From Margins To Mainstream: Sangh's Long March Through Corridors of Power

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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is celebrating 100 years of its unbroken journey.

No organisation can ensure its endurance unless it steadfastly remains connected with the people.

While the Left-Liberals used their power to create a legitimacy deficit around the RSS, the organisation, in turn, generated a credibility deficit for them through the ideological awakening of Hindus.

While the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is celebrating 100 years of its unbroken journey, its contemporary ideological movements—the Communists-Socialists and the Gandhian-Nehuruvian streams—are facing a crisis of existence. The RSS began in 1925 with a contested idea of a Hindu Rashtra . It lived and expanded in an unsympathetic political and intellectual climate. Many centra