RSS and the BJP: A division of labour
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TextSeries: Signpost; 3Publication details: New Delhi: Leftword, 2000Edition: 1Description: xiv,118pISBN: 8187496-134Subject(s): Religious organisations-India | Indian politics | Political ScienceDDC classification: 322.10954 Summary: The fascist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, through its political arm, the BJP, is now at the centre of Indian politics. This poses a grave danger to Indian democracy and secularism. What was the role of the Hindutva forces in the struggle against the British? What links did Gandhiji's killer Nathuram Godse have with the RSS? How did the political arm of the RSS, the Jan Sangh, and its later incarnation, BJP, come into being? What actually happened on that fateful day of Dec. 6, 1992? What are the current agendas of the RSS? What does the elevation of the hardliner Sudarshan to the post of the Sarsanghchalak of the RSS mean? Marshalling a wealth of factual and archival detail, eminent lawyer and political commentator A.G. Noorani answers these and a host of other questions in his characteristically forthright and hard hitting style. Reprinted and updated til Feb. 2001.
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| 322.10954 MAN/V Vishva Hindu Parishad and Indian politics | 322.10954 MUK/S Secular common sense | 322.10954 NAT Nation, nationalism, and the public sphere : religious politics in India | 322.10954 NOO/R RSS and the BJP: A division of labour | 322.10954 NOO/R The RSS : a menace to India | 322.10954 NOO/S Savarkar and hindutva: the Godse connection | 322.10954 OUR Our republic post 6 December 1992: a dialogue |
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The fascist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, through its political arm, the BJP, is now at the centre of Indian politics. This poses a grave danger to Indian democracy and secularism. What was the role of the Hindutva forces in the struggle against the British? What links did Gandhiji's killer Nathuram Godse have with the RSS? How did the political arm of the RSS, the Jan Sangh, and its later incarnation, BJP, come into being? What actually happened on that fateful day of Dec. 6, 1992? What are the current agendas of the RSS? What does the elevation of the hardliner Sudarshan to the post of the Sarsanghchalak of the RSS mean? Marshalling a wealth of factual and archival detail, eminent lawyer and political commentator A.G. Noorani answers these and a host of other questions in his characteristically forthright and hard hitting style. Reprinted and updated til Feb. 2001.
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