RSS, School Texts and the Murder of Mahatma Gandhi
The Hindu Communal Project
- Aditya Mukherjee - Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
- Mridula Mukherjee - Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
- Sucheta Mahajan - Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Social and Cultural History (General)
The book, which brings out the basic ideological underpinnings of the Hindu Communal Project, is divided into three parts. Part I discusses how this ideology is propagated among young impressionable minds through school textbooks. Part II studies the role of the Sangh combine in the murder of Mahatma Gandhi and Part III analyses the basic elements of the Hindu communal ideology, as propounded by some of its founders like Savarkar and Golwalkar.
The book brings home to us in a dramatic manner the great threat communalism poses to our society, thus making it a must-read for the general educated reader, including politicians, political workers, social activists and journalists.
This book…is a worthwhile read as a sort of potted history of Hindutva-inspired hatred and to remind those who may want a refresher course in the context of recent happenings.
In just under 100 pages, the three historians from Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University have succeeded in highlighting the fact that communalism continues to be a threat in present day India…the authors argue and suggest that it is time that we capitalise on the presence of secular forces within the country.