India, Oct. 26 -- The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has not softened its core Hindu majoritarian thesis one whit in its hundred years of existence, and its current supremo, Mohan Bhagwat, made it clear in his centenary address on Vijayadashami, or Dussehra, that, in its view, Indian citizenship is cultural rather than juridical.

The Constitution, in this reading, is not a charter of rights that individuals, especially religious minorities, hold against the majority but the formal expression of a pre-existing civilisational unity that Hindu society alone can supply, a position Vinayak Damodar Savarkar said while offering Christians and Muslims second-class citizenship if they wanted to live in India.

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