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Review of 'I Could Not Be Hindu The Story of a Dalit in the RSS' on 'GoodReads'

5 stars

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 for Dalits, unity of oppressed people, and be the loyal and uncompromising fight for the cause of humanity, equality, and justice even when the lethal attacks were carried out by the RSS, Rajasthan state bureaucrats and elected members and ministers.