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HINDUTVA: SAVARKAR UNMASKEDShamsul Islam
[Revised 3rd
edition November 2015]
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar today shares national eminence with M.
K. Gandhi; their
portraits hang side by side on the walls of Indian Parliament.
This is despite the fact thatSardar Patel, the first Home Minister
of India, held Savarkar responsible for the murderof the Father of
the Nation. In a letter, dated February 27, 1948, to Jawaharlal
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) andsaw it through.
This book is the outcome of a sincere urge to separate facts
from myths and present facts
as they unfolded in the history of Indias Freedom Struggle. In
order to know the realSavarkar, author has mainly relied 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,
astonishingly, show thathe 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. This
book also evaluates theoriginal 1923 edition of Hindutva authored
by Savarkar so that all those who cherish a
democratic-secular India are able to understand the gravity of
ideas which originated to
undo India.
Khushwant Singh on this book:
[Savarkar] in his presidential speech at the Mahasabha
conference in Ahmedabad in
1937, said: As it is, there are two antagonistic nations living
side by side in India'...Th eHindu Mahasabha had no problem in
joining the Muslim League Government in Sind
and Bengal. He was also the supporter of the princely order and
thought it would not be a
bad idea if the King of Nepal became the Hindu emperor of
India...If you want to recheckwhat I have written, take a look at
Shamsul Islam's book on Savarkar published by Media
House.
Khushwant Singh.
Publisher: Media House, Delhi. Mobile: 91-9555642600.
Email: [email protected]
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