The Brotherhood In Saffron Quotes

“In the early 1930s, the RSS began to spread beyond its Marathi-speaking base in the Central Provinces. Bhai Parmanand, a leader of the Arya Samaj in Punjab, invited Hedgewar to Karachi in mid-1931 to attend the All-India Young Men’s Hindu Association session. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Hedgewar started RSS work in Sind, and soon after launched the RSS in Punjab and the United Provinces.69”
― Walter K. Andersen, The Brotherhood in Saffron: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Hindu Revivalism

“He defines a Hindu as a person who feels united by blood ties with all those whose ancestry can be traced to Hindu ‘antiquity’, and who accepts India—from the Indus river in the north to the Indian Ocean—as his fatherland (pitrubhu). In addition, a person is a Hindu only if he accepts India as a divine or holy land (punyabhu).”
― Walter K. Andersen, The Brotherhood in Saffron: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Hindu Revivalism

“The RSS emerged during a wave of Hindu-Muslim riots that swept across India in the early 1920s. Its founder viewed the communal rioting as a symptom of the weakness and divisions within the Hindu community”
― Walter K. Andersen, The Brotherhood in Saffron: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Hindu Revivalism

“The unprecedented growth of the RSS and its affiliates in the 1980s may be related to the upsurge of militancy among Hindus following the much-publicized conversion to Islam in 1981 of sane low-caste Hindus in the village of Meenakshipuram in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.”
― Walter K. Andersen, The Brotherhood in Saffron: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Hindu Revivalism

“The nation has a ‘sacred’ geography, encompassing an impressive amount of real estate. Golwalkar spoke of it as extending from Iran in the west to the Malay Peninsula in the east, from Tibet in the north to Sri Lanka in the south.31 One cannot escape the conclusion that many in the RSS consider the whole area an integral part of Bharat Mata (Mother India) which should be brought together into some kind of a political relationship.”
― Walter K. Anderson, The Brotherhood in Saffron: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Hindu Revivalism

“In his typically frank manner, Savarkar publicly stated, ‘The epitaph for the RSS volunteer will be that he was born, he joined the RSS and he died without accomplishing I anything.’63”
― Walter K. Anderson, The Brotherhood in Saffron: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Hindu Revivalism