The RSS
Title | The RSS PDF eBook |
Author | A. G. Noorani |
Publisher | Leftword Books |
Pages | 548 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9788194077879 |
India is battling for its very soul. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) 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 RSS; 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 RSS 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 RSS, 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 RSS 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 RSS can be defeated. The soul of India can be rescued.
The RSS
Title | The RSS PDF eBook |
Author | Abdul Gafoor Abdul Majeed Noorani |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Hinduism and politics |
ISBN | 9788193466681 |
"This book is a magisterial study of the RSS, 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 RSS 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." -- from inside flap.
Messengers of Hindu Nationalism
Title | Messengers of Hindu Nationalism PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Andersen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 431 |
Release | 2019-06-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1787382885 |
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. India seems more willing than ever to accept the RSS's narrative of Hindu nationalism--one that seeks to assimilate Hindus into a common identity representing true 'Indianness'. Yet the RSS has also come to resemble 'the Congress system', with a socially diverse membership containing a distinct left, right and center. The organization's most significant dilemma is how to reconcile the assault from its far right on cultural issues like cow protection with condemnations of globalization from the left flank. Andersen and Damle 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.
The RSS
Title | The RSS PDF eBook |
Author | Sunil Ambekar |
Publisher | Rupa Publications |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9789353336851 |
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) continues to make headlines, despite several books tracing its journey. Curiosity about the functioning of the RSS has increased phenomenally as swayamsevaks have risen to top positions in government and the Sangh's core ideas of Hindu Rashtra and Ekatmata have become the mainstream lexicon of our social and political space.
Know the RSS
Title | Know the RSS PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 2016 |
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River of Life, River of Death
Title | River of Life, River of Death PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Mallet |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198786174 |
India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. Victor Mallet traces the holy river from source to mouth, and from ancient times to the present day, to find that the battle to rescue what is arguably the world's most important river is far from lost.
How the BJP Wins
Title | How the BJP Wins PDF eBook |
Author | Prashant Jha |
Publisher | Juggernaut Books |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9386228459 |
What's the secret of Modi's mass appeal? How does the RSS help at election time? Does communal incitement actually win votes? Why did Amit ShahÕs election maths fail him in Bihar? Prashant Jha answers these questions and more, dissecting the BJPÕs election machine with authority and insight