Aarayirunnu Savarkar?

Malayalam version of ‘Hindutva: Savarkar Unmasked’, the famous political and historical study by Dr. Shamsul Islam. ‘Aarayirunnu Savarkar’ separates facts from myths and present facts as they unfolded in the history of India’s Freedom Struggle. Shamsul Islam mainly relies 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, awfully, 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.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar today shares national eminence with Gandhiji; 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 Jawabarlal 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.’

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