India: The lifting in 1949 of the ban on the RSS - the exchange between Vidya Subrahmaniam and S. Gurumurthy

The Hindu, October 16, 2013

Debate @ The Hindu

Lifting of ban on RSS was unconditional

S. Gurumurthy

In her article in The Hindu "The Forgotten Promise of 1949,”, Vidya Subrahmaniam asserts that Sardar Patel lifted the ban on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1949, because it had promised to be non-political, but it reneged on it in 2013. But publicly known facts recalled here contradict her assertion. [. . .].
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Vidya Subrahmaniam responds:

Written constitution was indeed a pre-condition


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India: RSS Declared Unlawful - Text of Government communique dated February 4, 1948
http://www.sacw.net/article1673.html


How the Ban on the RSS Was Lifted
by Rakesh Ankit
(Mainstream, Vol - XLVII No. 16, April 21, 2012)
http://www.epw.in/special-articles/how-ban-rss-was-lifted.html