Eventually in April 1926, the outfit had a name—the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or RSS***, and a little later, a saffron-coloured flag called the bhagwa dhwaj was chosen as one of the first symbols of Hindu hegemony. But it would take a good two-and-a-half decades before the RSS would adopt a constitution and only after the government had made it a precondition to lift the ban which was imposed on it in the aftermath of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination
