What the RSS as 'Vishwaguru' Means for India and the World
The RSSâ drive to position India as preacher to the world encapsulates a long-term political programme of eliminating political dissent within the country and, later, establishing control over South Asia.
Mohan Bhagwat speaking on the RSS's foundation day. Photo: PTI
The world paid a heavy price for ignoring Adolf Hitlerâs
Mein Kampf. He, on his part, had suppressed nothing. His agenda, and the outlook which inspired it, were laid bare with perfect candour.
The Italian scholar Marzia Casolariâs classic
In the Shadow of the Swastika:
The Ambiguous Relationship between Indian Nationalism and Nazi Fascism [(2011), I Limri die mil, via Benedetti Marcello F, 40141 Bologna; Italy] based on stupendous research in the archives in New Delhi and Rome, exposes the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) and V.D. Savarkarâs attachment to the Nazi-Fascist ideals and the links and contacts between them.