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RSS: MARKETING FASCISM AS
HINDU NATIONALISM
Indian democratic-secular polity is passing through the most critical phase since its birth on August 15, 1 947. It has been lately taken over by the RSS/BJP leaders committed to the Hindutva politics. This politics of Hindu separatism was neither part of modern India’s anti-colonial heritage nor has been faithful to the principles enshrined in the Preamble of the Constitution of India. The protagonists of Hindutva politics decried and continue to decry democracy, secularism, egalitarianism and an all-inclusive India.
This book provides an insight into the philosophical moorings of the followers of Hindutva and their action plans to convert India into a theocratic Hindu State. This Hindutva project led by RSS is in full steam with the BJP victory in the last parliamentary elections held in 2014. It is no more a hidden agenda as the incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi identifies himself as Hindu nationalist.
This study is based solely on the internal documents of the RSS/BJP and other fraternal Hindutva organizations. It is hoped that this RSS Reader will help researchers and common readers in getting acquainted with an ideology and its perpetrators who present the most lethal challenge to democratic-secular India.
Shamsul Islam taught political science at the University of Delhi (1973-2013). As an author, columnist and dramatist he has been writing against religious bigotry, dehumanization, totalitarianism, persecution of minorities, Dalits and women. He is known for his work on the rise of nationalism, specially religion based nationalism and its development in India and the world. He writes in English, Hindi and Urdu.

CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 Surreptitious change of course: Converting
democratic-secular polity into Hindu state
PM Modi’s favourite minister declares war on Indian
Constitution
CHAPTER 2 Manufacturing holiness of cow: A weapon of
cleansing of Muslims and Dalits
CHAPTER 3
Hitler and Mussolini as Gurus
Love for dictators and Neo-Nazis
RSS building a deadly alliance against Muslims and
Christians in India’s neighbourhood
Neo-Nazi mass murderer of Norway Breivik’s
linkages with Hindu nationalists
Genocide of Rohingyas in Myanmar
The Hindutva imprints
CHAPTER 4
Cleansing of Minorities as Priority
RSS facilitating the job of anti-national forces
8 I RSS: Marketing Fascism as Hindu Nationalism
Cleansing of minorities: Golwalkar’s direct involvement
Everyday a trial by fire (agnipriksha) of madrasaas to
prove patriotism
Madrasaas played great heroic role in India’s
freedom struggle
Will Taj Mahal meet the fate of the mosque at Ayodhya?
Som’s hilarious sense of ‘History’
Three ways Taj Mahal can be harmed
Inflaming hatred against Muslims for votes
A Hindu girl forced to commit suicide for writing
‘she liked Muslims’
1984 Sikh massacre: RSS/BJP rulers continue the
facade of searching for perpetrators
Two kinds of justice
History of the farcical justice in the 1984 massacre case
RSS ideologue Nana Deshmukh justified the massacre
of Sikhs in 1984
RSS against former PM Manmohan Singh’s apology
for 1984 massacre
‘Moments of Soul Searching’
CHAPTER 5 Indian freedom struggle and RSS: A story
of betrayal
RSS denigrated tradition of the martyrdom
Syama Prasad Mookerji: Hindutva icon who allied
with the Muslim League and the British rulers
Backstabbing Netaji Subhash Chander Bose
Eternal belief in the Two-Nation Theory
CHAPTER 6
Denigrating Dalits and Women
History of continuous delay in presenting reports
of National Commission for SC/ST
Laws of Manu concerning Sudras/Dalits
Laws of Manu concerning women
RSS book shops market anti-women literature which
propagates Sati and wife-beating
Modi: Manual scavenging by Sudras is their
“experience in spirituality”
Return of Untouchability: Courtesy RSS/BJP
Last Words of Dalit Martyr Rohith Vemula
Anti-Sudra Guru Dronacharya honoured on
Dr. Ambedkar’s birthday
Golwalkar on Crossbreeding in Kerala: Denigrating
Kerala Hindus specially Women
RSS Rolls out Racist Project of Producing Aryan’
Babies in India
CHAPTER 7
Hatred for democratic-secular-federal India
Denigration of the Tricolour: the National Flag
When Indian Nation celebrated adoption of the
Constitution RSS mourned it
Love For dictatorship
Against Federalism
Against secular India
RSS Oath:
RSS Prayer:
CHAPTER 8
RSS and conspiracies: Made for each other
Murder of MK Gandhi and Hindutva organizations
The military connection
CHAPTER 9 Celebrating ‘vadh’ (killing) of opponents is
embedded in the Hindutva politics
CHAPTER 10 Resurrecting Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya: A staunch believer in Hindutva, Hindu rashtra and Casteism who died
a mysterious death
Hindutva, Hindu nationalism and Hindu State as
core beliefs
10 j RSS: Marketing Fascism as Hindu Nationalism
Militarist ambitions of the Hindu nation to rule
over the world
Finding fault with the composite nationalism and
freedom struggle
Staunch defender of Casteism
Inimical attitude towards minorities
Upadhyaya as a perennial Muslim basher
For unitary form of government
Linkages with CIA
Mysterious death of Upadhyaya
CHAPTER 11 The Operation Take-Over Supreme Court.
Full text of the letter to the Chief Justice of India Dipak M’isra by top Supreme Court Justices Jasti Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan Lokur and Kurian Joseph
CONCLUSION
ANNEXURE What is RSS? By Madhu Limaye
INDEX