In the winter months of 1934, two RSS Officers Training Camps were taking place simultaneously. The first was in Nagpur, where Martand Jog was in charge, and the second, where approximately 1500 swayamsevaks had gathered, was in Wardha and was led by Appa Joshi. The grounds of the camp belonged to Jamnalal Bajaj, who, at the beginning of 1934, had gone to see Hedgewar with a series of questions about what the Sangh stood for and to ascertain what type of movement the RSS would be in a new India. He had known Hedgewar personally, having worked together in 1916 for the Congress. Bajaj was trying to understand who was behind the RSS; was it just a muscular expression of the Hindu Mahasabha, which had broken away from the Congress? Hedgewar, as had become his way, was fairly candid and told him the RSS way and why he could not align fully with the Congress or the Mahasabha. Bajaj was dissatisfied with the answers. Both men were of the same age, and though at different ends of the spectrum socio-economically, and in world views, they both nevertheless respected each other. Bajaj’s actions indicate as much in so far as he...