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  1. Sastri, The Future of the Brahmin, p. 4.

  2. Pradip Kumar Datta, "'Dying Hindus': Production of Hindu Communal
    Common Sense in Early 20th Century Bengal," Economic and Political Weekly 28, no.
    25 (19 June 1993), pp. 1315,1310.

  3. See "The Esoteric of Strength: Sex-Sublimation," in Anthony Elenjimittam,
    Philosophy and Action of the R.S.S.for the Hind Swaraj (Bombay: Laxmi Publications,
    1951), p. 92.

  4. See T.C.A. Raghavan, "Origins and Development of Hindu Mahasabha
    Ideology: The Call of V D Savarkar and Bhai Parmanand," Economic and Political
    Weekly 18, no. 15 (9 April 1983), pp. 595-600.

  5. "Glimpses of a Great Life," Organiser, 2 April 1962, p. 10.

  6. Presidential address delivered by V. D. Savarkar at the Hindu Mahasabha's
    21st session, held at Calcutta in 1939. Savarkar, Hindu Rashtra Darshan, p. 114.

  7. Ibid.

  8. See M. S. Golwalkar, Justice on Trial: A Collection of the Historic Letters between
    Sri Guruji and the Government (1948-49) (Bangalore: Prakashan Vibhag, 1969),
    p. 71.

  9. When Will Atrocities on Harijans Stop? A.B. Vajpayee's Speech in Rajya Sabha
    on August 4,1988 (New Delhi: BJP, n.d.), pp. 5,9.

  10. J.A. Curran Jr., Militant Hinduism in Indian Politics: A Study of the R.S.S.,
    mimeograph (New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1951), p. 81.

  11. Dina Nath Mishra, RSS: Myth and Reality (New Delhi: Vikas, 1980), p. 137.

  12. Sumanta Banerjee, "'Hindutva'-Ideology and Social Psychology," Economic
    and Political Weekly 26, no. 3 (19 January 1991), p. 97.

  13. "Objectionable in the Extreme" (editorial), Organiser, 15 April 1963, p. 3.

  14. Debajyoti Burman, "Hindu Rashtra," Organiser, 15 November 1963, p. 31.

  15. Golwalkar, Justice on Trial, pp. 72-73.

  16. M.S. Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts (Bangalore: Vikrama Prakashan, 1966),
    pp. 152-53.

  17. Ibid., p. 93.

  18. Ibid., p. 92.

  19. Ibid., p. 397.

  20. "'Angry Hindu!'—Yes; Why Not?" Organiser, 14 February 1988, p. 9.

  21. William Stephens Taylor, "Basic Personality in Orthodox Hindu Culture
    Patterns," Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 43, no. 1 (January 1948), p. 9.

  22. P. Spratt, Hindu Culture and Personality: A Psycho-Analytic Study (Bombay:
    Manaktalas, 1966), pp. 352-55.

  23. Ashis Nandy et al., Creating a Nationality: The Ramjanmabhumi Movement
    and Fear of the Self (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. xi.

  24. B.RR. Vithal, "Roots of Hindu Fundamentalism," Economic and Political
    Weekly 28, nos. 8-9 (20-27 February 1993), p. 337.

  25. M. J. Akbar, India: The Siege Within, Challenges to a Nation's Unity (Harmonds-
    worth, England: Penguin Books, 1985), pp. 26-31.

  26. See Prem Singh, "VHP: Origin and Metamorphosis," Link, 3 January 1993,
    pp. 10-12.

  27. Shivram S. Apte, secretary of the VHP, explained this in his article "Why
    Vishva Hindu Parishad," Organiser, 2 November 1964, pp. 15-16.

  28. Savarkar, Hindu Rashtra Darshan, p. 87.

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