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THE ORIGIN STORY

This well-researched book carries a remarkably apposite title. With its multiple cohorts and its uninterrupted indoctrination cum social work, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has, over almost a hundred years, come to form something like the “deep nation” for numerous Hindus.

Narayanan also captures the shifting RSS-BJP relationship: largely through the parallel but interconnected lives of Narendra Modi and Mohan Bhagwat. He also explores several adjacent political

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