The RSS by A G Noorani
India is battling for its very soul. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RS) is the most powerful organization in India today; complete with a private army of its own, unquestionably obeying its leader who functions on fascist lines on the Fuehrer principle. Two of its pracharaks (active preachers) have gone on to become prime ministers of India. In 1951 it set up a political front, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which merged into the Janata Party in 1977 only to walk out of it in 1980. In issue was its superior loyalty to its parent and mentor, the RS; not the Janata Party. Within months of its defection, the Jana Sangh reemerged; not with the name under which it had functioned for nearly three decades, but as the Bharatiya Janata Party, deceptively to claim a respectable lineage. The RS is at war with India's past. It belittles three of the greatest builders of the Indian State - Ashoka, the Buddhist; Akbar, the Muslim; and Nehru, a civilized Enlightened Hindu. It would wipe out centuries of achievement for which the world has acclaimed India and replace that with its own narrow, divisive ideology. This book is a magisterial study of the RS, from its formation in 1925 to the present day. With scrupulous and voluminous evidence, one of India's leading constitutional experts and political analysts, A.G. Noorani, builds a watertight case to show how the RS is much more than a threat to communal amity. It poses a wider challenge. It is a threat to democratic governance and, even worse, a menace to India. It threatens the very soul of India. And yet, despite its reach and seemingly overwhelming political influence, the author shows that the RS can be defeated. The soul of India can be rescued.A.G. Noorani A.G. Noorani is an Advocate, Supreme Court of India, and a leading constitutional expert and political commentator. He is a regular columnist for the Frontline magazine published in India. Noorani has authored numerous books, that include: Islam, South Asia, and the Cold War (2012); Article 370: A Constitutional History of Jammu and Kashmir (2011); Jinnah and Tilak: Comrades in the Freedom Struggle (2010); India-China Boundary Problem 1846-1947: History and Diplomacy (2010); Indian Political Trials 1775-1947 (2006); Constitutional Questions and Citizens' Rights (2006); The Muslims of India: A Documentary Record (2003); Islam and Jihad: Prejudice versus Reality (2003); and The Babri Masjid Question 1528-2003: 'A Matter of National Honour'. The last is one is published in two volumes.
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| ISBN 13 | 9788194077879 |
| ISBN 10 | 8194077877 |
| Title | The RSS |
| Author | A G Noorani |
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| Publisher | LeftWord Books |
| Year published | 2020-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 548 |
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