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Post by Guest Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:59 am

Nehru’s fears have come true. Donald Eugene Smith wrote in his classic “India as a Secular State”: “Nehru once remarked that Hindu communalism was the Indian version of fascism, and, in the case of the RSS, it is not difficult to perceive certain similarities. The leading principle, the stress on militarism, the doctrine of racial-cultural superiority, ultra-nationalism infused with religious ideal- ism, the use of symbols of past greatness, the emphasis on national solidarity, the exclusion of religious or ethnic minorities from the nation-concept – all of these features of the RSS are highly reminiscent of fascist movements in Europe.”

http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl2701/stories/19930326052.htm

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Two things must be remembered. The Congress in Nehru's time was not practicing 'fake secularism' (like getting the Shah Bano judgement overturned by an act of parliament, or opening the locks to the temple in the disputed structure in Ayodhya--both of which Rajiv Gandhi did). Second, the RSS seems to have become proficient at wearing the mask of moderateness since the days of Nehru when their communalism was more vulgar and easily discerned (the Togadia type of communalism).

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