The greatest of these invaders was Kanishka, whose realm stretched from Turfan in the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang to Pataliputra on the Gangetic Plain. Kanishka was of Turushka or Turkestani origin. These new rulers, some of whom were Buddhists, were quickly absorbed into Hindu society and were made Agnikula Rajputs (family of the fire God), while others got more extravagant genealogies deriving from the sun and moon, hence Suryavanshi and Chandravanshi Rajputs.
In this manner, the integrity of the Brahminical Varna system was preserved.
This concoction of genealogies is a continuing pattern of all those who usurp power by stirring up sectarian and communal passions, like the Nazis.
Nazi theologists gave the Germans an elaborate genealogy of descent from the Aryans, with blond, blue eyed and Nordic looks. But like unschooled genealogists, they got the Aryan swastika wrong, which is just the mirror opposite in the Nazi depiction.
The ultra-nationalist RSS is still in search of a genealogy that will connect it to the nationalist movement that won India its freedom. The truth is that the contemporary writings and speeches of RSS leaders have a very different story to tell. These leaders showed little enthusiasm for the anti-British struggle.
Though the founder of the RSS, BR Hedgewar had an early association with the Congress and other nationalist movements like Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad’s Hindustan Republican Association, he left it all behind to establish the RSS.
He also stopped his followers from the nationalist path. In fact, a later Sarsanghchalak, BR Deoras, wrote approvingly of how “Dr. Hedgewar saved him and others from the path of Bhagat Singh and his comrades”.
With the death of Hedgewar in 1940, the RSS lost all interest in freedom. Its new leader MS Golwalkar drew inspiration from Adolf Hitler’s ideology of race purity. Paradoxically, Golwalkar also admired Jews for “maintaining their religion, culture and language.”