Presenting the Past Anxious History and Ancient Future in Hindutva India

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  1. Savarkar's presidential address at the 21st Hindu Mahasabha session at
    Calcutta in 1939. Ibid., pp. 87,89.

  2. Indra Prakash, Hindu Mahasabha: Its Contribution to India's Politics (New
    Delhi: Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, 1966), pp. v-vi.

  3. Ibid., pp. 23, 30-33.

  4. Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, Bharatiya Jana Sangh: Ninth Annual Session
    Lucknow December 30 and 31, 1960 and January 1, 1961, Annual Report (n.p.: n.p.,
    n.d.), pp. 1-3.

  5. B.D. Graham, Hindu Nationalism and Indian Politics: The Origins and Devel-
    opment of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990),
    p. 253.

  6. Election Manifesto of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (New Delhi: Akhil Bharat
    Hindu Mahasabha, 1966), pp. 20-21, 2.

  7. Upadhyaya, Bharatiya Jana Sangh, pp. 4-5.

  8. Election Manifesto, p. .15.

  9. Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Election Manifesto 1967 (Delhi: n.p., n.d.), pp. 7,9.

  10. Election Manifesto, pp. 5, 9.

  11. Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Election Manifesto 1967, pp. 3^.

  12. Election Manifesto, pp. 16-17.

  13. "The Moving Finger Writes," Organiser, 26 May 1968, p. 8.

  14. V.D. Savarkar, Historic Statements (Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1967),
    pp. 1-2.

  15. Manohar Malgonkar, The Men Who Killed Gandhi (Delhi: Macmillan, 1978),
    p. 35.

  16. H.V. Seshadri, RSS: A Vision in Action (Bangalore: Jagarana Prakashana,
    1988), pp. 4-6.

  17. This is part of the after-independence RSS pledge. See K. R. Malkani, The
    RSS Story (New Delhi: Inpex India, 1980), p. 200.

  18. Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, p. 61.

  19. Ibid., p. 96.

  20. Govind Sahai, R.S.S.: Ideology, Technique, and Propaganda (New Delhi: n.p.,
    1956), pp. 8,17, 64.

  21. Gerard Heuze, "Shive Sena and 'National Hinduism/" Economic and Politi-
    cal Weekly 27, no. 40 (3 October 1992), pp. 2189-95.

  22. "Calicut" (editorial), Organiser, 7 January 1968, p. 3.

  23. Lai K. Advani, A Prisoner's Scrap-Book (New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann,
    1978), pp. 178-79.

  24. Narendra Sharma, "BJP's New Look," in The Only Alternative, ed. L.K.
    Advani (New Delhi: n.p., n.d.), pp. 7-9.

  25. Ibid., p. 10.

  26. Ibid., pp. 4,11,17.

  27. A.G. Noorani, "BJP: Child of RSS and Heir to Hindu Mahasabha," Main-
    stream, 27 July 1991, pp. 16-19.

  28. "The Disgruntled Generals," Illustrated Weekly of India, 7-13 March 1992.

  29. Seshadri, RSS: A Vision in Action, p. 315.

  30. S.P. Udayakumar, "Historicizing Myth and Mythologizing History: The
    Violent 'Ram Temple' Drama," in Handcuffed to History: Narratives, Pathologies, and
    Violence in South Asia, ed. S.P. Udayakumar (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001).

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