This project made a lot of sense to me, not only because it gave me
an opportunity to share with other readers old and fairly rare books
that were lying on my shelves, but also because, in my previous work,
I often felt frustrated at being able to quote only short passages from
the ideologues of Hindu nationalism. In order to retrace the construction of this discourse over decades, even over centuries, it seemed
necessary to reproduce pages, indeed whole chapters of the foundational
texts.