60 years of Shiv Sena: Mills, Marathi manoos, Matoshree – and now an existential crisis

For six decades, the Shiv Sena survived by changing with Maharashtra. It reinvented itself from a trade union movement into a champion of Marathi identity, and one of India’s most influential proponents of Hindutva. Today, however, the party faces an existential crisis unlike any in its history.