I Could Not Be Hindu

The Story of a Dalit in the RSS

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Bhanwar Meghwanshi: I Could Not Be Hindu (2019, Navayana publications)

hardcover, 240 pages

Published Nov. 30, 2019 by Navayana publications.

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978-81-89059-93-4
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The true story of how RSS manipulates Dalits and Backward Castes

5 stars

An inside look at the fascist organisation, the RSS’ insidious agenda and intricate working. The organisation is exposed in this book as one with not only a genocidal, but a casteist working mechanism. To readers of political ideology and political sciences in India, this may not be a new phenomenon. However, the authors narrative style lens credibility to something that has often been repeated in press, and in publication about the RSS.- that it capitalises on the discontent of the dispirited Indian Hindus by brainwashing them with a fascist ideology.

The author lives a life which is diverse in its experience, ranging from working as an RSS member to a social activist with interest in publication against the RSS. However, his caste follows him and it is appalling to see how obstructive it can really be to affecting any real social change as a citizen of India.

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An extraordinary memoir of a man who grew up as a RSS member, later moved away from RSS because of their betrayal and hypocrisy and working towards social unity and started exposing the RSS hypocrisy towards Dalits, Adivasis, and OBCs.

The book is full of exploitation by Brahmin-Bania castes in the name of Hindu unity and how the oppressed are merely used for carrying out attacks on Muslims and perform violence against poor people.

The pertinent learning point - any institution or group modeled after the Hindu or Sanatana dharma is nothing but a hog-wash name for caste hierarchy. the entire structure of RSS and BJP political party is structured after caste-system with a single point of projecting outsiders (Muslim) as enemies. Hindu nationalism is nothing but caste nationalism to win elections and keep control over the society

One has to give it to Bhanwar's courage, grit, passion to fight …