Ambedkar, Sangh and constitutionalism

On February 25, 2010, author Ramachandra Guha wrote a column in an English daily on how the Indian state must reconcile with Maoist terror. Mr Guha opened that column with a piece of history to assert that the ban on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1948 was lifted only after the Sangh accepted in writing to abide by the Constitution of India. Mr Guha’s clever assertion draws a dubious parallel between Maoist terror and the RSS and has been taken at face value by many. An extensive chronicle in a well-regarded magazine that appeared earlier last week, however, sets the historical record straight on the sequence of events leading up to the lifting of the ban on the RSS.

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