RSS founder Savarkar defined Hindu identity as seeing India as holy land

Evidence

Modi’s quest to realize Bharat is rooted in a cultural movement that many Indians, including Hindus like Mrinal, have analogized to Nazism. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is the ideological engine for Modi and the BJP party. Its founder, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, published the cornerstone text for the RSS movement, titled Hindutva: Who Is a Hindu?. In that seminal text of Hindu supremacy, Savarkar wrote, “To be a Hindu means a person who sees this land, from the Indus River to the sea, as his country but also his Holy Land.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 399

Categorization

• DEFINE: The precise Savarkar definition of Hindutva from the movement’s cornerstone text.
• XREF: connects to: Savarkar defined Indianness as sacred land of our gods to exclude universal patriots — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1240