![]() ![]() ![]() The RSS has been banned three times since it was established, including after Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by a former RSS member in 1948. The RSS is the leader of the “Sangh Parivar’’, an umbrella group of Hindu nationalist organisations who have set up schools, charities and clubs but which have also been associated with communal violence. ![]() It continues to work today to spread the ideology of Hindutva, with upwards of five million members. ![]() It was formed to provide unity and discipline to the Hindu community in order to build the Hindu Rastra (the Hindu state). Who are the RSS?Īt the heart of the Hindu nationalist movement in India is the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an all-male Hindu nationalist volunteer group, often described as a paramilitary organisation, formed in the 1920s. The Hindutva ideology has been associated with rightwing extremism and fascism due to the purist racial elements of the movement and its association with intolerance of minorities, in particular anti-Muslim sentiment and violence in India, which is 80% Hindu and 14% Muslim. Hindus are viewed more as an ethnic, rather than religious, group. Hindutva is the belief in the hegemony of Hinduism in India and the establishment of the country as a Hindu, rather than secular, state. Hindutva – a term coined in the 1920s in the writings of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar meaning “Hindu-ness” – is the predominant form of Hindu nationalism in India. ![]()
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