An anti-RSS attitude is essentially a part of the Nehruvian socio-political doctrine ... The minorities have ... made to believe that they are in danger of losing their religious identity due to, if not Hindu fascism, the hegemonic attitude of the majority community. The Muslims were demoralised as the growth of the RSS was projected as an Indian version of the Nazi ideology.

The RSS was formed with the ideology of regeneration of the Hindu nation. The term Hindu, in the RSS vocabulary, has been used in the nationalist perspective as it gives cultural identity to the land and the people. It is not meant either to create a theocratic state or establish the domination of the majority community over the minority ... The ideology of the RSS has been that India is one nation and its base is not political but cultural. The presence of various faiths or languages does not make a nation multinational. ..

The term Indianisation of minorities ... is misunderstood as something like the melting pot experience as it seemingly questions the loyalty of the minorities. Golwalkar had used the concept of assimilation, according to which, an individual enjoys full freedom to his Vyakti Dharma (personal faith) and Kula Dharma (duty to ancestors but he or she to be part of a collective national ... society. Diversities in the path of devotion, said Golwalkar, does not mean division in society. This is the most positive way to create a national identity which is also described as the mainstream culture ....        (Source: The Hindustan Times, 27 January, 1998)