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In post-independent India the ideology of Hindu nationalism (and Hindutva predominantly) has come to be identified with the ideas and acts of organizations like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS); Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP); Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which now is known as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP); Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram (VKA) and so on. Of these RSS is the mother organization because the rest of the organizations mentioned above have been the brainwork of the former and derive their ideological oxygen from the same. There are around 65 small and big organizations currently linked to the RSS, working in different fields of national life ranging from school education to higher education, community service to trade union, tribal welfare to consumer protection and so on. Taken together, they constitute the popular phrase Sangh Parivar (Sangh family).1
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Ragi, S.K. (2010). Nationalism and the Market Economy — Challenges to Hindu Nationalism in India. In: Guelke, A. (eds) The Challenges of Ethno-Nationalism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230282131_6
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