Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
How KS Sudarshan Shaped the Sangh’s Intellectual Direction for the 21st Century
Kuppalli Sitaramayya Sudarshan, the fifth Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), was born on June 18, 1931 and passed away on September 15, 2012. His tenure as Sarsanghchalak (2000–2009) played a significant role in shaping the organisation’s intellectual direction …
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Why India’s Opposition Keeps Targeting the RSS—and Why It Isn’t Working
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), India’s largest volunteer-based socio-cultural organization, recently completed its centenary. Founded in 1925, it has grown into one of the world’s largest civil society movements, with millions of volunteers engaged in community service, education, disaster relief, …
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How Indian Courts and Tax Authorities Have Defined the Legal Status of the RSS
In recent years, critics of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)—India’s largest volunteer-based socio-cultural organization—have often questioned why it is not registered as a non-governmental organization (NGO). Such criticisms frequently imply that the RSS operates in a legal gray area or …
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Emergency (1975-77) in India: An Archive of RSS Martyrs
On the night of 24-25 June 1975, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a National Emergency across India. What followed was one of the most consequential periods in the history of the world’s largest democracy. For twenty-one months, from June 1975 …
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Emergency (1975–77): The Documented Brutality Faced by RSS Volunteers
The declaration of the Emergency on the night of June 24–25, 1975, by the Indira Gandhi government was triggered by a sudden existential crisis following the landmark Allahabad High Court judgment, which had disqualified the sitting Prime Minister for electoral …
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Understanding the Philosophical Foundation of RSS-Part 1
About the Source This article is Part 1 of a three-part series providing a curated translation and analysis of the handbook Vishay-Bindu. The excerpts are drawn from the Fifth Edition of the manual, published on Deepawali, Vikram Samvat 2069 (November …
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Hindu Rashtra and Religious Minorities: Decoding the RSS Perspective
Dattatreya Hosabale, the General Secretary (Sarkaryavah) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), recently spoke extensively, in a podcast with a news agency, on the long standing debate on “Hindu Rashtra(nation)” and the apprehensions of religious minorities in this regard, especially …
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