Foreword Kumar Ketkar
Introduction
Original Design of the RSS: An Analysis
Political Ethnography of the RSS
Other Dominant Tendencies of the Golwalkar Era
Withdrawal, Return and Ascent of Deoras
The Emergency and Post-Emergency
The BJP, the Parivar and Deoras: 1980-85
Catapulting the Hindu to the Centre Stage
Road to Political Power and Its Aftermath
The Unipolar World and the RSS′ Response
The Future, If Any
The New Hindutva (Violent) Forces
Epilogue: The Problem of Ideologies
Postscript: Ayodhya Judgement and Bihar Assembly Elections
Appendices
Glossary
References
Index
Sanjeev Kelkar has seen the RSS at close quarters, and at all
levels, for the last 43 years. He was brought up in a diehard RSS
family in Nagpur. It had close connections with the founder of the
RSS, Golwalkar, Deoras and many others.
As a part of his social commitment, he left Mumbai for a rural
tribal area medical service project and worked there for 11
years.
He is best described as an institution builder, an excellent
trainer, an educational technologist, a wizard at project
management and a gambler with his life. The excellent second-level
referral hospital that he created was for him a laboratory to
develop models to address the numerous needs of rural health
care.
He then made the unlikely leap from the rural to the highly complex
tertiary care super-specialty practice in CIIMS Hospital, Nagpur.
He won an award of Rs. 200,000 for his short essay, ‘Program
Proposal for Tuberculosis Control in India in 1995’.
Giving up his medical practice overnight, he joined a multinational
pharma giant for the next six years. As their education director,
he has trained numerous medical postgraduates in diabetes with
extraordinary results.
Giving up medicine, for the last several years, he has engaged
himself in political and literary writing. This book on the
comparative study of the leftist–socialist, centrist and
particularly the right-wing politics in India is an altogether
different interpretation compared to the conventional wisdom.
He is presently working on his novel based on his experiences as a
medical practitioner.
Whatever the future, given the RSS’ multi-layered history, this was
a story waiting to be told. Mr Kelkar’s intention may be to analyse
the history of the RSS as a believer as well as an opponent. But
objectivism is easier said than achieved. In Mr Kelkar’s case, the
opponent’s viewpoint resembles that of a mother, bitterly
disappointed in her child but unrelenting in her support and
affection nonetheless. So expect a historical account of a
"misunderstood" organization and a loyalist’s take on the way
forward.
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