The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a Hindu nationalist volunteer organization.
It is also the parent of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
Prime Minister Modi was himself a career RSS office-holder, or pracharak.
This book explores how the RSS and its affiliates have benefitted from India's economic development and concurrent social dislocation, with rapid modernization creating a sense of rootlessness, disrupting traditional hierarchies, and attracting many upwardly mobile groups t.
Hurst & Co. Messengers of hindu nationalism: how the rss reshaped india, hardcover/walter andersen
