#VandeMataram and #VeerSavarkar

These 2 words warms any nationalists heart at any given point of time.

On the occasion of #VeerSavarkarJayanti, I share here 3 Periods of his life which are hidden from public for nearly 60-100 years.

1 Against British
2 Casteism
3 After Gandhi

Every Time He Petitioned, The British Rejected It. They Said, He Is Unrepentant & Is Dangerous In INDIAN MAINLAND.
They knew what Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was capable of, but the 3rd rated characterless Nehru Gandhi stooges till date whine about the mercy petitions.

The British documents speak of how petrified they were of his very presence and hence wanted him as far away from the Indian mainland as possible.

As a young man, Savarkar established the country’s first secret society of revolutionaries—the Mitra Mela, that later became

Abhinav Bharat which inspired to form Anushilan Samithi and Jugantar and facilitated a fantastic network of revolutionaries across India.
Not many know, Abhinav Bharat laid foundation for RSS.

Savarkar was the first political leader to set Independence as India’s goal in 1900.

It was accepted much later by the Congress in its Lahore session in 1929.
In the five years that Savarkar spent in London as a law student, he galvanised the revolutionary movement that sought total and complete freedom from British rule.

Afraid, British government categorised

him as one of the most dangerous seditionists and he was classified as a “D” or Dangerous Criminal.

Savarkar was also acting as a spokesperson for other prisoners in his petitions, and several of them talk about seeking a general amnesty for all, especially after the

First World War. Sir Reginald Craddock who interviewed Savarkar said that he “cannot be said to express any regret or repentance” for whatever he did. Gandhi himself advised Savarkar’s younger brother Narayanrao to file a petition seeking the release of his elder brothers and

built a strong case for them. His letter was also published in Young India dated 26 May 1920, titled ‘Savarkar Brothers’.

On his way back, Craddock wrote his report onboard the ship where he said that Savarkar “cannot be said to express any regret or repentance” for whatever

he did. “So important a leader is he,” Craddock noted, “that the European section of the Indian anarchists would plot for his escape which would before long be organised. If he were allowed outside the Cellular Jail in the Andamans, his escape would be certain. His friends

could easily charter a steamer to lie off one of the islands and a little money distributed locally would do the rest.”

Can you believe, @the_hindu defends him carrying afore mentioned incident.

https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/article30204154.ece.

The below 3 tweets must be read twice

With the end of World War 1, Emperor George V’s royal proclamation granted a wholesale amnesty to all political prisoners lodged across India and the Andamans. Barin Ghose, Trailokya Nath Chakravarti, Hemachandra Das, Sachindra Nath Sanyal, Parmanand and others in Cellular Jail

were released with a pledge to not participate in politics for a stipulated time. Congress workers who had been arrested after the non-cooperation movement of 1919 were also released on this principle. However, the same benefits were not accrued to Savarkar & his elder brother.

Sanyal in his memoirs says both of their petitions were identical but British denied Savarkar's release as they feared that their release would rekindle the revolutionary movement in Maharashtra that they had spearheaded through their secret organisation – Abhinav Bharat.

Durgadas Khanna who later became the chairman of the Punjab Legislative Council was an associate of Bhagat Singh and revealed in an interview that while being recruited to the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev had asked him if he had read the

works of Veer Savarkar. Bhagat Singh even got the 1857 book’s second edition published.Years later, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Rash Behari Bose got Japanese editions published. Tamil versions of the book were found during the Indian National Army (INA) raids.

After release

Savarkar immersed himself in Nation Building through Social Reforms..
Providing guidance on how to abolish the caste system and untouchability, Savarkar said: “To achieve social revolution we first have to strike at the birth-based caste system and bridge the differences between

the various castes. As an action plan, a person born into a Brahmin family should be called a laggard if he is one and a person born in a shudra family must be called intelligent if he is one no matter whether their fathers and forefathers were intelligent or laggards.”

If you want to know how Savarkar felt about the necessity of eradication of untouchability then what he said on the occasion of Ganeshotsav in a Valmiki basti must be looked into. He said—“I wish I would see untouchability removed. After my death may those giving shoulder to my

coffin be comprised of businessmen, of Dhed and Dome [the so-called low-castes], apart from Brahmins! Only on being consigned to flame by them all will my soul rest to peace.”

On 14th April, 1942 on the occasion of 50th birthday of BhimRao Ambedkar, Veer Savarkar sent to him—

“With his personality, learning, skill in organization and capability of giving leadership Ambedkar would have become a great mainstay of the country today, but the success he achieved in eradicating untouchability and infusing self-confidence and spirit among untouchables by

that he did valuable service to India. His work is of eternal nature, humanitarian and that of imbued with pride in one’s own country.
The feeling that a great man like Ambedkar is born in so-called untouchable-cast this will eliminate despair prevailed in the hearts of

untouchables, and from the life of Ambedkar they will get energy to face the dominance of so-called touchables. Having full respect to the personality and works of Ambedkar I wish for his long and healthy life.”

The Constitution of free India, according to Savarkar was

to be one where equal rights and obligations were conferred on all people irrespective of caste, creed, race and religion. He said: “The conception of this Hindu Nation is in no way inconsistent with the development of a common Indian Nation…in which all sects and sections

races and religions, castes and creeds, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Anglo-Indians could be harmoniously welded together into a political state on terms of perfect equality.

Since I have to end this thread for lack of space, I will follow with what Netaji Subhash said over

the radio and finally what happened after Gandhi's murder.

To be continued in next thread