The RSS Workers Pracharaks In Motion: At Their Camps In Training

RSS workers at a shakha at Valmiki Colony, Delhi, preparing for Vijay Diwas,

Festive Times: RSS members gearing up for a march on the occasion of Vijayadashami.

A trumpet lies beside an RSS member who is part of the musical band from a shakha in Faridabad, Haryana.

At Work and At Play: RSS members at a ‘sayam shakha’ during their training camp at Panchghora in Hooghly district, West Bengal.

Junior members of a local shakha in Faridabad at a park.

This story appeared as One Hundred Years Of...Order in the print edition of Outlook magazine’s October 21 issue titled Who is an Indian?, which offers a bird's-eye view of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), testimonies of exclusion and inclusion, organisational complexities, and regional challenges faced by the organisation.