01210nam a22001697a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200190007610000190009524500430011426000690015730000300022636500070025650504430026352003150070670000190102120190718143531.0190718b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d a9788132105909 a320.540954 KEL aSanjeev Kelkar aLost years of the RSSc/Sanjeev Kelkar aNew Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. b: SAGE Publicationsc, 2011. axxxvi, 354 pagesc;20 cm. b00 aOriginal design of the RSS : an analysis -- Political ethnography of the RSS -- 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. a This is a historical analysis of the events that have shaped the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in its 85 years of existence. Written from an insider's perspective, this in-depth work critically analyses the major turning points in the history of RSS from the viewpoint of both a follower and an opponent. aSanjeev Kelkar