On Sarvarkar Jayanthi, let's revisit why VEER SARVARKAR is a forgotten freedom fighter HERO who has been demonised by the left eco system.
I will be posting quotes and facts from a biography written by Vikram Sampath.
'At Kalapani, Sarvarkar was confined to solitary imprisonment to shatter his will & set an example to the rest of the inmates. No other freedom fighters of India- Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Azad- were imprisoned & tortured to this extent.'
- T.V.M. Pai (Chairman Manipal Global Edu.)
'the British may or may not regret the mass murder of Indians at Jallianwala Bagh, but looking at Sarvarkar's experience of the Cellular Jail in Andaman, about which he himself wrote, & which has been denied the importance it deserves,
- continued 1/2
We have one more item on out national agenda to ask the British to apologise for- their barbaric treatment of freedom fighters.-
- Prof. Saradindu Mukherji, historian & member- Indian Council of Historical Research
'Sarvarkar lived a rich lige- a radical, "veer" freedom fighter; the subject of an international human rights & wrongful detention court battle in which his legal case was argued by, among others, a grandson of Karl Marx;' 1/
'.. author of a riveting biography of the uprising of 1858; a writer and poet of rare sensitivity in his native Marathi; a prime product box the firm and compelling intellectual and cultural narratives of Poona and especially of its Brahmin Community,
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... among modern India's early educated elites. Unfortunately, his final years and succeeding decades after his death in 1966 saw him being examined substantially through the prism of immediate party politics and ideological prejudices
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- rather than as a legatee of the Maratha renaissance, a product of his age, and an autonomous and independent political thinker, with a gift for trenchant interventions.'
- Ashok Malik, former press secretary to the President of India, political analyst and commentator.
Right from childhood, Vinayak found the caste system that plagued the Hindu society reprehensible. In his own little way he broke those barriers. Being an 'upper caste' Brahmin, Prashuram Darji and Rajaram Darji, who belonged to the tailor community, were among his best friends.
After the Queen's death in 1901, the sycophantic Indians were busy writing obituaries, Vinayak refused to bow down to the British even though their Mitra Mela caught the British suspicion. Sarvarkar argued against the Queen of being complicit in the massacre of Indians in 1857.
When sycophantic Indians were organising festivals in honour of Coronation of Emperor Edward, the Mitra Mela secretly put up posters all over Nashik with statements like
"WHY WOULD YOU HONOUR SOMEONE WHO MADE YOUR MOTHER A SLAVE?".
The Sarvarkar Conspiracy- Guy Aldred's The Herald of Revolt advocating the release of Sarvarkar.
On October 1, 1905, Sarvarkar gave rousing speeches asking people to boycott foreign goods and to bonfire them which was subsequently done with slogans or 'Goranna hya deshatoon hakalle jayeel" - the British should be expelled from India.
As a result of this bonfire, Sarvarkar, who was the a student at Fergusson College, was expelled from the college residence with a fine of Rs. 10. This earned Sarvarkar the title of being the first Indian leader to organise a mass bonfire of foreign goods.
While he was a Marathi, he encouraged the use of Hindi while he was in Kalapani. It confused people & they argued that their languages such as Tamil and Bengali have rich heritage and deserve to be the national language. Sarvarkar argued that we should love our mother tongue 1/2
And keep it's antiquity intact, there was a need for a cultural integrator due to India's diversity which would bind all Indians together in common thread of national identity and unity, and promoting Hindu as the Lingua Franca would help foster people to people integration. 2/2
In Kalapani, Sarvarkar started teaching the convicts as a means of jail reform. He propagated young convicts the idea of becoming better & patriotic citizens. Ten years ago, he saw convicts fighting & engaged in unproductivity & because of him the jail had 80% average literacy.
Extra information on Congress-
While people attribute Non cooperation movement to Congress. ITS WRONG. This idea of Gandhi was not supported by Congress. So he went to the Khilafat, got it ratified and in the garb of supporting Khilafat got ratification of non cooperation. 1/2
Jallianwala Bagh massacre had no effect on Gandhi as merely five months after it, Gandhi HIMSELF ADVOCATED COMPLETE COOPERATION WITH THE BRITISH. 2/2
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