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HINDUTVA

SAVARKAR UNMASKED

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar today shares national eminence with M. K. Gandhi; their portraits hang side by side on the walls of Indian Parliament. This is despite the fact that Sardar Patel, the first Home Minister of India, held Savarkar responsible for the murder of the Father of the Nation. In a letter, dated February 27, 1948, to Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister of India, Patel wrote: ‘It was a fanatical wing of the Hindu Mahasabha directly under Savarkar that hatched the conspiracy (to kill Mahatma) and saw it through.’

This book is the outcome of a sincere urge to separate facts from myths and present facts as they unfolded in the history of India’s Freedom Struggle. In order to know the real Savarkar, author has mainly relied on original documents available in the archives of Hindu Mahasabha, the RSS, the Government of India and the memoirs of revolutionaries who were in the Cellular Jail with Savarkar. These documents, astonishingly, show that he not only kept aloof from the Freedom Movement but also openly helped the British war efforts during the World War II at a time when Subhash Chandra Bose was trying to liberate India militarily. Savarkar remained a diehard believer in Casteism, Racism and Imperialism throughout his life. He called it Hindutva. This book also evaluates the original 1923 edition of Hindutva authored by Savarkar so that all those who cherish a democratic-secular India are able to understand the gravity of ideas which originated to undo India.

[Savarkar] in his presidential speech at the Mahasabha conference in Ahmedabad in 1937, said: ‘As it is, there are two antagonistic nations living side by side in India’…The Hindu Mahasabha had no problem in joining the Muslim League Government in Sind and Bengal. He was also the supporter of the princely order and thought it would not be a bad idea if the King of Nepal became the Hindu emperor of India…If you want to recheck what I have written, take a look at Shamsul Islam’s book on Savarkar published by Media House.

—Khushwant Singh.

About the Author

CONTENTS

Foreword

Dr. D. R. Gvyal

Introduction

MYTH1

Savarkar was a Legendary Freedom Fighter. Savarkar Displayed Rare Courage.

He Never Collaborated with the British Rulers

FACTS
A Freedom Fighter for All-inclusive India

Savarkar’s Adoration of Muslim Heroes

Second Phase: Surrender before the British as Prophet of Hindu Separatism.

Savarkar was Allowed to Reorganize Hindu Mahasabha

Despite Ban on His Political Activities

Savarkar Betrayed Quit India Movement by Helping the British.

Savarkar Sided with the British Imperialists against Subhash Chandra Bose

Extra-Territorial Loyalty: Savarkar wanted Nepal King to Rule India

Savarkar’s Hatred for the Tricolour

Savarkar as Defender of Hindu Princes Who Were British Henchmen

Savarkar and Revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh

Myth 1: References and Notes.

MYTH 2

Savarkar Spent Most of His Life in the Cellular Jail

FACTS.

Savarkar’s
Conviction

Revolutionaries who Defied Colonial Rulers

Trailokyanath Chakravarti

Baba Gurmukh Singh.

Pandit
Ramraksha

InduBhushanRoy

Ullaskar
Dutt

Jyotish Chandra
Pal

Parmanand
Chhatra
Singh

Pulin Behari
Das.

NandGop

NaniGopal

Myth 2: References and Notes

MYTH 3

Savarkar’s Mercy Petitions Were a Ruse to Secure

Freedom in Order to Work for the Liberation of the Motherland

Shamsul Islam taught Political Science at the University of Delhi. As an author, columnist and dramatist he is known for his
unrelenting opposition to religious intolerance, dehumanization, totalitarianism, persecution of women, Dalits and
minorities.