The triumverate of Pandit Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel.

Dr B.R. Ambedkar, the principal architect of the Constitution of India. His 1946 book on Pakistan was incisive.

The flag of the Jana Sangh

Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, or ‘Shri Guruji’ as he was known, was Chief of the RSS between 1940-73

Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee, freedom fighter and founder of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh.

Advani (sitting extreme right in centre row) as a young RSS pracharak in Rajasthan.

Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, whose treatise ‘Integral Humanism’, became the basic ideological guide for the BJP.

Balraj Madhok, former President of the Jana Sangh.

K.R. Malkani, Editor of the Organiser and a fellow RSS activist in Sindh.

Prem Nath Dogra, a leader of the Kashmir integration movement being felicitated by the Jana Sangh workers led by Pandit Upadhyay

Two stalwarts of the Jana Sangh — Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya and Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1967.

With Atalji at a party conference

With Kushabhau Thakre on his left, who later became President of the BJP.