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Savarkar
Hindutva
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...
Hindutva
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...
Hindutva
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...
Hindutva
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...
Hindutva
‘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....
Hindutva
‘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...
Hindutva
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...
Hindu Mahasabha
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.