Few organizations in India inspire as much loyalty or provoke as much opposition as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). From its early days in the dusty shakha grounds of Nagpur to its role in shaping the country’s political and cultural direction today the RSS has been at the heart of India’s most charged battles over nationalism identity and politics. In its centenary year Shakha to Nation brings together the RSS’s most defining speeches – profound orations by Sarsanghchalaks K.B. Hedgewar M.S. Golwalkar M. S. Deoras Rajendra Singh K.S. Sudarshan Mohan Bhagwat to ideologues past and present – that reveal the organization’s ideological steel and its evolving vision for India.