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Nagpur and New Delhi, India — As October began, from a stage under the hot sun in Nagpur I watched thousands of Indian men, in white short-sleeved dress shirts, brown pants, and black caps, line up and demonstrate martial arts and yoga. It was part of a vast, elaborate ceremony celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or RSS, which Wikipedia ominously describes as a “right-wing” Hindu nationalist “paramilitary organization.”

Then the announcer proclaimed the names of the distinguished guests in attendance, including a former South African health minister, a royal Brahmin from Thailand, and “Jim Geraghty of National Review.”