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Savarkar repeatedly criticizes Hindu heroes like Shivaji for humane behavior to Muslim women. (The incident of Shivaji capturing the daughter of the governor of Kalyan and sending her back with full honors was often celebrated by other communalists, particularly in Maharashtra, as a sign of Hindu tolerance in opposition to Muslim behavior to Hindu women.) Savarkar rejected the moderate form of Hindu communalism and advocated brutality toward Muslim women. The nation tracing its contours on the bodies of women: Women of the upper-class, upper-caste majority community were the custodians of the national honor—not honor for their own sakes, but for the male-defined community/nation. For the same reason, defiling the honor of the opposite community was best done through the women of the opposite community. [See note 7]
Savarkar's definition of a community was a purely political entity based on race and the joining of religious dogma, so as to mobilize the majority of Hindus while streamlining all differences, creating a monolithic entity. Race theory was the normal basis of his creation of others, excepting Muslims: He lumped together all the Islamic peoples, to validate the construction of Muslims as the principal enemy to the Hindu nation. Savarkar's narrative consistently projected Muslim males as rapists who could be stopped only if Hindu men gave up their misplaced sense of chivalry and plunged into a "tit for tat" policy. [See note 8]
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