India: A Wounded Civilization - pg. 72

But it was a middle-class burden, the burden of those whose nationalism - after the years of subjection - required them to have an idea of India. Lower down, in the chawls and the squatter' settlements of the city, among the dispossessed, needs were more elemental: food, shelter, water, a latrine. Identity there was no problem; it was a discovery. Identity was what the young men of the Sena were reaching out to, with the simplicities of their politics and their hero figures (the seventeenth-century Shivaji, warrior chieftain turned to war god, the twentieth-century Dr. Ambedkar, untouchable now only in his sanctity).