https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10234111277108594&id=1387786704&rdid=nAruL9TQ3nuPZ14f enabling the Right to peddle its consistent campaign against humane rationalist-modernist ideas from under the deceptive banner of "decolonisation of the mind" as something radical and very much worth an embrace.
In India, with its strict and oppressive caste hierarchy, the common people or -- Shudras and Ati-Shudras -- just could have not any whatever say in running of the state. That Idea would have been stupendously sacrilegious. The RSS publicly proclaims Manu as the greatest lawgiver.
In the 1857 rebellion, the principal actors called themselves "Baagi" -- rebels. Quite approptely. The term "Azadi" nowhere figured in their lexicon. .. Savarkar, half a century after the event, was the first to reinvent and retell the story (anonymously) as the "War of Independence" -- being inspired by Mazzini and Garibaldi of Italy.
In the atmosphere then prevailing it was received like a hot cake, by all those aspiring for freedom.
"Secularism is not a Bhartiya concept, it is an European concept, let it be there, let them be happy with it. How can India be away from Dharma? " TN governor said at a convocation of Hindu Dharma Vidya Peetham at Thiruvattar in Kanyakumari. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/tamil-nadu-governor-r-n-ravi-says-secularism-european-concept-not-needed-in-india/ articleshow/113604679.cms