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Savarkar

Deccan Herald: BJP extols Savarkar amid Hindutva push in Karnataka

By Bharath Joshi / DHNS Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, a revolutionary with a contentious legacy, has become the Sangh Parivar’s latest tool to invoke Hindutva in...

Savarkar & His Critics: Why Both Ambedkar and the Upper Castes Opposed Him

By VINAYAK CHATURVEDI / The Quint VD Savarkar appeared to situate his writings in historiographical debates and provided critiques of sources of his earlier work as...

Savarkar never offered a clear definition of Project Hindutva. A new book shows that again

By YOGENDRA YADAV / The Print The political project called Hindutva has always faced a foundational contradiction: claiming inclusiveness while firmly practising exclusion. The necessity...

Gandhi memorial museum puts out special magazine issue on Savarkar

The national memorial and museum dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi has brought out a special edition of its monthly magazine dedicated to Hindutva leader Vinayak Damodar Savarkar...

‘Gandhi’s Assassin’: How VD Savarkar converted Nathuram Godse to his anti-Muslim cause

By Dhirendra K Jha There is no specific record about what led Godse to visit Savarkar, nor about who arranged the introductory meeting....

‘Savarkar did very little for India’s independence’

By ABHISH K. BOSE IN KOTTAYAM Interview with the historian Dr Vinay Lal. The claim of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh that V.D. Savarkar, the Hindutva icon, had...

Sulli deals: Targeting Muslim women sexually is inked in Hindutva icon Savarkar’s ideology

By Usama Hazari A few days ago, an app auctioning off Muslim women caused outrage on social media for its sadistic sexual targeting of women belonging...

History revisited: Was Veer Savarkar really all that brave?

Savarkar was chargesheeted in the assassination of Gandhi but exonerated, largely because no corroborative evidence of his involvement was furnished.