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Lost years of the RSS / Sanjeev Kelkar.
LIBRA DS480.84 .K43 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelkar, Sanjeev.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hedgewar, Keshav Baliram, 1889-1940.
- Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh--History.
- Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh.
- Political and social views.
- History.
- India--Politics and government--1947-.
- India.
- Politics and government.
- Hinduism--Relations--Islam.
- Hinduism.
- Relations.
- Islam.
- Hinduism and politics--India.
- Hinduism and politics.
- Hindutva.
- Hedgewar, Keshav Baliram, 1889-1940--Political and social views.
- Hedgewar, Keshav Baliram.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 354 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2011.
- Summary:
- Lost Years of the RSS is a historical analysis of the events that have shaped the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in its 85 years of existence. Written from an insider's perspective this in-depth work critically analyses the major turning points in the history of the RSS form the viewpoint of both a follower and an opponent, while digging deep into its sociopolitical history.
- Beginning with the politica1 ethnography of the RSS, the book charts the organisation's growth over time-from the Partition, the first ban, the Golwalkar, and Deoras periods, the demolition of Babri Masjid to the present, when the original principles of the sangh have been forgotten, leading to the current decadence Within the Organisation.
- The author concludes with suggestions for a way forward for the RSS, wherein the lessons learnt from the past can be put to use and the original values reinstated. At the heart of the book is the author's implicit desire to contradict the current media representations of the Sangh and portray the RSS as what it was actually meant to be. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Original design of the RSS : an analysis
- Political ethnography of the RSS
- Dominant tendencies of the Golwalkar era
- Withdrawal, return and ascent of Deoras
- The emergency and post-emergency
- The BJP, the Parivar and Deoras : 1980-85
- Catapulting the Hindu to the centre stage
- Road to political power and its aftermath
- The unipolar world and the RSS' response
- The future, if any
- The new Hindutva (violent) forces.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9788132105909
- 8132105907
- OCLC:
- 700042359
- Publisher Number:
- 99947630174
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