Rashtriya Sikh Sangat

From SikhiWiki
Revision as of 16:50, 20 October 2017 by Voyager (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigationJump to search

The Rashtriya Sikh Sangat is an arm of the right-wing Hindu-nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in India. It is perceived as one among the several subsidiaries of RSS that operate in the state of Punjab to further the anti-Sikh propaganda of the RSS.

A 2002 claim by RSS that "Sikhs are Hindus" led to an outcry among Sikhs. In 2004 the leader of the Akal Takht, the highest Sikh political institution, declared the Rashtriya Sikh Sangat as "Anti-Sikh", and forbade all Sikhs from having any association with it.

References

Anantanand Rambachan, The Co-existence of Violence and Non-Violence in Hinduism, The Ecumenical Review |volume=55 |page=2003 http://www.wou.edu/~khes/geog451/hindu_violence.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20080226232713/http://www.wou.edu/~khes/geog451/hindu_violence.pdf

See also