One can find a certain continuity between the ideas of nations and nationhood expressed in Savarkar%u2019s Hindutva and the content of these declarations. Indeed in his book, Savarkar, referring to the Muslims, asserted that %u201Ctheir holyland is far off in Arabia or Palestine. Their mythology and godmen, ideas and heroes are not children of this soil. Consequently their names and their outlook smack of foreign origin (Hindutva: Who is Hindu?).
A feeling of admiration for the Jewish policy of Germany seems to have been shared by the entire circle of Hindu nationalism at the end of the 1930s. In We, or Our Nationhood Defined, Golwalkar, who would become general secretary of the RSS a year later declared that:
%u201CGerman national pride has now become the topic of the day. To keep up the purity of the nation and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic races %u2014 the Jews. National pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well%u2013nigh impossible it is for races and cultures, having differences going to the mot (?), to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindustan to learn and profit by%u201D.
This had its root in the idea that being a Hindu was a matter of race and blood, not only a matter of culture. In turn that was an idea which was strikingly similar to the racial myths celebrated in Germany, more than in Italy.
Golwarkar%u2019s position regarding Muslims was even more extreme than Savarkar%u2019s: %u201Cin one word, they (Muslims) must cease to be foreigners or may stay in the country wholly subordinated to the Hindu nation claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, far less any preferential treatment, not even citizen%u2019s rights%u201D.
