{"product_id":"savarkar-ek-bhule-bisre-ateet-ki-goonj","title":"Savarkar: Ek Bhule-Bisre Ateet Ki Goonj","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political\u003cbr\u003e\nascendancy in India today, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is undoubtedly one of\u003cbr\u003e\nthe most contentious political thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\nAccounts of his eventful and stormy life have oscillated from eulogizing\u003cbr\u003e\nhagiographies to disparaging demonization. The truth, as always, lies\u003cbr\u003e\nsomewhere in between and has unfortunately never been brought to light.\u003cbr\u003e\nSavarkar and his ideology stood as one of the strongest and most virulent\u003cbr\u003e\nopponents of Gandhi, his pacifist philosophy and the Indian National Congress.\u003cbr\u003e\nAn alleged atheist and a staunch rationalist who opposed orthodox Hindu\u003cbr\u003e\nbeliefs, encouraged inter-caste marriage and dining, and dismissed cow worship\u003cbr\u003e\nas mere superstition, Savarkar was, arguably, the most vocal political voice for\u003cbr\u003e\nthe Hindu community through the entire course of India's freedom struggle. From\u003cbr\u003e\nthe heady days of revolution and generating international support for the cause\u003cbr\u003e\nof India's freedom as a law student in London, Savarkar found himself arrested,\u003cbr\u003e\nunfairly tried for sedition, transported and incarcerated at the Cellular Jail, in the\u003cbr\u003e\nAndamans, for over a decade, where he underwent unimaginable torture.\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom being an optimistic advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity in his treatise on the\u003cbr\u003e\n1857 War of Independence, what was it that transformed him in the Cellular Jail\u003cbr\u003e\nto a proponent of 'Hindutva', which viewed Muslims with suspicion?\u003cbr\u003e\nDrawing from a vast range of original archival documents across India and\u003cbr\u003e\nabroad, this biography in two parts-the first focusing on the years leading up to\u003cbr\u003e\nhis incarceration and eventual release from the Kalapani-puts Savarkar, his life\u003cbr\u003e\nand philosophy in a new perspective and looks at the man with all his\u003cbr\u003e\nachievements and failings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45073575149747,"sku":"9780143450702","price":440.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/61Gtw84UKrL.jpg?v=1762870831","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/savarkar-ek-bhule-bisre-ateet-ki-goonj","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}