Preface;
Introduction;
1. Why Was the RSS Set Up?
2. The RSSS 19-century Heritage;
3. Commitments of Indian Nationalism;
4,.Collaboration with the British;
5. The RSS Woos Europe's Fascists;
6. Savarkar Captures the Mahasabha;
7. The RSS Acquires a Bible;
8. The RSS at Independence;
9. The RSS and Gandhis Assassination;
10, The Ban on the RSS;
11. Golwalkar and Mookerjee's Pact on the Jana Sangh;
12. Mookerjee, RSS and Jana Sangh;
13. The RSS After Mookerjee;
14. The R$S, the Emergency and the Janata Party;
15. The BJP's Birth and the RSS's Problem;
16. Power in the Name of Ram;
17. How Modi Profited by a Pogrom;
18. The Advani Episode;
19. The RSS in Triumph;
20. RSS Selects Indias Prime Minister;
21. RSS Raj Under Modi;
22. Endgame in 2018;
23. RSS & Violence;
24. RSS'S Progeny: ABVP, VHP & Bajrang Dal;
25. RSS'S Self-Revelation to Tax and Charity Authorities;
Bibliograpiy;
Appendices:
Appendix 1. RSS Prayer and Oath;
Appendix 2. Constitution of the RSS;
Appendix 3. RSS Declared Unlawful;
Appendix 4. Golwalkar's Interaction With Home Minister Sardar Patel Apy;
Appendix 5. Justice On Trial;
Appendix 6. Gurujl-Indiraji Correspondence';
Appendix 7. Deorass Correspondence during the Emergency with Indira Gandhi, S.B. Chavan and Vinoba Bhave;
Appendix 8. In the Court of the District Judge, Nagpur;
Appendix 9. Limaye for consensus on RSS, other affiliates;
Appendix 10. 'All responsible for Janata crisis" ;
Appendix 11. 'Modern Hate;
Appendix 12. "The Sangh is my soul';
Appendix 13. A Four-point Appeal to Muslims of Lndia';
Appendix 14. Nanavan or ti or not, the state apparatus in Gujarat cannot be absolved;
Appendix 15. Interview with BJP leader Narendra Modi;
Appendix 16. Chaining 1,200 Years;
Index of Names of People and Organisations.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is the most powerful organisation in India today; complete with a private army of its own, unquestionably obeying its leader who functions on fascist lines on the Fuehrer principle. Two of its pracharaks (active preachers) have gone on to become prime ministers of India. In 1951 it set up a political front, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which merged into the Janata Party in 1977 only to walk out of it in 1980. In issue was its superior loyalty to its parent and mentor, the RSS; not the Janata Party. Within months of its defection, the Jana Sangh reemerged; not with the name under which it had functioned for nearly three decades, but as the Bharatiya Janata Party, deceptively to claim a respectable lineage.
The RSS is at war with India’s past. It belittles three of the greatest builders of the Indian State – Ashoka, the Buddhist; Akbar, the Muslim; and Nehru, a civilised Enlightened Hindu. It would wipe out centuries of achievement for which the world has acclaimed India and replace that with its own narrow, divisive ideology.
This book is a magisterial study of the RSS, from its formation in 1925 to the present day. With scrupulous and voluminous evidence, one of India’s leading constitutional experts and political analysts, A.G. Noorani, builds a watertight case to show how the RSS is much more than a threat to communal amity. It poses a wider challenge. It is a threat to democratic governance and, even worse, a menace to India. It threatens the very soul of India.
And yet, despite its reach and seemingly overwhelming political influence, the author shows that the RSS can be defeated. The soul of India can be rescued.