The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) continues to make headlines, despite several books tracing
its journey. Curiosity about the functioning of the RSS has increased phenomenally as swayamsevaks
have risen to top positions in government and the Sangh's core ideas of Hindu Rashtra and Ekatmata
have become the mainstream lexicon of our social and political space.
So, what is the RSS's imagination for India? If India becomes a Hindu Rashtra, what will be the
place of Muslims and other faiths in it? How big is the RSS project of history writing? Will Hindutva
override caste politics? And what is the RSS view of social issues pertaining to the changing nature
of family, the rights of people with different sexual orientations and the third gender?
These contentious questions are just a few of the myriad political and social issues that Sunil
Ambekar, a high-ranking pracharak, analyses in his book