creation of a Hindu culture propagating the concept of acceptance of a shared Hindu heritage. Golwalkar always believed that casteism "served a great purpose in critical times". He called Manu "the first, greatest and the wisest lawgiver of mankind". According to Ramachandra Guha's book Makers of Modern India, Golwalkar saw Muslims, Christians and communists as the biggest threats to the creation of a Hindu state. Golwalkar has been criticized for similarities in ideas with those of the Nazis. For instance, Golwalkar's book We, or Our Nationhood Defined, published in 1939, includes the following quote: However, Golwalkar cooperated with the British in World War II in their war against Hitler and Nazism and the Axis Powers, and was supportive of the Jews, showing admiration and sympathy for them. He was firmly supportive of the formation of Israel. Golwalkar believed that people following Semitic faiths (Muslims and Christians) must be prevented from being Indians. They could live only at the sufferance of the majority Hindu community.The non-Hindu peoples in Hindusthan must either adopt the Hindu culture and language, must learn to respect and hold in reverence Hindu religion, must entertain no idea but those of glorification of the Hindu race and culture — in one word they must cease to be foreigners, or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, far less preferential treatment—not even citizen's rights. Legacy The Central Government's motion to rename the second campus of Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology after Golwalkar led to controversy in Kerala. Shashi Tharoor, in a series of tweets, asked whether the centre should "memorialize a bigoted Hitler-admirer who in a 1966 speech to VHP asserted the supremacy of religion over science". Communist Party of India (Marxist) opposed this move and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has sent a letter to Centre requesting it to reconsider its decision to name the second campus of Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), coming up in Thiruvananthapuram, after M. S. Golwalkar. See also Indigenous Aryans Vinayak Damodar Savarkar References Citations Sources External links golwalkarguruji.org 1906 births 1973 deaths People from Nagpur district Marathi people Sarsanghchalaks Hindu revivalist writers Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharaks Indigenous Aryanists Banaras Hindu University alumni