About the Book: Savarkar : Echoes From A Forgotten Past 1883 To 1924
As the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in
political ascendancy in India today, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is undoubtedly one
of the most contentious political thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century.
Accounts of his eventful and stormy life have oscillated from eulogizing
hagiographies to disparaging demonization. The truth, as always, lies somewhere
in between and has unfortunately never been brought to light. Savarkar and his
ideology stood as one of the strongest and most virulent opponents of Gandhi,
his pacifist philosophy and the Indian National Congress. An alleged atheist