NEW DELHI, April 17 -- Ever since the BJP came to power in 2014 under the leadership of Narendra Modi, efforts to convert India into a Hindu Rashtra have been intensified. The centenary of the foundation of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 2025 is going to be a landmark in the process of transforming India in accordance with the Hindutva ideology of the Sangh Parivar. The large-scale cuts made in school textbooks recently by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) have to be viewed from this perspective.

The Sangh Parivar has adopted a multi-pronged strategy to realize its dream of making India a Hindu Rashtra, totally different from the vision of India as delineated in the preamble of the Indian Constituti...