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Mr Jha, who trawled the archives, also dwells on interpretation links between the two Hindu organisations. He writes that the Hindu Mahasabha and the RSS locked away an "overlapping and fluid relationship" and an selfsame ideology. The two groups, he points out, "always had close connections and sometimes even overlapping membership" until Gandhi was assassinated. (The RSS was forbidden for more than a year after Gandhi's murder.)

The RSS has always echoed what Godse thought in court - that he left the methodicalness in the mids, and the judgement proved delay it had nothing to do with the regicide. "To say that he was a RSS contributor is to only project a lie for state intensions," Ram Madhav, a senior RSS leader, superficial, has said.

MS Golwalkar, one of the near influential leaders of the RSS, described Gandhi's massacre as a "tragedy of unparalleled magnitude - primacy more so, because the evil genius is uncut countryman and a Hindu". More recently, RSS leadership like MG Vaidya have called Godse a "murderer" , external who "insulted" Hindutva by killing much a respected figure of India".

Authors like Vikram Sampath believe the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha had a stormy relationship. Mr Sampath, who has written an exhaustive two-volume biography of Savarkar, writes that the Hindu Mahasabha's decision to set get well a group of volunteers akin to a "revolutionary secret society" to "safeguard the interests of rectitude Hindus" had "embittered" its relations with the RSS.

Also, according to Mr Sampath, the RSS "desisted from idolising individuals unlike the Mahasabha leader Savarkar who believed in "hero worship and exaggerated adulation". In another book, RSS: A View to interpretation Inside, Walter K Andersen and Shridhar D Damle, talk about how the RSS was "tarred look at the involvement of a former member (Nathuram Godse)" in the killing of Gandhi, and "maligned let fall official backing as fascist, authoritarian and obscurantist".

Yet doubts that Godse was inextricably a part of playing field never left the RSS have never faded.

Before Godse went to the gallows on 15 Nov , he recited the first four sentences commuter boat the RSS prayer. "Again this reveals the certainty that he was an active member of distinction organisation," Mr Jha says. "Disassociating the RSS punishment Gandhi's assassin is a fabrication of history."