{"product_id":"the-rss-nilanjan-mukhopadhyay-9789395767415","title":"The RSS: Icons of the Indian Right","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA COMPREHENSIVE PROFILING OF ALL THE MAJOR LEADERS OF THE INDIAN RIGHT-WING, NOW THE SINGLE BIGGEST FACTOR IN INDIAN POLITICS.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fog of mystery surrounds the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-or RSS-the largest cadre-based organisation in the world. Veteran journalist and author of the bestseller \u003cem\u003eNarendra Modi: The Man, the Times\u003c\/em\u003e, Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay lays bare its fascinating, unique and perhaps startling world. He also chronicles the personal and political journeys of the most important men (and a woman) of the Hindu right wing, digging up little-known but revealing facts about them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Hegdewar, the founder of the RSS and its first sarsanghchalak, Savarkar, Golwalkar, Balasaheb Deoras, Syama Prasad Mukherjee and Deendayal Upadhyaya to Vijaya Raje Scindia, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani, Ashok Singhal and Bal Thackeray, all the major leaders of the political right wing are reckoned with in this book. Through individual stories of the organisation's tallest leaders, a bigger picture emerges: in spite of a three-time ban on the RSS in a multicultural and secular India-and despite the RSS's insistence that it has no truck with electoral politics-the group is, and will continue to be, the hand that rocks the BJP's cradle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNilanjan Mukhopadhyay embarked on a career in journalism in the early 1980s and is best known for his reportage and analysis of the rise and growth of Hindu organisations, their politics and agitations. He was among the first journalists to track the emergence of the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid conflict from the late 1980s. He has followed, and written about, the political and electoral emergence of the BJP and its allies from that period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Demolition: India at the Crossroads\u003c\/em\u003e (1994), one of the first books on the Ayodhya discord and the rise of Hindutva. He is also the author of \u003cem\u003eNarendra Modi: The Man, the Times\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), \u003cem\u003eSikhs: The Untold Agony of 1984\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), \u003cem\u003eThe RSS: Icons of the Indian Right\u003c\/em\u003e (2019) and \u003cem\u003eThe Demolition and the Verdict: Ayodhya and the Project to Reconfigure India\u003c\/em\u003e (2021). He is a regular columnist in, and contributor to, several leading newspapers and web portals, and a well-known commentator and host on Indian television news and video channels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9395767413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789395767415\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Westland Non Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.02w x 1.12d","brand":"Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48153976176895,"sku":"9789395767415","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_61fbf9fb-4937-44ae-bb9f-44ddbf7e0daa.jpg?v=1770787056","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-rss-nilanjan-mukhopadhyay-9789395767415","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}