THE RSS COUP IN THE IGHR 57 (Besides Akbar) almost all the other Mughal Emperors were notorious for their religious bigotry ... In the present volume, reference has been made in some detail to the Muslim bigotry in general and the persecution of the Hindus by Aurangzib in particular. The communal approach comes out not only in direct statements of this kind, but also in the entire plan of the volumes. For example, in Volume VII Mughal conflicts with Muslim rulers are grouped separately from those with Hindu rulers, irrespective of chronology and geography. The two chapters dealing with the former are headed "Muslim Resistance to Mughal Imperialism", the chapter treating the latter is, however, given the title "Hindu Resistance to Muslim Domination.59 The editor remains seemingly unaware of the contradiction in the two headings, immersed as he is in his anxiety to assume that while Muslim rulers fought the Mughals for the sake of power, the Hindu rulers invariably fought for the faith. Besides being dominated by the communal approach, the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan volumes are organized on an incredibly old fashioned plan with formal political history overshadowing everything else. Indeed, while technically much superior to the products of the official historiography of Pakistan, the Vidya Bhavan scries follows essentially the same approach to history as they do. Translation Scheme Under Government Auspices Not surprisingly, the promotion of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan series became a popular preoccupation with the communal elements. Close ties developed between the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Vidya Bhavan. R C Majumdar, general editor of the Bhavan history, wrote articles for the RSS mouthpiece, Organiser. It is not generally known, however, that the Congress Government, while talking of secularism and Socialism ad infinitum also gave loans and subsidies towards the publication of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan series. In the late, '60s the Government of India took the further step of sponsoring translations of the scries in all Indian languages and paid the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan handsome royalties aganist the purchase of translation rights. This was done under the so-called Core Book Programme of the Languages Division of the Union Ministry of Education. A scheme was thus hatched to propagate the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan interpretation of Indian history throughout the length and breadth of