‘From his youth, he had searched for a reason to explain India’s inability to ward off foreign domination,’30 argue Walter K. Andersen and Shridhar Damle in their book, The Brotherhood in Saffron, but he had obviously found no answers. After what seemed like a lifetime of a struggle involving quasi-philosophical and religio-cultural debates, stretches of apprenticeships under various leaders, and home-grown revolutionary movements, K.B. Hedgewar finally seemed to have identified the reason: a psychological and inherent weakness amongst Hindus which could only be overcome by creating a common
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