As RSS has completed a hundred years of existence, there will surely be multiple analyses of the organisation and its achievements. In view of its sudden ascendancy in the last decade, the RSS is bound to appear larger-than-life to both its opponents and supporters. Therefore, it will be meaningful to note two key achievements that may impact India’s public life in the decades to come.
One suspects that the RSS itself may not exactly boast publicly about these achievements because, for the last hundred years, it has remained taciturn about its actual goalposts and achievements. Nevertheless, it will surely intensify efforts to consolidate these gains. Therefore, students and observers of Indian society need to note these achievements and discuss their effects.
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