The map kept by RSS members in their homes & offices | By special arrangement In his 2016 book Akhand Bharat - Sankriti Ne Joda Rajniti Ne Toda, Devendra Swarup, an RSS ideologue and Right-wing historian, had drawn a chronology of what was described as the systematic geopolitical divisions of Bharat. RSS literature is replete with the idea of ‘Akhand Bharat’. However, the timeline given by the RSS chief has left many in the Sangh baffled.Īlso Read: Day after Dhami govt forms panel, RSS says uniform civil code needs ‘absolute consensus’Ī map of ‘Akhand Bharat’ that members of the Sangh are known to keep in their homes and offices shows the entity as comprising Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, and Aksai Chin. “For years together, before the British captured and then divided the entire landmass here, we as a people were one, connected culturally with each other as we all shared the same view of life based on spirituality,” Vaidya added. The idea of ‘Akhand Bharat’ is not geopolitical but geo-cultural, RSS sah sarkaryawah (joint general secretary) Manmohan Vaidya said.
While Savarkar’s idea was geopolitical, RSS functionaries say Bhagwat meant a “cultural integration leading to a confederation of neighbouring countries under the leadership of India”. Savarkar, then president of the Hindu Mahasabha, told the session that to him, “ Akhand Bharat” or “united” or “indivisible” India was from “Kashmir to Rameswaram, from Sindh (in present-day Pakistan) to Assam”. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar explained his idea of the notion at the 19th annual session of the Hindu Mahasabha held in Ahmedabad in 1937.
His speech drew a political backlash, and, since then, RSS functionaries have been at pains to explain that the sarsanghchalak was speaking in the cultural, not geopolitical, context.
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