RSS and Hindu Nationalism

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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a Hindu nationalist volunteer organization. It is also the parent of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party Prime Minister Modi was himself a career RSS office-holder, or pracharak. This book explores how the RSS and its affiliates have benefitted from India's economic development and concurrent social dislocation, with rapid modernization creating a sense of rootlessness, disrupting traditional hierarchies, and attracting many upwardly mobile groups to the organization. This book offer an essential account of the RSS's rapid rise in recent decades, tracing how it has evolved in response to economic liberalization and assessing its long-term impact on Indian politics and society.

Chinmay Mahajan born in 1980 in the small village of Jadupur in Murshidabad district in West Bengal. Chinmay Mahajan received his higher education in Presidency College, Kolkata and Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He was awarded the PhD degree. Chinmay Mahajan is an Indian Political and Defense expert. His earliest works concerned the Civil War. He spearheads research in development studies in an array of areas, Defense, Military Science, information and communication studies, gender studies, etc. He has been Visiting Professor in international academic institutions.

The RSS, founded nearly 100 years ago, has profoundly shaped Indian society and politics and Modi himself. As he runs for a second term, the RSS influence is more apparent than ever something that alarms members of India's religious minorities and those who believe in the country's secular basis, who accuse the RSS of chauvinism and fostering intolerance and hate. When Indians won their freedom from British rule in 1947. they established a pluralistic democracy based on secular principles, embracing their diversity. But the RSS' goal is to redefine India according to its majority Hindu faith. Led since 2009 by longtime stalwart Mohan Bhagwat, the RSS is India's most prominent proponent of Hindutva - Hindu-ness and the idea that India should be a "Hindu nation." About 80 percent of India's 1.4 billion people are Hindus, but there are also millions of Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains. The constitution defines India as a secular country.