26 11 PROBE WHY JUDICIARY ALSO FAILED

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In 1987, as the Ram Janmabhoomi movement gathers momentum, a thirteen-year-old from a village in Rajasthan joins the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Despite his untouchable status, he quickly rises to the post of karyavah. Ahead of the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992, he becomes the district office chief of Bhilwara.He hates Muslims with a passion without having met one. He joins thousands of karsevaks to Ayodhya, He mocks Mulla-Yam Singh. He participates in riots. He goes to jail. He finds Hindutva intoxicating. He is And yet he remains a lesser Hindu, He Ambedkarite and makes it his life’s mission ready to die for the Hindu Rashtra,turns into a critic of the Sangh, becomes an to expose the hypocrisies of Hindutva.In this explosive memoir, translated by Nivedita Menon from the Hindi, Bhanwar Meghwanshi tells us what it meant to be an untouchable in the RSS. And what it means to become Dalit,