From The Caravan
The RSS Project
Mapping the Largest Far-Right Network in the World
Seeing the Sangh is the world’s first comprehensive map of the organisational affiliates surrounding the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh—which together constitute the largest far-right network in the world. This interactive dataset, which currently includes comprehensive qualitative and quantitative data on over two thousand and five hundred organisations, is stored at a repository housed at the Science Po’s Centre for International Studies (CERI), and has been fact-checked and published by The Caravan.
This project arises from, and seeks to correct, a long-standing fuzziness around the organisational architecture of the Hindu far-right. The RSS formally acknowledges only about three dozen affiliates, even though it is widely understood to coordinate a sprawling network. Internally, RSS publications and leaders routinely describe this constellation as a unified entity; externally, they have consistently attempted to disguise, dilute or deny ties with many of these bodies.
As a result, we have never had access to a full picture of how this ecosystem functions—how resources circulate, where authority lies, and where the RSS’s influence begins and ends. To address this gap, Seeing the Sangh researchers spent six years excavating the network from the Sangh’s own documentary trail. All evidence was sourced from publicly available materials, with the Sangh’s own publications at its core, and then corroborated with academic literature, financial filings and government documents. The result is a public resource that offers, for the first time, a fuller picture of how this ecosystem operates.
We invite you to explore the map and the underlying network. This is a dynamic database and so is a work in progress. If you spot any inadvertent errors, glitches or have information on additional organisations, please share it through the submission form. For details on the project and its methodology, read our FAQs. For a deeper reflection on why such an intervention is necessary, see Felix Pal’s essay, “Exposing the largest far-right network in history.”
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