The all inclusive & global Hindutva view of RSS is defined in a new book by an ABVP leader likely to publish on Oct 1.

Hindutva is the natural destination of the world and to be our greatest cultural export: ABVP leader.

Tell-all book on RSS and its Hindutva to hit the stands soon.

Upendra Bharti | HENB | New Delhi | Sept 25, 2019:: A new book will discuss topics of India’s future, its inter-faith equations, caste politics, the rights of LGBTQ people and obviously the burning and debatable topic of Hindutva from the point of view of Rashtra Swayamsevak Sang (RSS); Rupa Publications announced on days earlier.

“The RSS: Roadmaps for the 21st Century“, written by Sunil Ambekar, national organising secretary of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) will shed light on the right-wing organisation’s functioning, outreach and vision for the future.

“The 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 the government and the Sangh’s core ideas of Hindutva, Hindu Rashtra and Ekatmata have become the mainstream lexicon of our social and political space,” the publisher said in a statement.

While the critics of the Sangh, the ideological mentor of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have parsed it for fostering Hindutva, a hardline ideological standpoint that is used for creating schism between the majority and the minority communities in the country, Ambekar in his book, The RSS Roadmap for the 21st Century, has defined Hindutva as a “bold visions for truth and oneness.”

“RSS considers Hindutva to be the natural destination of the world. It will be India’s greatest cultural export to the world, just as the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics which travel to South East Asia in the age of antiquity and shaped the culture there, and just as Buddhism was geared to years later,” the book says.

To be released by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on October 1; the book has dealt with several issues that the Sangh is often questioned about; for instance its stance on women; its opinion about caste based reservation; homosexuality and Indianisation of education.

In a chapter on the Rise of Santan Hindutva, the author says the principles of Hindutva predate the word and its applications and defines it as a way of life. It also lists the reconstruction of Ram temple, cow protection and the abrogation of article 370 of the Indian Constitution as important Hindutva concerns, linked to the identity and integrity of India.

In 2014, RSS chief had courted controversy when speaking at a function in Mumbai, he said “Hindustan is a Hindu nation…Hindutva is the identity of our nation and it (Hinduism) can incorporate others (religions) in itself”. Opposition parties such as the Congress and the Samajwadi Party had objected to this comment, but Ambekar also reiterates Bhagwat’s stance in the book.

Describing Hindutva as oneness he says, “When other forms of organising life like Christianity and Islam emerged, then for the sake of comparison, this oneness came to be notified as a Hindu way of life, interchangeably also known as Hindutva.”

Just as clarified that a ‘Hindu Rashtra does not exclude Muslims and other minorities’ by RSS Chief Bhagwat in a three days intellectual conclave in New Delhi in Sept 2018, the book says Muslims and Christians can also subscribe to Hindutva because it is a matter of national identity. “…Many are accepting it through a process of self-awakening. Not much convincing is required once the shibboleths of false knowledge crumble.”

The author also goes on to say that the Sangh’s “conception is that the ancestors of Muslims were Hindus. Therefore Hindus and Muslims share a common ancestry,” however, refers to a growing Muslim population as a challenge that cannot be overlooked.

“At the same time, no one can overlook certain evidences and trends. Undeniably, the growth rate of Muslims is out stripping the Hindu growth rate and some sections of the Muslim community are using this as a leverage. The history of partition of India and the eviction of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley in independent India, an old memories deeply ingrained into the Indian psyche,” it says.

The book will be released by RSS chief Dr Mohan Bhagwat on October 1 at the Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi.

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__with inputs from PTI (via The Week) and HT.

2 comments on “The all inclusive & global Hindutva view of RSS is defined in a new book by an ABVP leader likely to publish on Oct 1.”

1. T. Naidoo

   September 26, 2019

   

   We have to state the Hindu point of view on foreign invasive forces that claim to be religions. Our difficulties in Kashmir arise because we have accepted one foreign force that claims to be a religion. But we cannot explain the results.

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2. Arindam.

   September 26, 2019

   

   ‘The author also goes on to say that the Sangh’s “conception is that the ancestors of Muslims were Hindus. Therefore Hindus and Muslims share a common ancestry,”’

   Such common ancestry only means that the Muslims are traitors who betrayed their forefathers and converted to the cult of the invader. It is certainly no basis for unity, until and unless the traitors acknowledge their heinous crime, and make the necessary homecoming. Failing that, they can leave India and live in any one of the five dozen or so Muslim majority countries, thus completing the renunciation of their ancestry.

   Personally, I find it easier to tolerate Muslims who don’t have Indian ancestry.

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