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Besides—and this is the alarming bit— Golwalkar never budged an inch from any of these ideas in the three decades that he led the RSS. As a result, it never struck him to ponder over the basic flaws in his outlook. He subscribed, for instance, to the idea of India steeped in Advaita, but still demonised, in a very un-Advaita fashion, its Muslims and Christians. Again, the votary of Hindu nationalism, in his zeal to inculcate ‘character’ and ‘discipline’ in his flock, expended no energy in ameliorating the miserable conditions of the Hindu social order. Sharma’s study of Golwalkar’s worldview shows beyond a shadow of doubt that it is the very antithesis of what holds us Indians together.
