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Book Review of 'Savarkar: The true story of the father of Hindutva by Vaibhav Purandare, Juggernaut, 2019'

Book Review by K.S.Loganathan, Tyre and rubber consultant and author. Savarkar: The true story of the father of Hindutva by Vaibhav Purandare, Juggernaut, 2019 The Marathi biographer Vaibhav Purandare follows up on his biographies of Sachin Tendulkar and Bal Thackeray with that of the great anti-imperialist Indian patriot, Savarkar. He deals brilliantly with the interpretation of the immense mass of documents, particularly as reported in Marathi journals, relating to the complicated period of Indian history from the years 1883 to 1966 that Savarkar lived. The dark side of imperial Britain, the high hopes of the Indian nationalists and Savarkar’s own trials and tribulations are captured well. It was a period of much bitter discontent and turmoil all over Europe and Asia, marked by two world wars and the weakened position of the European colonial powers after 1945. Savarkar was born into a Chitpavan Brahmin community near Nasik, which embraced the Bri