The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh established the Samajik Samrasta Manch in 1983 in an open effort to reach out to the subaltern caste groups. Social justice parties that mobilised subaltern social groups grew stronger around the same time the RSS started this effort. Whenever the slogan of Hindu unity got the upper hand, the BJP won; whenever the justice question came …
The phrase ‘subaltern Hindutva’ was bandied about quite a lot in academic and journalistic circles during the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly election. Many journalists and scholars covering stories from the field had a common account, that a large section of rural poor, backward classes, Dalits and Adivasis had firmly shifted towards the Bharatiya Janata Party under the influence of …
