Savarkar : (1883-1966) younger brother of Ganesh Sāvarkar. In May 1906, sent by Tilak to England where & Krishnavarma Sardarsingh Rāṇā granted him their Rs 2000 p.a. Shivaji Travelling Fellowship. Vināyak enrolled in Grey’s Inn Law College but in 1909, became the first Indian denied admission to the English Bar despite passing all law exams & stipulated formalities. At India House Vināyak founded the Free India Society to recruit Indian students willing to join the revolutionary path to Swaraj. Scouring underground European sources he obtained a completer copy of the bomb-making manual which Hemchandra (q.v.) smuggled successfully to Barindra. But Chaturbhuj Amin, through whom Vināyak sent some Browning pistols, was ambushed by British CID & tortured. Copies of Vināyak’s Indian War of Independence, 1857, were smuggled & circulated among young Indian revolutionaries before the Octopus banned it. When Krishnavarma, Rāṇā, & Mme Cāmā were arrested as co-conspirators, Mme Cāmā signed a declaration taking the entire blame. Still, Vināyak returned to London in March 1910 & was arrested under the Fugitive Offenders Act. After three months of ‘due legal process’ a path-breaking verdict was passed, viz. British Courts would not do justice to him so he should be extradited to his country. On 8th July, he escaped from his escorts at Marseilles. The French promptly handed him back to fellow-imperialist British. His friends in Paris petitioned the Hague Tribunal against violation of International Laws. Hague threw out their case. In Bombay, the Special Tribunal including Justice Chandavarkar (q.v.), holding him guilty of making bombs, procuring firearms, smuggling them to India, & abetting Jackson’s murder, sentenced him to two successive life terms in Andamans. After release in 1921, he joined Hindu Mahāsabhā, advocated dismantling caste system & reconverting converted Hindus, opposed Gandhi’s Quit India agitation, the Partition of India, & INC’s blatant appeasement of Muslims at the expense of Hindus; regretted Nehru Govt.’s vote in the UNO against the creation of the Jewish State of Israel & restoration of entire Palestine to Israel. In his 1937 speech, Sāvarkar declared, “Let the Indian State be purely Indian. Let it not recognize any invidious distinctions whatsoever as regards the franchise, public services, offices, taxation on the grounds of religion & race. Let no cognizance be taken whatsoever of man being Hindu or Mohammedan, Christian or Jew. Let all citizens of that Indian State be treated according to their individual worth irrespective of their religious or racial percentage in the general population. If such an Indian State is kept in view, the Hindu Sanghatanists will, in the interest of Hindu Sangathan itself, be the first to offer their whole-hearted loyalty to it. I for one & thousands of the Mahāsabhāites like me have set this ideal of an Indian State as our political goal ever since the beginning of our political career & shall continue to work for its consummation to the end of our life.” ― The Hindu Mahāsabhā started a Satyagraha in March 1939 to secure religious & cultural liberty for the Hindus of Hyderabad State who at that time constituted 86 of its total population. Among the participants were Senāpati Bāpat, V.G. Deshpande, Prabhākar Balwant Dāni, Madhavrao Mule, while the Arya Samāj sent about 10,000 satyagrahis. At last, on July 19, 1939, the Nizam government announced some political reforms which granted only 50 seats to non-Muslims. [Shyamji Krishnavarma…., Indulal Yāgnik, Bombay, 1950; & other sources]
... out numerous protests. Savarkar is touring all over India and is getting a tremendous reception. SATYENDRA: Savarkar says Hindus have never been conquered by the Muslims after 1677. SRI AUROBINDO: What about Panipat? PURANI: He mentions Panipat but doesn't call it a conquest. Nadir Shah, he says, couldn't. SRI AUROBINDO: Because he didn't want to, perhaps. Savarkar has suddenly shot up into ...
... resemblance. Internal evidence therefore suggested that they came from the same source. Again the second leaflet was all about the Abhinav Bharat (New India) Society. This was the name given by V.D. Savarkar to the secret revolutionary society started by him in Nasik and continued in London and Paris. When it is remembered that Aiyar was V.D. Savakar's right hand man in London and Paris the inference ...
... many Congress members did the Viceroy propose last time? PURANI: Two, perhaps. SRI AUROBINDO: Now he may make it four and, if they refuse, he may take in the League, the Liberals and probably Savarkar and Ambedkar. PURANI: The Working Committee is giving counter-proposals, it appears. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, many are in favour of the National Government. So Rajagopalachari prevails. PURANI: ...
... nobody says anything. And he is interviewing the leaders all over again. He seems to be bent on expansion of his council, but perhaps nobody will accept it except the Liberals. NIRODBARAN: Why, Savarkar has said he will. SRI AUROBINDO: He has given qualified assent. He said some of his demands remained unsatisfied. SATYENDRA: Our Suren has again covered his body all over. NIRODBARAN: In ...
... DR. MANILAL: He says the Morley-Minto reform scheme with its separate electorates is responsible for this Hindu-Muslim disunity. SRI AUROBINDO: Anybody could have said that. DR. MANILAL: Savarkar also says that the British can't be defeated. SRI AUROBINDO: That is nonsense. They were saved by Divine intervention during this War. They would have been smashed if Hitler had invaded England ...
... Sartor Resartus, 111 Sastri, V. S. Srinivasa, 16, 529 Sastry, T. V. Kapali, 457, 459, 463fn, 547, 579,690,747 Satprem, 37 1ff Savage, D. S., 443 Savarkar, V. D., 266, 378 Savitri, 17, 20, 22, 100, 129,169, 327,415, 442, 459, 636, 646, 647, 653ff; Vyasa's Savitri, 653, 661-62; earlier versions, 653; "anew adventure", 654; "Kalidasian movement" ...
... politics became a whole-time mission or vocation; and there was the danger of disruption of family life, and the possibility of persecution and incarceration. Revolutionaries like Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, V.V.S. Aiyar and Jatindranath Mukherji (Bagha Jatin), of course, ran even greater dangers. When the fight for independence became a mass movement the women could hardly keep (or be kept) out. ...
... Napoleon. When he was in England Iyer had become an 'extremist'—especially after the Curzon Willie 1 episode—and in France he came close to Madame Bhaicaji Cama, Shyamji Krishna Verma and Veer Damodar Savarkar, revolutionaries all. In France WS Iyer learnt French and read in the original the War Memoirs of Napoleon. At Pondicherry, based on Napoleon's method of warfare, he produced a treatise on military ...
... of a few youthful conspirators, perfectly random in its aim and objective. The Nasik murder is an act of terrorist reprisal for the dangerously severe sentence passed on the revolutionary versifier Savarkar. It is natural that there should have been many meetings in Maharashtra to denounce the assassination, but such denunciations do not carry us very far. They have no effect whatever on the minds of ...
... Pondicherry before going to the Higher Court. On these points of procedure Bose's representative will have to consult a French lawyer. In case he is handed over, the Hague decision with regard to Savarkar will come in the way Page 192 & make the thing almost hopeless. The French Govṭ might still move on the ground that Bose is a French subject, but it could only succeed by strong diplomatic ...
... them come out from the high courts and fight." SRI AUROBINDO: I don't see why they should. They haven't, like him, given an ultimatum to the British Government. PURANI: "And where was he when Savarkar and Parmanand were in the Andamans?", the Hindu Sabha will say. ...
... have only been raids and skirmishes till now. One can't judge from that. PURANI: Malta is such a small place and so near. The Italians have not been able to do anything till now. (After a while) Savarkar is not enthusiastic over the Viceroy's extension of the Executive Council, it seems. SRI AUROBINDO: Nobody would be enthusiastic. It is like the old reforms, giving one or two seats. PURANI: ...
... the courses that could be followed. And all this came enlivened with a sense of quiet humour that made the grimness of the War itself appear light, even an enjoyable game of forces. On 29.12.40 Savarkar gave a speech in which he said that the British could not be defeated. Sri Aurobindo commented: "Nonsense. They were saved by Divine Intervention. They would have been smashed if Hitler had invaded ...
... create an effective organization to defend Hinduism against militant Islam. Later, the Hindu Mela organization was formed to revive the pride in Hindu civilization. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar founded the Mitra Mela in 1899 in Bombay. It was later known as the Abhinava Bharat Society (Young India Society). It advocated armed struggle to throw off the shackles of foreign rule. But the most ...
... also the revolutionaries from Tamil Nad - Bharati, Srinivasachariar, Subramania Siva, Nagaswami Aiyar and V.V.S. Aiyar (the last a close friend of the Maharashtrian revolutionary, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar). The stooge in this matter was Mayuresan, a French Indian, and the "documents" were placed in a tin box and dropped into the well in V.V.S. Aiyar's house. Accidentally the maid-servant caught up ...
... Literature On 4 April 1910, a significant event occurred: Sri Aurobindo, poet, patriot and Yogi, arrived in Pondicherry from Bengal. Towards the end of 1910, V. V. S. Aiyar - Barrister Savarkar's comrade-in-arms - also arrived, escaping from the prison that was British India. Pondicherry was fast becoming the refuge of Indian patriots, and also the radiating centre of a new renaissance, offering ...
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