Total eleven letter written by RSS in the six months of the Emergency (1975–1977)

A total eleven letters had been written in the six months. These letters sought to dispel what he called misconceptions about the RSS, deny allegations of anti-national or communal activities, defend the organization's character, and appeal for the ban to be lifted so RSS workers could contribute to nation-building. 

Balasaheb Deoras, the third Sarsanghchalak of the RSS, wrote at least two notable letters to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from Yerawada Central Jail in Pune. He also wrote to Maharashtra CM S.B. Chavan and Vinoba Bhave and requested Bhave to intercede with Indira Gandhi for lifting the ban and freeing volunteers to join “planned programme of action” under her leadership.

1. Advocate V.N. Bhide’s letter to Chief Minister, S.B. Chavan, Maharashtra from Yerwada Jail, dt. 15 July 1975.

2. Deoras’s letter to Indira Gandhi from Yerwada Jail, dt. 22 August 1975.

3. Deoras’s second letter to Indira Gandhi, dt. 10 November 1975.

4. RSS’s Chief Organiser’s letter to Chavan, dt. 24 November 1975.

5. Deoras’s letter to Chavan, dt. 22 December 1975.

6. Bhide’s letter to Chavan, dt. 22 December 1975.

7. Bhide’s letter to Chavan, dt. 12 July 1976.

8. Deoras’s letter to Indira Gandhi, dt. 16 July 1976

9. Deoras’s two letters to Vinoba Bhave, dt. 12 January 1976

10. Deoras’s second letter to Bhave (undated).

These letters remain a point of historical debate and political contention in discussions of the Emergency. They were later tabled in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly and have been reproduced or excerpted in books like Deoras's own Hindu Sangathan aur Sattavadi Rajneeti (with appendices) and Brahm Dutt's Five Headed Monster. For primary sources, archival records from the Maharashtra Assembly or those books would be the most authoritative.