Devanura Mahadeva is a Sahitya Academy Awardee, writer, and a public intellectual whose book on RSS is selling rapidly in Kannada. The Kannada title “RSS – Aala Mattu Agala” is translated in English by the several reviewers of the book as ” RSS – Its Depth and Breath.” Though I have not read the book in Kannada, the English reviews give the excellent commentary on the book revealing its robust structure. Devanura Mahadeva is a literary giant and an engaged Ambedkarite whose style of writing engages readers.

Some insightful books are published in recent times whose reading is compulsory to understand India of today. Christophe Jaffrelot’s Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy sketches the history of democracy in India since India became a republic in 1950 and shows how India was never people’s democracy. Starting with Nehruvian Feudal democracy to the “Ethnic Democracy” via Electoral Authoritarianism. He concludes that India is now a de facto Hindu Rastra, if not de jure. This book is insightful as are the other books of Christophe Jaffrelot. All the lovers of India and democracy must read this book.

Josy Joseph’s The Silent Coup: A History of India’s Deep State reveals the “de-facto” Hindu Rashtra in working. In a systematic way, Josy Joseph demonstrates how the constitution, the rule of law, and fundamental rights are subverted. He shows how the entire system is rigged by the “Deep state” actors like security agencies, police, intelligence bureau, and other law enforcement agencies. The Deep State itself works not for the public on whose money it thrives but the Deep State works for the political master to further their agenda. The book hints at how Hindu Right wing Eco-system is supported by the Deep State. A must read history of India’s deep state.

The fourth important and essential read is Aakar Patel’s Price of the Modi Years. Patel is objective yet very sharp analyst of India under Modi. Patel audits Modi Years and demonstrated how he failed India on every count. His analysis is rigorous. What stands clearly in this book is the analysis of Modi as a man and how his style of decision making and a lack of national vision affects the Indians negatively. Every decision is an event or a show, nothing is thought through and carefully analysed before the important decisions are taken that affect the lives of millions in this country.

A careful reading of these four books is important to understand India today. Everything fits in the analytic structure that Devanura Mahadeva developed in his Kannada book on RSS.

Let us look at it.

The core agenda of RSS is to replace Ambedkar’s constitution that promises equality to all with the Manusmriti that supports and sustain the Brahmanical Social Hierarchy. The Brahminical Social Order is the Core of RSS -BJP. To sustain this social order, the entire eco-system of the RSS works.

Devanura Mahadeva then laid out the subsidiary agenda to further the core agenda of the RSS -BJP, its entire eco-system, and the deep state it created.

– Replace India’s federal structure by unitary structure

– disenfranchise the minorities and the oppressed

– Imposition of Brahmanical value system and replacing people’s cultures and languages with the Brahminical culture and languages

– Imposing Aryan Racial Supremacy on the lines of Nazi Germany.

To achieve these objectives, the RSS-BJP has initiated many policies. Some of the policies that fit into the subsidiary agenda are:

1. Imposition of GST (This potentially weakens India’s federal structure)

2. The Privatization of the national assets

3. CAA

4. Anti- Conversion Bill

One can go on adding a lot of anti-people policies of the RSS-BJP.

The conclusion is that the democracy in India is for a namesake. The entire nation is governed by the whims and fancies of a few people (read a few castes). What was built with committment and handwork of the great people, the democratic constitution and people’s republic, is dismantled. In other words, the very idea of India for all is subverted in favour of a handful of people representing their caste interest.

These four major books should be enough alarming for all Indians who are emotionally taken for a ride by the media sponsored by the Bania capitalism and sustained by the deep state.

Mahadeva’s appeal to dismantle the Grand scheme of RSS by creating solidarity based on love and unity of purpose is the only way forward towards people’s democracy, social justice, and more compassionate society.