[An edited version of this paper was published under the title The RSS Educationist as Mahabharata Charioteer in the volume Education and Democracy in India, New Delhi, 2003]
Teaching is central to the whole Hindu nationalist enterprise. At its core, the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, lit. ‘National Volunteers Organization’) itself, with its own shikshaks and bauddhiks (teachers, intellectual sessions) in neighborhood shakhas (branches) defines its noiseless but assiduous method as a (...)