TO hide and mask this shameful and anti-national betrayal of India’s anti-imperialist nationalism, the Sangh Parivar came up with the fancy of ‘cultural nationalism’. This cultural nationalism is nothing but communal fascism. They may try to deny this now – but Savarkar’s own words prove this better than anything:

  • Savarkar, addressing a students gathering in Kanpur, said: “What is called Nationalism can be defined as in fact the National communalism of the majority community which has been ruling and still aspires to rule this country. Thus, in Hindusthan it is the Hindus, professing Hindu religion and being in overwhelming majority, that constitute the National community and create and formulate the Nationalism of the Nation.” (quoted in A G Noorani, 'A National Hero?', Frontline, Oct. 23 - Nov. 05, 2004)

The RSS and Hindu Mahasabha Leaders Wanted India to Be Like Nazi Germany

Both Golwalkar and Savarkar wrote admiringly about Nazi Germany under Hitler, wanting India to be a Hindu-majoritarian fascist state where minorities would be oppressed – not a secular country that Bhagat Singh and Ambedkar sought to create. This is clear from the writings of the Sangh heroes:

  • “… the foreign races in Hindusthan must either adopt the Hindu culture and language, must learn to respect and hold in reverence Hindu religion, must entertain no idea but those of the glorification of the Hindu race and culture, i.e., of the Hindu nation and must lose their separate existence to merge in the Hindu race, or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu Nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, far less any preferential treatment not even citizen’s rights.”

- M. S. Golwalkar, We or Our Nationhood Defined, 1939, p. 47-48

  • “German race pride has now become the topic of the day. To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic Races - the Jews. …Germany has also shown how well-nigh impossible it is for Races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by”

- M. S. Golwalkar, We or Our Nationhood Defined, 1939, p. 35

  • “There is no reason to suppose that Hitler must be a human monster because he passes off as a Nazi...The very fact that Germany and Italy has so wonderfully recovered and grown so powerful as never before at the touch of Nazi or Fascist magical wand is enough to prove that those political ‘isms’ were the most congenial tonics their health demanded.”

- Savarkar in his Presidential address to the 22nd Session
of the Hindu Mahasabha at Madurai in 1940.

Even the RSS uniform and salute are copied from Hitler’s brigades, as well as, of course, their actions like the anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat, 2002. The new RSS brown pant uniform is also inspired by the brown uniforms of Hitler’s brigades.