Amid bans and arrests, leader MS Golwalkar scrambled to salvage the Sangh, condemning the act and distancing from Godse, despite years of incendiary rhetoric Senior journalist Dhirendra K Jha ...

On at least three occasions in two decades, Golwalkar advocated amending the Constitution to provide for a unitary form of government, arguing that only “One State, One Legislature, One ...

A new book by veteran journalist and writer Dhirendra K Jha excavates this aspect of the Sangh Parivar through a well-researched, exhaustive, and accessibly written biography of one of the men who ...

An internal portal - This Day That Year - gives insiders exclusive access to this archival treasure, securing the legacy of ...

“I told him to read Guruji’s books," Harday says. That is not the compelling rebuttal he thinks it is. M.S. Golwalkar, known as Guruji, who led the RSS through India’s independence, wrote ...

Your browser does not support the <audio> element. It feels like a cross between a military parade and a school sports day. In the Indian city of Nagpur, thousands of ...

Thengadi quoted Ambedkar in his book as saying: “Between scheduled castes and communism, Ambedkar is the barrier." In September 1949, the second RSS sarsanghchalak MS Golwalkar or ‘Guruji’ went to ...

Golwalkar wrote: ‘‘I have not found even a small basis of Untouchability in the Manusmriti.’’ This proves that Ambedkar would not have associated himself with ‘Guruji’, as Golwalkar was called by his ...

The American scholar has researched the organisation since M.S. Golwalkar, the second sarsanghchalak. Asked who the RSS would prefer to be Modi’s successor, Andersen said that, while the leaders of ...