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Germany, if necessary by force. He also suggested that Muslims and
Hindus could not form one nation and that “minorities had always to
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submit to the majority view”. Indian author Arundhati Roy describes
the fascist nationalism of “Sangh Parivar” (united family) as follows:
“While the parallels between contemporary India and prewar Germany are chill-
ing, they’re not surprising. (The founders of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
[RSS], the National Volunteer Force that is the moral and cultural guild of the
BJP, have in their writings, been frank in their admiration for Hitler and his meth-
ods.) One difference is that here in India we don’t have a Hitler. We have instead
the hydra-headed, many-armed Sangh Parivar — the «joint family» of Hindu po-
litical and cultural organizations, with the BJP, the RSS, the VHP and the

The funeral
in Delhi on
31 January,
1948, of
Mohandas
Gandi, who
was killed
by Hindu
extremists.

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