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The Rashrtiya Swayamsevak Sangh and its affiliated groups - usually known as the "Sangh Parivar" - are the most powerful organisations in India today. But as what they stand for, and you will get two very different answers. Starting with the RSS’ own texts, and exploring its history and the relationship between its beliefs and Indian politics, the book tries to answer two key questions: what does RSS and its affiliated groups actually stand for, ...
Throughout large parts of rural India, among a large part of our adult population, employment and work means leaving their homes: forever, for years, or seasonally every year. For many adivasis and Dalits in particular, migration has long been a central livelihood strategy. While no one, including the government, has any figures for overall migration, estimates say that around one to there crore people engage in seasonal migration alone every year.Yet, despite ...