ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the Shiv Sena's relationship with Mumbai's urban culture. It concentrates on the concrete and multifarious ways that the shakha and the universe of the young overlap. It also explores diverse situations and types of clubs, with the aim of highlighting their relationship with the Shiv Sena and the way they mutually influence one another. In this chapter, despite the connections between the two worlds of associations, the authors differentiate here between mandal, working class and lower middle-class associations and the 'clubs' of the 'bourgeois' classes. Mandal could be very large entities. Some of them represented economic power. There are many mandal, some of whose members belong to the Shiv Sena yet succeed in asserting their autonomy. Numerous instances of the Shiv Sena's direct interventions were presented as mandal or 'middle class' club activities.
