RSS Criticism of Minority appeasement and anti-Hindu bias
RSS Criticism of Minority appeasement and anti-Hindu bias A core charge is that Nehruvian secularism is not neutral: it privileges minorities (Muslims and Christians in particular) through separate personal laws, institutional autonomy, targeted benefits, and political “vote-bank” considerations, while treating Hindu society as the default from which concessions are extracted or as the one community open to reform and criticism. Historically, RSS organs and leaders (including M.S. Golwalkar in Bunch of Thoughts) rejected the idea of a purely secular state in favour of a Hindu cultural nation in which minorities should assimilate or accept a subordinate position without special claims. Early Organiser editorials dismissed the secular Constitution and national symbols as insufficiently rooted in Hindu tradition. Nandakumar’s book Hindutva in the Changing Times calls for complete rejection of Nehruvian secularism because it fosters a false sense of unity, keeps Hindus divided and con...