Word: swayamsevak
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...Hindu fundamentalists have gone on violent frenzies in the past year, assaulting missionaries and heckling couples in Kanpur on Valentine's Day--a Western invention, they asserted, that should not be observed in India. Many of the toughs were enlisted by youth and student groups affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu revivalist organization that is the parent to India's ruling right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party...
...Communists, numerically weak and partially outlawed, are now promoting underground terror and sabotage, agitating even in the jails where Nehru and his Congress comrades once languished. On the far right loom the Hindu chauvinists, the Hindu Mahasabha. Beside them, noisier, more militant and dangerous, are the R.S.S. (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-literally, Organization for Service of the Nation). They spawned Gandhi's assassin; they could still undo the communal peace so painfully...