Summary of this article
Ambedkar’s critique of Savarkar’s Hindutva and nationalist ideologies was ignored across political and academic circles.
RSS, founded by Brahmins, evolved from Hindu Mahasabha roots and remains politically tied to the BJP despite claiming to be cultural.
Its ideology is caste-bound, excluding Dalits and OBCs while opposing social justice and reservation movements.
“If Hindu Raj does become a fact, it will, no doubt, be the greatest calamity for this country,” said B. R. Ambedkar in Pakistan or the Partition of India . Ambedkar was the first thinker in India to produce a critique of V. D. Savarkar’s Hindutva and Hindu nation, as well as barrister M. A. Jinnah’s ideas of nation. His book is a scathing critique and a tormenting of the ideas of nation and nation