This book is a critical study of six selected Hindu nationalists of modern India- Swami Dayananda Saraswati (1824-1883), Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856-1920), Vinayak Damodar Sacarkar (1883-1966), Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar (1906-1973) and Sita ram Goel (1921-2003) in – in order to trace the intellectual genealogy of Hindu Cultural nationalism and fundamentalism. Behind each of these there is a dark and hidden history of religious ...
