'Hindu nationalists'.
This statement made it clear that Modi as a loyal cadre of RSS
despite being holding a constitutional post under a democratic-
secular Constitution did not like to be called an Indian nationalist.
Moreover, if Modi is a 'Hindu nationalist' then naturally there will
be 'Muslim nationalists', 'Sikh nationalists', 'Christian nationalists'
etc. etc. destroying the whole idea of Indian nationalism.
The aim of this book that readers get familiarized with the real
face and intentions of the RSS, otherwise, it may be too late to
save our country.

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 All quotations reproduced in the book are from the RSS
publications/literature and English translations are by the author.
[View other writings of Shamsul Islam at: https://du-
in.academia.edu/ShamsulIslam]

Is it true that the RSS idolizes Fascism & Hitler?

Doubtlessly Hitler is a great hero for RSS. The RSS as great

champions of Hindutva want to deprive minorities of all their civil
and human rights shamelessly and openly adhering to the
totalitarian models of Hitler. This fascist outlook towards
minorities specially Muslims and Christians was clearly elaborated
by the senior ideologue of the RSS, MS Golwalkar, in his book,
We or Our Nationhood Defined. This book published in the year
1939, provides sufficient clues about thinking of the RSS
leadership towards democracy and minorities. We find Golwalkar
in this book idolizing the Nazi cultural nationalism of Hitler in the
following words:
"German Race pride has now become the topic of the
day. To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture,
Germany shocked the world by her purging the country
of the Semitic Races—the Jews. Race pride at its
highest has been manifested here. Germany has also
shown how well-nigh impossible it is for Races and
cultures, having differences going to the root, to be
assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us
in Hindusthan to learn and profit by."1
[M.S. Golwalkar, We Or Our Nationhood Defined,
Bharat Publications, Nagpur, 1939, p. 35.]
Golwalkar unhesitatingly wanted to model his Hindu Rashtra or
Nation on Hitler‟s totalitarian and fascist pattern as is clear from
the following words of his in the same book:
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 It is worth bearing well in mind how these old Nations
solve their minorities [sic] problem. They do not
undertake to recognize any separate element in their
polity. Emigrants have to get themselves naturally
assimilated in the principal mass of the population, the
National Race, by adopting its culture and language and
sharing in its aspirations, by losing all consciousness of
their separate existence, forgetting their foreign origin. If
they do not do so, they live merely as outsiders, bound by
all the codes and conventions of the Nation, at the
sufferance of the Nation and deserving no special
protection, far less any privilege or rights. There are only
two courses open to the foreign elements, either to merge
themselves in the national race and adopt its culture, or to
live at its mercy so long as the national race may allow
them to do so and to quit the country at the sweet will of
the national race. That is the only sound view on the
minorities [sic] problem. That is the only logical and
correct solution. That alone keeps the national life healthy
and undisturbed. That alone keeps the nation safe from
the danger of a cancer developing into its body politic of
the creation of a state within a state.2
RSS was the brain child of KB Hedgewar, VD Savarkar and BS
Moonje. All of them including Golwalkar who became chief
(Sarsanghchalak) of RSS after Hedgewar, were great fans of
Fascism and Nazism. The Italian researcher of Indian politics,
Marzia Casolari3 has done pioneering work in tracing the fraternal
links between RSS founders on the one hand and Fascism and
Nazism on the other. She has traced the linkages between the two
after a laborious perusal of Moonje diaries which are available at
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. According to
her:
The existence of direct contacts between the

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 representatives of the (Italian) fascist regime, including
Mussolini, and Hindu nationalists demonstrates that
Hindu nationalism had much more than an abstract
interest in the ideology and practice of fascism. The
interest of Indian Hindu nationalists in fascism and
Mussolini must not be considered as dictated by an
occasional curiosity, confined to a few individuals; rather,
it should be considered as the culminating result of the
attention that Hindu nationalists, especially in
Maharashtra, focussed on Italian dictatorship and its
leader. To them, fascism appeared to be an example of
conservative revolution.
Moonje had a personal audience with Mussolini on March 19,
1931 at 3 pm, in Palazzo Venzia, the headquarters of the Fascist
government. The meeting has been recorded in the diary on March
20 in the following words:
I shook hands with him saying that I am Dr Moonje. He
knew everything about me and appeared to be closely
following the events of the Indian struggle for
freedom…Signor Mussolini asked me if I have visited the
University. I said I am interested in the military training
of boys and have been visiting the Military Schools of
England, France and Germany. I have now come to Italy
for the same purpose and I am very grateful to say that
the Foreign Office and the War Office have made good
arrangements for my visiting these schools. I just saw this
morning and afternoon the Balilla and the Fascist
Organisations and I was much impressed. Italy needs
them for her development and prosperity. I do not see
anything objectionable though I have been frequently
reading in the newspapers not very friendly criticisms
about them and about your Excellency also.
„Signor Mussolini: What is your opinion about them?‟
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 Dr Moonje: Your Excellency, I am much impressed.
Every aspiring and growing Nation needs such
organisations.‟ Signor Mussolini, who appeared very
pleased, said: „Thanks but yours is an uphill task.
However I wish you every success in return.‟ Saying this
he got up and I also got up to take his leave.
The other great mentor of RSS, VD Savarkar also had great liking
for Hitler‟s Nazism and Fascism of Mussolini. While delivering
the Presidential address to the 22nd Session of Hindu Mahasabha
in 1940 at Madura he said,
There is no reason to suppose that Hitler must be a human
monster because he passes off as a Nazi or Churchill is a
demi-God because he calls himself a Democrat. Nazism
proved undeniably the saviour of Germany under the set
of circumstances Germany was placed in…4
Savarkar went on to chide Nehru for opposing Fascism and
Nazism in India. According to him,
Who are we to dictate to Germany, Japan or Russia or
Italy to choose a particular form of policy of government
simply because we woo it out of academical attraction?
Surely Hitler knows better than Pandit Nehru does what
suits Germany best. The very fact that Germany or Italy
has so wonderfully recovered and grown so powerful as
never before at the touch of Nazi or Fascist magical wand
is enough to prove that those political “Isms” were the
most congenial tonics their health demanded.5
Savarkar went on to support Hitler‟s anti-Jewish pogroms and on
October 14, 1938, he suggested the same solution for the Muslim
problem in India:
A Nation is formed by a majority living therein. What did
the Jews do in Germany? They being in minority were
driven out from Germany.6

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 Is RSS loyal to National Flag?

The RSS since its inception in 1925 hated anything which

symbolized the united struggle of the Indian people against British
rule. The case of the Tricolour, the Indian National Flag, is the
most pertinent one. In December 1929, Congress at its Lahore
session, adopted „Purna Swaraj‟ or complete self-rule as the
national goal and called upon the people to observe January 26,
1930 as Independence Day by displaying and honouring the
Tricolour (the Tricolour was by consensus considered the flag of
the national movement by this time). In response to this Hedgewar
as Sarsanghchalak issued a circular to all the RSS shakhas to
worship the bhagwa jhanda (saffron flag) as the national flag. The
important point is that nowhere in the functioning of the RSS is
the Tricolour or National Flag used even today. The RSS leaders
like Murli Manohar Joshi might have gone to unfurl the Tricolour
in 1991 at Lal Chowk of Srinagar, Kashmir in order to
hypocritically demonstrate their patriotism, but the fact is that the
RSS openly decries and denigrates the National Flag, as we will
see from the following statements coming from the RSS bosses.
Golwalkar while addressing a Gurupurnima gathering in
Nagpur on July 14, 1946, stated:
It was the saffron flag which in totality represented
Bhartiya [Indian] culture. It was the embodiment of God.
We firmly believe that in the end the whole nation will
bow before this saffron flag.7
On the eve of independence when Indian Constituent Assembly
adopted Tricolour as its National Flag, the English organ of the
RSS, Organiser, in its issue dated August 14, 1947, denigrated this
choice in the following words:
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 The people who have come to power by the kick of fate
may give in our hands the Tricolour but it will never be
respected and owned by Hindus. The word three is in
itself an evil, and a flag having three colours will
certainly produce a very bad psychological effect and is
injurious to a country.
So according to the RSS Indian National Flag was never to be
respected by Hindus. It was a bad omen and injurious for the
country.
Even after independence it was the RSS which refused to accept it
as the National Flag. Golwalkar while denouncing the choice of
Tricolour as National Flag in an essay entitled „Drifting and
Drifting‟ in the book Bunch of Thoughts (collection of writings of
Golwalkar and a RSS publication) wrote:
Our leaders have set up a new flag for our country. Why
did they do so? It is just a case of drifting and
imitating….Ours is an ancient and great nation with a
glorious past. Then, had we no flag of our own? Had we
no national emblem at all these thousands of years?
Undoubtedly we had. Then why this utter void, this utter
vacuum in our minds?8

RSS demands promulgation of Laws of Manu in place of

Indian Constitution,

What is going to be the fate of Dalits & women?……………….

How loyal the RSS is to the Constitution of India can be known by

the following statement of Golwalkar which is being reproduced
from Bunch of Thoughts which is not only selection of the writings
of Golwalkar but also a Bible for the RSS cadres.
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 Our Constitution too is just a cumbersome and
heterogeneous piecing together of various articles from
various Constitutions of Western countries. It has
absolutely nothing which can be called our own. Is there
a single word of reference in its guiding principles as to
what our national mission is and what our keynote in life
is?9
In fact, RSS wanted this Constitution to be replaced by
Manusmriti or Manu Code or laws of Manu which is known for its
derogatory and inhuman references to Sudras, Untouchables and
women. The Constituent Assembly of India finalized the
Constitution of India on November 26, 1949, RSS was not happy.
Its organ, Organiser in an editorial on November 30, 1949,
complained:
But in our Constitution there is no mention of the unique
constitutional development in ancient Bharat. Manu‟s
Laws were written long before Lycurgus of Sparta or
Solon of Persia. To this day his laws as enunciated in the
Manusmriti excite the admiration of the world and elicit
spontaneous obedience and conformity. But to our
constitutional pundits that means nothing.

By demanding promulgation of laws of Manu in an

Independent India RSS was simply following its mentor,
philosopher and guide VD Savarkar. According to him,
Manusmriti is that scripture which is most worship-
able after Vedas for our Hindu Nation and which
from ancient times has become the basis of our
culture-customs, thought and practice. This book
for centuries has codified the spiritual and divine
march of our nation. Even today the rules which are
followed by crores of Hindus in their lives and
practice are based on Manusmriti. Today

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 Manusmriti is Hindu Law.10

What kind of civilization the RSS and Hindutva camp want to

build by enforcing the laws of Manu, can be known by having a
glimpse of the laws prescribed by Manu for the lower
castes/Untouchables and women. Some of these dehumanizing and
degenerate laws, which are presented here, are self-explanatory.

Laws of Manu concerning Dalits/Untouchables11

1. For the sake of the prosperity of the worlds (the divine one)
caused the Brahmana, the Kshatriya, the Vaisya, and the Sudra
to proceed from his mouth, his arm, his thighs and his feet.
(I/31)
2. One occupation only the lord prescribed to the Sudras, to serve
meekly even these (other) three castes. (I/91)
3. Once-born man (a Sudra), who insults a twice-born man with
gross invective, shall have his tongue cut out; for he is of low
origin. (VIII/270)
4. If he mentions the names and castes (jati) of the (twice-born)
with contumely, an iron nail, ten fingers long, shall be thrust
red-hot into his mouth. (VIII/271)
5- If he arrogantly teaches Brahmanas their duty, the king shall
cause hot oil to be poured into his mouth and into his ears.
(VIII/272)
6. With whatever limb a man of a low caste does hurt to (a man
of the three) highest (castes), even that limb shall be cut off;
that is the teaching of Manu. (VIII/279)
7. He who raises his hand or a stick, shall have his hand cut off;
he who in anger kicks with his foot, shall have his foot cut off.
(VIII/280)
8. A low-caste man who tries to place himself on the same seat
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 with a man of a high caste, shall be branded on his hip and be
banished, or (the king) shall cause his buttock to be gashed.
(VIII/281)

As per the Manu Code if Sudras are to be given most stringent

punishments for even petty violations/actions, the same Code
of Manu is very lenient towards Brahmins. Shloka 380 in
Chapter VIII bestowing profound love on Brahmins decrees:
“Let him never slay a Brahmana, though he have committed all
(possible) crimes; let him banish such an (offender), leaving all
his property (to him) and (his body) unhurt.”

For RSS Casteism is synonymous with Hindu Nation

Faith of RSS brass in Manusmriti, naturally, leads them to believe

in Casteism too. For RSS Casteism is the essence of Hindu
Nationalism. Golwalkar did not mince words in declaring that
Casteism was synonymous with the Hindu Nation. According to
him, the Hindu people are none else but,

“The Hindu People, they said, is the Virat Purusha, the

Almighty manifesting Himself. Though they did not use
the word „Hindu‟, it is clear from the following
description of the Almighty in Purusha Sukta wherein it
is stated that the sun & the moon are His eyes, the stars
and the skies are created from his nabhi [navel] and
Brahmin is the head, Kshatriya the hands, Vaishya the
thighs and Shudra the feet. [Italics as per the original
text] This means that the people who have this fourfold
arrangement, i.e., the Hindu People, is [sic] our God.
This supreme vision of Godhead is the very core of our
concept of „nation‟ and has permeated our thinking and
given rise to various unique concepts of our cultural
heritage.”12

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Laws of Manu concerning women
1. Day and night woman must be kept in dependence by the
males (of) their (families), and, if they attach themselves to
sensual enjoyments, they must be kept under one‟s control.
(IX/2)
2. Her father protects (her) in childhood, her husband protects
(her) in youth, and her sons protect (her) in old age; a woman
is never fit for independence. (IX/3)
3. Women must particularly be guarded against evil inclinations,
however trifling (they may appear); for, if they are not
guarded, they will bring sorrow on two families. (IX/5)
4. Considering that the highest duty of all castes, even weak
husbands (must) strive to guard their wives. (IX/6)
5. No man can completely guard women by force; but they can
be guarded by the employment of the (following) expedients:
6. Let the (husband) employ his (wife) in the collection and
expenditure of his wealth, in keeping (everything) clean, in
(the fulfilment of) religious duties, in the preparation of his
food, and in looking after the household utensils.
7. Women, confined in the house under trustworthy and obedient
servants, are not (well) guarded; but those who of their own
accord keep guard over themselves, are well guarded. (IX/12)
8. Women do not care for beauty, nor is their attention fixed on
age; (thinking), „(It is enough that) he is a man,‟ they give
themselves to the handsome and to the ugly. (IX/14)
9. Through their passion for men, through their mutable temper,
through their natural heartlessness, they become disloyal
towards their husbands, however carefully they may be
guarded in this (world). (IX/15)
10. (When creating them) Manu allotted to women (a love of their)
bed, (of their) seat and (of) ornament, impure desires, wrath,
dishonesty, malice, and bad conduct. (IX/17)
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11. For women no (sacramental) rite (is performed) with sacred
texts, thus the law is settled; women (who are) destitute of
strength and destitute of (the knowledge of) Vedic texts, (are
as impure as) falsehood (itself), that is a fixed rule. (IX/18)
Reproduced parts of Manu Code above need no further
elaboration and commentary. They are too glaringly venomous,
fascist and degenerated against Untouchables who are referred to
as Sudras by Manu. Perhaps this was the reason that the German
philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche who contributed immensely to
the growth of totalitarian ideas in Europe in the 20th century, fell
in love with this work.
With the rise of Hindutva politics in the Hindi heartland there is
a flood of low-priced editions of Manusmriti. In one of such
editions by one of the biggest publishers of pocket books in Hindi,
the back cover has the following glorification of Manusmriti:
“The Manusmriti is the oldest social system of
the world which establishes constitution and justice.
Largely the social and judicial systems of today‟s
India are modelled after this book. It is an essential
book for each family, organization and society.”13
Such publishers remain unconcerned about the poison and
hatred, which Manusmriti contains and conveys against the
Sudras/Untouchables and women. There seems to be an inherent
relationship between the mass publication of such books (with
increasing violence against the lower castes and women in the
country) and the rise of the Hindu Right. It is high time that Nation
realizes that the RSS and Hindu Right‟s dream of recreating the
golden past is fraught with terrible dangers. Whatever it may be
saying about the Muslims and Christians posing dangers as
minorities it may end up depriving the Hindu Dalits and all women
of all their human rights. Their love for the scriptures like

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Manusmriti only underlines the fact that the real targets are the
Dalits and women of the Hindu society.
The story does not end with Manusmriti. The RSS book stores
stock and sale titles like How to lead a Household Life by Swami
Ramsukhdas which openly preach violence. This title is part of
low priced anti-woman literature published by Geeta Press. Here is
a glimpse from this book which is in the question-answer form and
available in English, Hindi and other regional Indian languages.
“Question: - What should the wife do if her husband
beats her and troubles her?
Answer: - The wife should think that she is paying
her debt of her previous life and thus her sins are being
destroyed and she is becoming pure. When her parents
come to know this, they can take her to their own house
because they have not given their daughter training to
face this sort of bad behaviour.
Question: - What should she do if her parents don‟t
take her to their own house?

Answer: - Under such circumstances what can the helpless

wife do? She should reap the fruit of her past actions.
She should patiently bear the beatings of her husband.
By bearing them she will be freed from her sins and it is
possible that her husband may start loving her.”14
There is blatant preaching in favour of the inhuman Sati as we
will see in the following:
“Question: - Is „Sati Pratha‟ (viz., the tradition of the
wife being cremated with the dead body of the husband
on the funeral pyre) proper or improper?
Answer: - A wife‟s cremation with the dead body of
her husband on the funeral pyre is not a tradition. She, in
whose mind truth and enthusiasm come, burns even
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 without fire and she does not suffer any pain while she
burns. This is not a tradition that she should do so, but
this is her truth, righteousness and faith in scriptural
decorum.”15
It is to be noted here that a copy of Manusmriti was burnt as a
protest in the presence of Dr. BR Ambedkar during historic Mahad
agitation in December, 1927.

Manusmriti enforced in Madhya Pradesh by BJP

The old RSS dream of promulgating the Manusmriti as
fundamental law of the country got impetus in 2004 when Uma
Bharti, a seasoned sadhvi of the RSS, came to head the state BJP
government in Madhya Pradesh. Soon after coming to power Uma
Bharti government promulgated an ordinance on January 23, 2004,
banning cow slaughter in the state. The crucial part of this
ordinance was that it referred to Manusmriti for justifying this ban.
The ordinance read: “Manusmriti ranks the slaughterer of cow as
predator and prescribes hard punishment for him.” It was for the
first time in the history of free India that commitment to enforce
Manusmriti as part of legal set up was announced by any
government. Undoubtedly, if RSS is able to capture political
power in India, women and Dalits too, will be treated according to
the diktats of Manusmriti.

Does RSS have faith in

Democracy, Secularism and Federalism?

Against Secularism
The RSS demands total loyalty to the Indian Nation from
minorities. It is another thing that it does not feel it proper to be
loyal to the constitutional-legal set up of this very Nation. The
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study of Prarthana (prayer) and Pratigya (oath) as practised in the
shakhas of the RSS will make it clear how the Indian nationalism
has been equated with Hinduism, in the same way as the Muslim
League had combined Islam with nationality. Significantly, both
Prayer and Oath are in direct contravention to the existence of an
Indian Secular State which is an important „Basic‟ feature of the
Constitution of India. It is very important to note here that those
groups which have been decrying and opposing the Indian
constitutional set-up have been facing the might of the Indian state
in the form of bullets or jails but here is the RSS which openly
rejects the legitimacy of the constitutional system of the country
still is allowed to rule and have a free run of the country.
Shockingly, former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee,
Home Minister, L.K.Advani and present RSS cadres ruling India
which includes PM Modi of our country who had taken oath to
uphold the integrity of a democratic and secular India were also
committed to the task of creating a Hindu Rashtra as per the texts
of the Prayer and Oath (reproduced below) which must be
unwaveringly followed by each RSS cadre.

Prayer:
Affectionate Motherland, I eternally bow to you/O Land of
Hindus, you have reared me in comfort/O Sacred Land, the
Great Creator of Good, may this body of mine be dedicated
to you/I again and again bow before You/O God Almighty,
we the integral part of the Hindu Rashtra salute you in
reverence/For Your cause have we girded up our loins/Give
us Your Blessings for its accomplishment.16
Oath:
Before the all powerful God and my ancestors, I most
solemnly take this oath, that I become a member of the RSS
in order to achieve all round greatness of Bharatvarsha by
fostering the growth of my sacred Hindu religion, Hindu
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 society, and Hindu culture. I shall perform the work of the
Sangh honestly, disinterestedly, with my heart and soul, and
I shall adhere to this goal all my life. Bharat Mata Ki Jai.17
Thus RSS cadres ruling India are not faithful to the Indian Nation
as it exists as a legal entity but want to subvert it into a theocratic
state like Muslim League which created Pakistan in the name of
Islam.
Against Democracy
The RSS, contrary to the principles of democracy, has been
constantly demanding India to be ruled under a totalitarian regime.
Golwalkar while delivering a speech before the 1350 top level
cadres of the RSS in 1940 declared,
RSS inspired by one flag, one leader and one ideology is
lighting the flame of Hindutva in each and every corner
of this great land.18
This slogan of one flag, one leader and one ideology has directly
been borrowed from the programmes of Nazi and Fascist parties of
Europe.
Against Federalism
The RSS is also dead against federal structure of the Constitution,
again a „basic‟ feature of the India polity. This is clear from the
following communication of Golwalkar which he sent to the first
session of the National Integration Council in 1961. It read:
Today‟s federal form of government not only gives birth
but also nourishes the feelings of separatism, in a way
refuses to recognize the fact of one nation and destroys it.
It must be completely uprooted, Constitution purified and
unitary form of government be established.19
It was this hatred for federalism that led the RSS to oppose the
formation of Maharashtra with all its might. Golwalkar who
always pretended to be non-political person often presided over

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anti-Maharashtra formation conferences. While presiding over one
such conference at Bombay in 1954, he demanded, “India should
have Central Rule and from administrative point of view states
should be administered territories.”20
These have not been some stray ideas of the RSS ideologue on
Indian Federalism. The Bible of the RSS, Bunch of Thoughts, has
an exclusive chapter titled, „Wanted a unitary state.‟ While
presenting his substitute to the federal set-up of India he writes,
The most important and effective step will be to bury deep
for good all talk of a federal structure of our country‟s
Constitution, to sweep away the existence of all
„autonomous‟ or semi-autonomous „states‟ within the one
state viz., Bharat and proclaim „One Country, One State,
One Legislature, One Executive‟ with no trace of
fragmentational [sic], regional, sectarian, linguistic or other
types of pride being given a scope for playing havoc with
our integrated harmony. Let the Constitution be re-
examined and re-drafted, so as to establish this Unitary form
of Government and thus effectively disprove the
mischievous propaganda indulged in by the British and so
unwittingly imbibed by the present leaders, about our being
just a juxtaposition of so many distinct „ethnic groups‟ or
„nationalities‟ happening to live side by side and grouped
together by the accident of geographical contiguity and one
uniform supreme foreign domination.21

Why was RSS banned after the murder of Gandhiji?

These were the anti-national activities of the RSS due to which the
organization was banned on February 4, 1948. The government
communique banning the RSS was self-explanatory:
In their resolution of February 2, 1948 the Government of

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 India declared their determination to root out the forces of
hate and violence that are at work in our country and
imperil the freedom of the Nation and darken her fair
name. In pursuance of this policy the Government of
India have decided to declare unlawful the RSS.22
The communique went on to disclose that the ban on the RSS was
imposed because,
Undesirable and even dangerous activities have been
carried on by members of the Sangh. It has been found
that in several parts of the country individual members of
the RSS have indulged in acts of violence involving
arson, robbery, dacoity, and murder and have collected
illicit arms and ammunition. They have been found
circulating leaflets exhorting people to resort to terrorist
methods, to collect firearms, to create disaffection against
the government and suborn the police and the military.23
It is well-known that the then Home Minister, Sardar Patel, had a
soft-corner for the RSS and continues to be a favourite with the
RSS. However even Sardar Patel found it difficult to defend the
RSS in the aftermath of Gandhiji‟s assassination. In a letter written
to Golwalkar, dated 11 September 1948, Sardar Patel stated:
Organizing the Hindus and helping them is one thing but
going in for revenge for its sufferings on innocent and
helpless men, women and children is quite another
thing…Apart from this, their opposition to the Congress,
that too of such virulence, disregarding all considerations
of personality, decency or decorum, created a kind of
unrest among the people. All their speeches were full of
communal poison. It was not necessary to spread poison
in order to enthuse the Hindus and organize for their
protection. As a final result of the poison, the country had
to suffer the sacrifice of the invaluable life of Gandhiji.
Even an iota of the sympathy of the Government, or of
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 the people, no more remained for the RSS. In fact
opposition grew. Opposition turned more severe, when
the RSS men expressed joy and distributed sweets after
Gandhiji‟s death. Under these conditions it became
inevitable for the Government to take action against the
RSS…Since then, over six months have elapsed. We had
hoped that after this lapse of time, with full and proper
consideration the RSS persons would come to the right
path. But from the reports that come to me, it is evident
that attempts to put fresh life into their same old activities
are afoot.24
Hindu Mahasabha and RSS were jointly responsible for the
murder of Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, was further
corroborated by Sardar Patel in a letter to a prominent leader of
Hindu Mahasabha, Shyama Prasad Mookerjee. On July 18, 1948
Sardar wrote:
As regards the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha, the case
relating to Gandhiji‟s murder is sub judice and I should
not like to say anything about the participation of the two
organizations, but our reports do confirm that, as a result
of the activities of these two bodies, particularly the
former, an atmosphere was created in the country in
which such a ghastly tragedy became possible. There is
no doubt in my mind that the extreme section of the
Hindu Mahasabha was involved in the conspiracy. The
activities of the RSS constituted a clear threat to the
existence of Government and the State. Our reports show
that those activities, despite the ban, have not died down.
Indeed, as time has marched on, the RSS circles are
becoming more defiant and are indulging in their
subversive activities in an increasing measure.25

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 Did RSS support the Freedom Movement?

The RSS claims to be the greatest embodiment of nationalism in

the country today. The people of this country would like to know
which movements were launched by the RSS before 1947, to free
India from British imperialism. Who amongst its leaders and
cadres suffered repression under colonial rule? Who amongst them
went to jail or became martyrs for the cause of the freedom of the
country? Any patriot of the country is bound to receive shock of
life after reading the following narratives of Golwalkar about the
different phases of the Freedom Movement.
There is another reason for the need of always remaining
involved in routine work. There is some unrest in the
mind due to the situation developing in the country from
time to time. There was such unrest in 1942. Before that
there was the movement in 1930-31. At that time many
other people had gone to Doctorji (By Doctorji is meant
Dr. Hedgewar, the founder of the RSS). This delegation
requested Doctorji that this movement will give
independence and Sangh should not lag behind. At that
time, when a gentleman told Doctorji that he was ready to
go to jail, Doctorji said: „Definitely go. But who will take
care of your family then? That gentleman replied, „I have
sufficiently arranged resources not only to run the family
expenses for two years but also to pay fines according to
the requirements‟, then Doctorji told him: „If you have
fully arranged for the resources then come out to work for
the Sangh for two years‟. After returning home that
gentleman neither went to jail nor came out to work for
the Sangh.26
This incident clearly shows that the RSS leadership was bent upon
demoralising the honest patriotic persons to run away from the

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cause of Freedom Movement.
Non-cooperation and Quit India movements were two great
milestones in the history of the Indian Freedom Movement and
here is the great thesis of great Golwalkar on these two great
happenings of the Freedom Movement.
Definitely there are bound to be bad results of struggle.
The boys became unruly after the 1920-21 movement. It
is not an attempt to throw mud at the leaders. But these
are inevitable products after the struggle. The matter is
that we could not properly control these results. After
1942, people often started thinking that there was no need
to think of the law.27
Thus Golwalkar wanted the Indians to respect the draconian and
repressive laws of the inhuman British rulers! While narrating the
RSS attitude towards Quit India Movement (1942) he admitted:
In 1942 also there was a strong sentiment in the hearts of
many. At that time too the routine work of Sangh
continued. Sangh vowed not to do anything directly.
However, upheaval (uthal-puthal) in the minds of Sangh
volunteers continued. Sangh is an organization of inactive
persons, their talks are useless, not only outsiders but also
many of our volunteers did talk like this. They were
greatly disgusted too.28
However, there is not a single publication or document of the
Sangh which could throw some light on the great work the RSS
did indirectly for the Quit India movement.
Golwalkar, the Sarsanghchalak of the RSS, was never able to
hide his opposition to any movement against foreign rule. As late
as March 1947 when the British rulers had decided to go away
from India, Guruji while addressing the annual day function of the
RSS at Delhi, declared that leaders with narrow vision were trying
to oppose the state power of the British. While elaborating the
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point, he said, that it was wrong to hold the powerful foreigners
responsible for our ills. He decried the tendency of “initiating the
political movements on the basis of our hatred towards our
victors.”29 While narrating an incident in the course of his speech
he got more original on the issue:
Once a respectable senior gentleman came to our shakha
(the drill). He had brought a new message for the
volunteers of the RSS. When given an opportunity to
address the volunteers of the shakha, he spoke in a very
impressive tone. „Now do only one work. Catch hold of
the British, bash them and throw them out. Whatever
happens we will see later on‟. He said this much and sat
down. Behind this ideology is a feeling of anger and
sorrow towards state power and reactionary tendency
based on hatred. The evil with today‟s political
sentimentalism is that its basis is reaction, sorrow and
anger, and opposition to the victors forgetting
friendliness.30
In all fairness to Guru Golwalkar, he did not claim that the RSS
had been opposed to the British. During the course of a speech at
Indore as late as 1960, he said:
Many people worked with the inspiration to free the
country by throwing the British out. After formal
departure of the British this inspiration slackened. In fact
there was no need to have this much inspiration. We
should remember that in our pledge we have talked of the
freedom of the country through defending religion and
culture. There is no mention of departure of the British in
that.31
The RSS was not even willing to regard colonial domination as an
injustice. In a speech on June 8, 1942, Golwalkar declared:
Sangh does not want to blame anybody else for the
present degraded state of the society. When the people
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 start blaming others, then there is weakness in them. It is
futile to blame the strong for the injustice done to the
weak.…Sangh does not want to waste its invaluable time
in abusing or criticizing others. If we know that large
fish eat the smaller ones, it is outright madness to blame
the big fish. Law of nature whether good or bad is true
all the time. This rule does not change by terming it
unjust.32
Golwalkar was not alone in denigrating the Freedom Struggle and
glorifying the British rulers. His Guru and founder of the RSS,
Hedgewar, had similar views. The official biography of Hedgewar
has the following meaningful statement, “After establishing Sangh
Doctor Saheb in his speeches used to talk only of Hindu
organization. Direct comment on Government used to be nil.”33
It may be interesting to know that the RSS literature available
on Hedgewar so far has absolutely no reference of any „indirect‟
comment on the barbaric and de-humanized „Gorashahi‟; the
British rule. Even the close scrutiny and scanning of the
Nationalist Press of the times of the freedom struggle throws no
light on any role played by the RSS.
The RSS thus can be seen as having played an extremely
dubious role throughout the freedom struggle. All evidence points
towards its disruptive activities and the fact that the organization
and its leadership were never a part of the Freedom Movement.
The single most important contribution of the RSS was to
consistently disrupt the unified struggle of the Indian people
against British imperialism through its extreme exclusivist slogan
of Hindu Rashtra.
Syama Prasad Mookerji RSS/Hindutva icon who allied with the
Muslim League & the British rulers
The Hindutva brigade is fond of declaring Dr. Mookerjee as great
nationalist and patriot who laid down his life for the unity of the
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nation. Modi described him as ―a statesman, thinker and a patriot
who devoted his life towards strengthening national integration. The
Hindutva rhetoric about patriotism of Dr. Mookerjee needs to be
cross-checked with the contemporary documents available even in
RSS and Hindu Mahasabha archives. Perusal of these documents
clearly shows that the claim that Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee was a
"selfless patriot" and a great patriot right from his birth is a white lie.
Dr Mookerjee never-never participated in the anti-colonial freedom
struggle. If patriotism means being part of the freedom struggle and
making sacrifices, Dr Mookerjee not only kept aloof from it but also
betrayed it by collaborating with the British rulers and the Muslim
League in order to crush and communally polarize the anti-British
liberation movement.
In pre-Independence times he was a prominent leader of the Hindu
Mahasabha which was led by V.D. Savarkar. When in 1942 Congress
gave a call to the British rulers to leave India immediately by
launching Quit India Movement, the rulers responded to this mass
movement by unleashing a reign of terror. Congress was banned, its
provincial governments were dismissed, whole of India was turned
into a jail and thousands died in the repression unleashed by armed
forces of the British and native rulers. The crime of many of those
who were killed was that they were carrying a Tricolour. Hindu
nationalist organizations namely, Hindu Mahasabha and RSS with
Muslim nationalist organization, Muslim League not only boycotted
Quit India Movement but also decided to support the British
government in its repressive campaign.
The Hindu Mahasabha president 'Veer„ Savarkar chronicled this
ganging up of Hindu Mahasabha with the Muslim League in his
presidential speech to the 24th session of the Hindu Mahasabha at
Kanpur in 1942. This shocking confession appears later in the last
chapter of the book.
Following the Hindu Mahasabha directive to co-operate with the
British, the Hindutva icon, Dr. Mookerjee assured the British masters
through a letter dated July 26, 1942. It read:

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 “Let me now refer to the situation that may be created in the
province as a result of any widespread movement launched
by the Congress. Anybody, who during the war, plans to stir
up mass feeling, resulting internal disturbances or
insecurity, must be resisted by any Government that may
function for the time being”34
His letter to Bengal governor that the Fazlul Haq led Bengal
Government, along with its alliance partner Hindu Mahasabha
(Mookerjee being Deputy CM in this ministry) made concrete
suggestions for crushing the QIM. He wrote:
“The question is how to combat this movement (Quit
India) in Bengal? The administration of the province
should be carried on in such a manner that in spite of the
best efforts of the Congress, this movement will fail to take
root in the province. It should be possible for us, especially
responsible Ministers, to be able to tell the public that the
freedom for which the Congress has started the movement,
already belongs to the representatives of the people. In
some spheres it might be limited during the emergency.
Indians have to trust the British, not for the sake for
Britain, not for any advantage that the British might gain,
but for the maintenance of the defense and freedom of the
province itself. You, as Governor, will function as the
constitutional head of the province and will be guided
entirely on the advice of your Minister."35
A prominent historian R.C. Majumdar who is also regarded as a true
'Bhartiye' or Indian historian by the Hindutva brigade commenting on
this letter wrote:

“Syama Prasad ended the letter with a discussion of the

mass movement organised by the Congress. He expressed
the apprehension that the movement would create internal
disorder and will endanger internal security during the war
by exciting popular feeling and he opined that any
government in power has to suppress it, but that according

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 to him could not be done only by persecution…. In that
letter he mentioned item wise the steps to be taken for
dealing with the situation…” 36

Backstabbing Netaji Subhash Chander Bose

In a more shocking development, the Hindu Mahasabha of Dr
Mookerjee decided to help the British rulers in World War II. It was
the time when Subhash Chandra Bose, known as Netaji, was
organizing the INA (Azad Hind Fauj) in a military campaign to force
the British out. The extent to which the Hindu Mahasabha was
willing to help the British masters is clear from the following
directive issued by Savarkar as President of the Mahasabha:
“So far as India‟s defence is concerned, Hindudom must
ally unhesitatingly, in a spirit of responsive co-operation,
with the war effort of the Indian government in so far as it
is consistent with the Hindu interests, by joining the Army,
Navy and the Aerial forces in as large a number as possible
and by securing an entry into all ordnance, ammunition and
war craft factories…. Again it must be noted that Japan‟s
entry into the war has exposed us directly and immediately
to the attack by Britain‟s enemies. Consequently, whether
we like it or not, we shall have to defend our own hearth
and home against the ravages of the war and this can only
be done by intensifying the government‟s war effort to
defend India. Hindu Mahasabhaites must, therefore, rouse
Hindus especially in the provinces of Bengal and Assam as
effectively as possible to enter the military forces of all
arms without losing a single minute.”37
Despite all these shocking facts being available in the Hindutva
archives, the Hindutva brigade continues to falsify history. The
Hindutva juggernaut is in full steam demolishing the great, heroic and
selfless sacrifices of thousands of Indian who laid down their lives for
the freedom of India against the colonial masters and their stooges
like Princes and Muslim League. The Hindutva gang is trying to
replace the braves and heroes of anti-colonial history with stooges

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and collaborators. It makes one fact very clear that BJP/RSS do not
have a single person to be presented as freedom fighter. However, it
is terribly sad that those who love martyrs of the great anti-colonial
struggle and respect glorious liberation struggle are not there to
encircle places in protest where the Hindutva denigrates the real
martyrs and freedom fighters and attempts to establish collaborators
as patriots.

Does RSS respect martyrs of the Freedom Movement like

Bhagat Singh?

There is no dearth of proofs in the documents of the RSS which

conclusively establish the fact that RSS denounced movements led
by revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekar Azad and
their associates. Not only that, they hated even the reformist and
moderate movements conducted by leaders like Gandhiji against
the British rulers.
Here is a passage from the chapter, „Martyr, Great But Not
Ideal‟ of Bunch Of Thoughts, the collection of writings of MS
Golwalkar decrying the whole tradition of martyrs. After declaring
that his objects of worship have always been successful lives and
that 'Bhartiya culture' [which surely means RSS culture] does not
adore and idealize martyrdom and do not treat "such martyrs as
their heroes", he went on to philosophise that,
There is no doubt that such man who embrace martyrdom
are great heroes and their philosophy too is pre-eminently
manly. They are far above the average men who meekly
submit to fate and remain in fear and inaction. All the same,
such persons are not held up as ideals in our society. We
have not looked upon their martyrdom as the highest point
of greatness to which men should aspire. For, after all, they

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 failed in achieving their ideal, and failure implies some fatal
flaw in them.38
Could there be a statement more insulting and denigrating to the
martyrs than this?
It will be shocking for any Indian who loves the martyrs of the
Freedom Movement to know what Hedgewar and the RSS felt
about the revolutionaries fighting against the British. According to
his biography published by the RSS,
Patriotism is not only going to prison. It is not correct to be
carried away by such superficial patriotism. He used to urge
that while remaining prepared to die for the country when
the time came, it is very necessary to have a desire to live
while organizing for the freedom of the country.39
It is indeed a pity that „fools‟ like Bhagat Singh, Rajguru,
Sukhdev, Ashfaqullah Khan and Chandrashekhar Azad did not
come into contact with this great patriotic thinker. If they had the
great opportunity to meet him, these martyrs could have been
saved from giving their lives for „superficial patriotism‟.

Even the word „shameful‟ is not appropriate to describe the

attitude of the RSS leadership towards those who had sacrificed
everything in the struggle against the British rulers. The last
Mughal ruler of India, Bahadur Shah Zafar had emerged as the
rallying point for the patriotic Indians and symbol of the Great
War of Independence of 1857. Golwalkar wrote thus while making
fun of him:
In 1857, the so-called last emperor of India had
given the clarion call-Gazio mein bu rahegi jub
talak eeman ki/takhte London tak chalegi tegh
Hindustan ki (Till the warriors remain faithful to
their commitment/Indian swords will reach throne
of London.) But ultimately what happened?

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 Everybody knows that.40
What Golwalkar thought of the people sacrificing their lot for
the country is obvious from the following words of his also. He
had the temerity to ask the great revolutionaries who wished to lay
down their lives for the freedom of the motherland the following
question as if he was representing the British:
But one should think whether complete national
interest is accomplished by that? Sacrifice does not
lead to increase in the thinking of the society of
giving all for the interest of the nation. It is borne
by the experience up to now that this fire in the
heart is unbearable to the common people.41

This also must be the reason that RSS produced no fighters or

martyrs during the Freedom Movement.

How does non-political RSS conspire to manipulate national

politics?

We often hear that the RSS is a socio-cultural organization and has

nothing to do with politics. Organiser, mouthpiece of the RSS, in
its editorial of February 6, 2000 went on to claim that,
The RSS is not a political party. It does not take part in
elections nor its office bearers are supposed to become
office bearers of any political party. The RSS has no
election symbol nor its leadership or members have ever
endeavoured to seek political office. It is a social-cultural
organization trying to inspire all national activity.
We must compare this claim of the RSS with the following two
statements of Golwalkar, who headed the RSS after the death of

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Hedgewar, and is considered the greatest ideologue of the
organization till date. The first statement tells us about the kind of
personnel who are sent to manipulate politics and what is expected
of them by the RSS. While delivering a speech on March 16, 1954,
in Sindi, Wardha, he said,
If we say that we are part of the organization and accept its
discipline then selectiveness has no place in life. Do what is
told. If told to play kabaddi, play kabaddi; told to hold
meeting then meeting….For instance some of our friends
were told to go and work for politics that does not mean that
they have great interest or inspiration for it. They don‟t die
for politics like fish without water. If they are told to
withdraw from politics then also there is no objection. Their
discretion is just not required.42
The second statement is also very significant and clearly highlights
the high level of political ambitions of the RSS. While addressing
the leading RSS cadres at Indore on March 5, 1960 he said:
We know this also that some of our Swayamsevaks work in
politics. There they have to organize according to the needs
of work public meetings, processions etc., have to raise
slogans. All these things have no place in our work.
However, like the character in a play whatever role has been
assigned should be portrayed with best of capability. But
sometimes Swayamsevaks go beyond the role assigned to a
performer (nat) as they develop over-zealousness in their
hearts, to the extent that they become useless for this work.
This is not good.43
We find here Golwalkar referring to the Swayamsevaks loaned to
political satellite as ‘nat’ or performers who are meant to dance to
the tunes of the RSS. This fact should not be missed here that
Golwalkar‟s above design of controlling the political arm was
elaborated in March 1960 almost nine years after the establishment
of Jansangh (the forerunner of the BJP) in 1951.
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BJP NOT INDEPENDENT OF RSS
The RSS leadership keeps on harping that BJP is an independent
political organization and does not work under the dictates of the
RSS. It is pertinent that one compares this information with the
facts available in the official publications of the RSS. The central
publication house of the RSS, the Suruchi Prakashan, has
published a book, Param Vaibhav Ke Path Par (The Road to
Glory) in 1997 giving details of more than 40 organizations
created by the RSS for different tasks. The BJP as a political
organization figures prominently in it, clubbed with the ABVP,
Hindu Jagaran Manch, Vishva Hindu Parishad, Swadeshi Jagaran
Manch and Sanskar Bharti. The preface of the book itself declares
that,
Without the knowledge of the different kinds of activities
of the Sawyamsevaks (the volunteers of the RSS) the
introduction of the RSS is incomplete. Keeping this in
mind it has been attempted in this book to produce the
brief information about the diverse activities of the
Sawyamsevaks. This book covers the organizational
status till 1996…We believe that this book will prove to
be of use for those who want to understand the RSS with
the Swyamsevaks.44
In this book the BJP figures at number three in the list of
prominent organizations created by the RSS. This book discusses
the creation and development of the BJP under the aegis of the
RSS in full three pages.
RSS & Conspiracies

The above publication of the RSS shows how the organization

is run in a clandestine manner. It runs like a well-organized mafia
through its subsidiaries and satellites. There has always been a
conscious attempt to create confusion about its different fronts
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which provide RSS with the opportunity to dissociate with any of
these as per its convenience. For instance it used Hindu Jagaran
Manch (HJM) for attacking Christians in late 1990s and when
public opinion, media and Parliament seemed to turn against it,
RSS denied any relation with HJM. Recently, when nefarious
designs of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal and Dharam
Sansad were exposed before the Nation, RSS announced that these
were independent organizations. Interestingly, it was often seen
mediating between the BJP lead government (1998-2004) and
these fronts.

It will be interesting to know that many of these organizations

have been organized in a clandestine manner, a characteristic of a
Fascist set-up. For instance while giving the details of Hindu
Jagaran Manch (HJM), the book says,
From the point of view of Hindu awakening this
kind of forums (HJM) at present are active in 17
states with different names like „Hindu Manch‟ in
Delhi, „Hindu Munani‟ in Tamilnadu, „Hinduekjut‟
in Maharashtra. These are forums, not associations
or organizations, that‟s why it is not required to
have membership, registration and elections.45
It is clear that these work as mafia to avoid scrutiny by law
and government. Such an organizational mode provides an
opportunity to RSS to disown any individual or organization.

RSS indulges in conspiracies too. It can be known by the

following disclosure in Param Vaibhav Ke Path Par about a case
in Delhi immediately after Partition:
Swayamsevaks had posed to have adopted
Musalman religion in order to gain the confidence
of Delhi Muslim League for knowing their
conspiracies.46

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What these swayamsevaks, impersonating as Muslims, on the eve
of Independence were doing was made clear by none other than
Dr. Rajendra Prasad who later became first President of the Indian
Republic. In a letter to the first Home Minister of India, Sardar
Patel, on 14 March 1948, Prasad wrote:
I am told that RSS people have a plan of creating trouble.
They have got a number of men dressed as Muslims and
looking like Muslims who are to create trouble with the
Hindus by attacking them and thus inciting the Hindus.
Similarly there will be some Hindus among them who will
attack Muslims and thus incite Muslims. The result of this
kind of trouble amongst the Hindus and Muslims will be to
create a conflagration.47

Is RSS helping organizations like ISI?

The ISI the dreaded intelligence network of Pakistan is working

overtime in its attempts to subvert the secular-democratic Indian
State; there can be no two opinions on this count. (Though there is
no guarantee that CIA, the KGB and the Mossad, the intelligence
agencies of USA, Russia and Israel, respectively, would like to
have a United India) However, the much-talked designs of the ISI
for dismemberment of India need deeper probing. There are many
serious questions that require proper and objective answers. Is it
the complete truth that only the ISI is trying to foment communal
trouble in this country? Did not the communal fascist acts like
attacks on Christians in Gujarat, Orissa, Karnataka, Madhya
Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh,
demolition of Babri mosque by the cadres of the RSS in 1992 and
carnage of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 have turned India into a
communal volcano to the joy of organizations like the ISI? Are not
there communal elements flying the banner of Hindutva, well
entrenched in our country, enjoying state support, are out with full

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force to destroy the communal peace of the country? Are these not
the same forces that are making the job of ISI, which wants to see
India destroyed, easier?
Organizations like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Hindu
Jagran Manch (HJM) and Bajrang Dal (BD), and other affiliates of
the RSS, after using Gujarat as a laboratory for religious cleansing
of minorities, specially, Christians and Muslims for last so many
years, are spreading their tentacle throughout India. The leaflets
containing highly provocative statements like,
„Muslims are filth of the gutter, don‟t let them enter in
your houses‟, or „Wherever Christian priests have gone in
the world, they loot the people. Lies and deceit are their
religion. The Christian priests teach people to tell lies, to
steal in the name of religion…They curse Hindus, and
decry the Hindu religion. Awaken Hindus and struggle
against these thieves who lie, who rob you of your rights,
and bring these people to their senses and put their pride
in place‟, or „One addition in the population of Christians
or Muslims is not only the addition of anti-Hindu but
anti-national person.‟48
Such poisonous leaflets distributed on behalf of Vishwa Hindu
Parishad (VHP), Hindu Jagaran Manch and Bajrang Dal used to be
mostly confined to Gujarat earlier, are now being distributed in
different parts of the country. The fascist ideas contained in these
leaflets are not the brainchild of some hot-headed cadre. In fact,
the „Holy‟ book for the RSS cadres Bunch of Thoughts, has a long
chapter titled as „Internal Threats‟ in which Muslims and
Christians are described as threat number one and two
respectively. This chapter opens with the following statement.
It has been the tragic lesson of the history of many a
country in the world that the hostile elements within the
country pose a far greater menace to national security
then aggressors from outside.49
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While treating Muslims as hostile element number one, Golwalkar
goes on to elaborate,
Even to this day there are so many who say, „now there is
no Muslim problem at all. All those riotous elements who
supported Pakistan have gone away once for all. The
remaining Muslims are devoted to our country. After all,
they have no other place to go and they are bound to
remain loyal‟….It would be suicidal to delude ourselves
into believing that they have turned patriots overnight
after the creation of Pakistan. On the contrary, the
Muslim menace has increased a hundredfold by the
creation of Pakistan which has become a springboard for
all their future aggressive designs on our country50
He goes on to spit venom against common Muslims in the
following words,
...within the country there are so many Muslim pockets,
i.e., so many „miniature Pakistans‟… The conclusion is
that, in practically every place, there are Muslims who are
in constant touch with Pakistan over the transmitter…51
According to him every Muslim in India is untrustworthy and
disloyal, “Even today, Muslims, whether in high positions of the
Government or outside, participate openly in rabidly anti-national
conferences.”52
While deliberating on the „Internal Threat‟ number two, he
says,
Such is the role of Christian gentlemen residing in our
land today, out to demolish not only the religious and
social fabric of our life but also to establish political
domination in various pockets and if possible all over the
land.53
Golwalkar, finally, following into the foot steps of Hitler, arrives
at the following solution for the minority problem,
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 From this stand point, sanctioned by the experience of
shrewd old nations, the foreign races in Hindusthan must
either adopt the Hindu culture and language, must learn
to respect and hold in reverence Hindu religion, must
entertain no idea but those of the glorification of the
Hindu race and culture, i.e., of the Hindu nation and must
lose their separate existence to merge in the Hindu race,
or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the
Hindu Nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges,
far less any preferential treatment not even citizen‟s
rights. There is, at least should be, no other course for
them to adopt. We are an old nation: let us deal, as old
nations ought to and do deal, with the foreign races who
have chosen to live in our country.54

Does RSS believe in Two-Nation Theory like pre-Partition

Muslim League?

RSS by declaring that Hindus are a separate nation has, in fact,

been supplementing the Two-Nation Theory as practiced by the
Muslim League. Both hold same views about distinct characters
and exclusiveness of Hindus and Muslims. In fact, long before
Muslim League, it was VD Savarkar who propounded the Two-
Nation theory in India. Importantly, founder of RSS, Hedgewar
treated VD Savarkar of Hindu Mahasabha as his mentor,
philosopher and guide. Dhananjay Keer, official biographer of
Savarkar while describing the bond writes,
Before starting the volunteer organization known as
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Dr. Hedgewar had a long
discussion with Savarkar over the faith, form and future of
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 upright nationalist, Dr. Hedgewar wanted to conserve and
direct the energy of Hindu youth towards all-round uplift of
the Hindu Nation. After the collapse of the Non-co-
operation movement of Gandhi and the fiasco of the
Khilafat Movement, the country lay prostrate, and chaos
and confusion reigned in the student world. In the wake of
this confusion and in consultation with Savarkar and others,
Hedgewar decided to build up an organization to supply the
Hindu society with power and pillars.55
Another RSS luminary, former Deputy Prime Minister and Union
Home Minister, LK Advani, also admitted about his roots in
Savarkar‟s Hindutva. During a visit to Port Blair he candidly told
the gathering that there was no reason to feel shy of “Hindutva,
propounded at great length by Veer Savarkar. It is an all-
encompassing ideology with its roots in the country‟s heritage.”
Advani must be familiar with the terrible fact that Savarkar
was a great upholder of Two-Nation Theory. While addressing the
19th Session of Hindu Mahasabha at Ahmedabad in 1937, he said:
As it is, there are two antagonistic nations living side by
side in India. Several infantile politicians commit the
serious mistake in supposing that India is already welded
into a harmonious nation, or that it could be welded thus for
the mere wish to do so. These our well-meaning but
unthinking friends take their dreams for realities. That is
why they are impatient of communal tangles and attribute
them to communal organizations. But the solid fact is that
the so-called communal questions are but a legacy handed
down to us by centuries of cultural, religious and national
antagonism between the Hindus and Moslems. When time
is ripe you can solve them; but you can not suppress them
by merely refusing recognition of them. It is safer to
diagnose and treat deep-seated disease than to ignore it. Let
us bravely face unpleasant facts as they are. India cannot be
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 assumed today to be a Unitarian and homogenous nation,
but on the contrary there are two nations in the main: the
Hindus and the Moslems, in India.56
The fact should not be missed that Muslim League passed its
Pakistan resolution in 1940 only. Savarkar, the great philosopher
and guide of RSS, not only propagated Two-Nation Theory long
before but entered into alliances with Muslim League in order to
break „Quit India Movement‟. While delivering Presidential
address to the 24th session of Hindu Mahasabha at Cawnpore
(Kanpur) in 1942, he defended hobnobbing with the Muslim
League in the following words,
In practical politics also the Mahasabha knows that we must
advance through reasonable compromises. Witness the fact
that only recently in Sind, the Sind-Hindu-Sabha on
invitation had taken the responsibility of joining hands with
the League itself in running coalition Government. The case
of Bengal is well known. Wild Leaguers whom even the
Congress with all its submissiveness could not placate grew
quite reasonably compromising and socialable as soon as
they came in contact with the Hindu Mahasabha and the
Coalition Government, under the premiership of Mr. Fazlul
Huq and the able lead of our esteemed Mahasabha leader
Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerji, functioned successfully for a
year or so to the benefit of both the communities. Moreover
further events also proved demonstratively that the Hindu
Mahasabhaits endeavoured to capture the centres of
political power only in the public interests and not for the
leaves and fishes of the office.57
Hindu Mahasabha and Muslim League formed a coalition
government in NWFP also.
The RSS, following the footsteps of Savarkar, rejected out rightly
the idea that Hindus and Muslims together constituted a nation.

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The English organ of the RSS, Organiser, on the very eve of
Independence (August 14, 1947) editorially chalked out its
concept of nation in the following words:
Let us no longer allow ourselves to be influenced by false
notions of nationhood. Much of the mental confusion and
the present and future troubles can be removed by the ready
recognition of the simple fact that in Hindusthan only the
Hindus form the nation and the national structure must be
built on that safe and sound foundation…the nation itself
must be built up of Hindus, on Hindu traditions, culture,
ideas and aspirations.
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, a keen researcher of the communal politics in
pre-independence India, while underlying the affinity and
camaraderie between Hindu Mahasabha and Muslim League on
the issue of Two-Nation Theory wrote:
Strange it may appear, Mr. Savarkar and Mr. Jinnah instead
of being opposed to each other on the one nation versus two
nations issue are in complete agreement about it. Both
agree, not only agree but insist that there are two nations in
India—one the Muslim nation and the other Hindu nation.58
With these facts before us, it is not difficult to realize how
dangerous RSS is for the country. It is high time that RSS must be
categorically told that it must join the national mainstream and
must take effective corrective steps to indianise itself so that it
does not play supportive role to the anti-national forces which are
bent upon destroying democratic-secular-federal polity of India.
We must heed to the advice Dr. B. R. Ambedkar who said:
"If Hindu Raj does become a fact, it will, no doubt,
be the greatest calamity for this country… [It] is a
menace to liberty, equality and fraternity. On that
account it is incompatible with democracy. Hindu
Raj must be prevented at any cost."59

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References
1
Golwalkar, M.S., We Or Our Nationhood Defined, Bharat Publications, Nagpur, 1939, p. 35.
2
Ibid, p. 47.
3
Casolari, Marzia, „Hindutva‟s Foreign Tie-up in the 1930‟s-Archival Evidence‟, Economic &
Political Weekly, January 22, 2000, pp. 218-219.
4
Savarkar, V.D., Samagra Savarkar Wangmaya: Hindu Rashtra Darshan (Collected Works of VD
Savarkar), vol. VI, Maharashtra Prantik Hindusabha, Poona, 1963, p. 418.
5
Cited in Marzia Casolari, p. 223.
6
Ibid.
7
Golwalkar, M.S., Shri Guruji Samagar Darshan (collected works of Golwalkar in Hindi),
Bhartiya Vichar Sadhna, Nagpur, nd., volume 1, p. 98. Hereafter referred as SGSD.
8
Golwalkar, M.S., Bunch of Thoughts, Sahitya Sindhu, Bangalore, 1996, pp. 237-238. For more
material on this issue see:
ttps://www.academia.edu/1103098/Tiranga_For_Muslims_And_Saffron_For_Hindus_By_Shamsul
_Islam_
9
Ibid, p. 238.
10
Savarkar, V.D., „Women in Manusmriti‟ in Savarkar Samagar (collection of
Savarkar‟s writings in Hindi) volume IV, Prabhat, Delhi, 2000, p. 416.
11
This selection of Manu‟s Codes is from F. Max Muller, Laws of Manu (Delhi: LP Publications,
1996; first published in 1886). The bracket after each code incorporates number of chapter/number
of code according to the above edition.
12
Golwalkar, M. S., Bunch of Thoughts, p.36-37.
13
Manusmriti (Hindi), Sadhna, Delhi, 1999.
14
Ramsukhdas, Swami, How To Lead A Household Life, Gita Press, Gorakhpur, 1999, p.43. (Gita
Press has more than 15 titles denigrating women in many Indian languages including English. Some
of the titles openly preach Sati and violence against women which are serious crimes under the
Indian Penal Code.
15
Ibid, p. 36.
16
RSS, Shakha Darshikha, Gyan Ganga, Jaipur, 1997, p. 1.
17
Ibid, p. 66.
18
SGSD, Volume I, p. 11.
19
Ibid, Volume III, p. 128.
20
Ibid, p. 70.
21
Bunch of Thoughts, p. 227.
22
Cited in Justice on Trial, RSS, Bangalore, 1962, p. 64.
23
Ibid, pp. 65-66.
24
Ibid, pp.26-28.
25
Letter 64 in Sardar Patel: Select Correspondence1945-1950, volume 2, Navjivan Publishing
House, Ahmedabad, 1977, pp. 276-77.
26
SGSD, volume IV, pp. 39-40.
27
Ibid, p. 41.
28
Ibid, p. 40.
29
Ibid, volume I, p. 109.
30
Ibid, pp. 109-110.
31
SGSD, volume IV, p. 2.
32
Ibid, volume I, pp. 11-12.
33
Bhishikar, C.P., Sanghavariksh Ke Beej: Dr. Keshavrao Hedgewar, Suruchi, 1994 p. 24.
34
Mookerjee, Syama Prasad, Leaves from a Diary, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 179.

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35
Cited in Noorani, AG, The RSS and BJP: A Division of Labour, LeftWord Books, Delhi, 56-57.
36
Majumdar, RC, History of Modern Bengal, vol. 2, G. Bharadwaj & Co, Calcutta, p. 350.
37
Savarkar, V.D., Samagra Savarkar Wangmaya: Hindu Rashtra Darshan, vol. 6, Maharashtra
Prantik Hindusabha, Poona, 1963, p. 460.
38
Bunch of Thoughts, p. 283.
39
CP Bhishikar, Sanghavariksh Ke Beej: Dr. Keshavrao Hedgewar, p. 21.
40
SGSD, vol. I, Bharatiya Vichar Sadhana, Nagpur, nd, p. 121.
41
Ibid. pp. 61-62.
42
SGSD, volume III, p. 32.
43
Ibid, volume IV, pp. 4-5.
44
Sapre, Sadanand D., Parm Vaibhav Ke Path Per, Suruchi, Delhi, 1997, p. 7.
45
Sapre, Sadanand D., Parm Vaibhav Ke Path Per, Suruchi, Delhi, 1997, p. 64.
46
Sapre, Sadanand D., Param Vaibhav Ke Path Per (Hindi), Suruchi, Delhi, 1997, p. 86.
47
Rajendra Prasad to Sardar Patel (March 14, 1948) cited in Neerja Singh (ed.), Nehru - Patel:
Agreement Within Difference—Select Documents & Correspondences 1933-1950, NBT, Delhi,
p. 43.
48
From leaflets of the offsprings of the RSS like VHP, Bajrang Dal, Hindu Jagaran Manch etc.
49
Bunch of Thoughts, p. 177.
50
Ibid, pp. 177-178.
51
Ibid, p. 185.
52
Ibid, p. 187.
53
Ibid, p. 193.
54
We Or Our Nationhood Defined, , pp.47-48
55
Keer, Dhananjay, Veer Savarkar, Popular, Bombay, 1950, pp. 170-171.
56
Samagar Savarkar Wangmaya (Collected Works of Savarkar), Hindu Mahasabha, Poona, 1963,
p.296
57
Ibid, pp. 479-480, Hindu Mahasabha and Muslim League also ran a coalition government in
North-Western Frontier Province.
58
Ambedkar, B. R., Pakistan or the Partition of India, Govt. of Maharashtra, Bombay, 1990
[Reprint of 1940 edition], p. 142.
59
Ibid., p. 358.

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