Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, by Vikram Sampath 2019 Hardcover New

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Accounts of his eventful and stormy life have oscillated from eulogizing hagiographies to disparaging demonization. Savarkar and his ideology stood as one of the strongest and most virulent opponents of Gandhi, his pacifist philosophy and the Indian National Congress.

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Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Politics of History by Vinayak Cha

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Examines the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the key architects of modern Hindu and Violence explores the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883–1966), the most controversial Indian political thinker of the twentieth century and a key architect of Hindu nationalism.

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History and the Making of a Modern Hindu Self by Aparna Devare (English) Hardcov

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History and the Making of a Modern Hindu Self by Aparna Devare. Author Aparna Devare. Taking the contentious debates surrounding historical evidence and history writing between secularists and Hindu nationalists as a starting point, this book seeks to understand the origins of a growing historical consciousness in contemporary India, especially amongst Hindus.

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History and the Making of a Modern Hindu Self, Hardcover by Devare, Aparna, B…

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Through a close reading of original writings, speeches and biographical material, it is demonstrated that these three individuals were engaged with a modern historical and rationalist approach. Savarkar, the 'explicitly Hindu’ leader, on the contrary, held Hindu practices and traditions in contempt, confining them to historical analysis while denying any role for religion as spirituality or morality in contemporary political life.

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Through a close reading of original writings, speeches and biographical material, it is demonstrated that these three individuals were engaged with a modern historical and rationalist approach. Savarkar, the 'explicitly Hindu’ leader, on the contrary, held Hindu practices and traditions in contempt, confining them to historical analysis while denying any role for religion as spirituality or morality in contemporary political life.

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