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Why Savarkar?
The first person to burn down the first lot of foreign made clothes against the Bengal partition movement on the October 1905 Pune. Bal Gangadhar Tilak offered full support to Savarkar here.
Ironically approx 16 years later July 1921, Gandhi called for a boycott of foreign clothes in Mumbai.
The only Patriot who called for a boycott of the coronation festival of edward the seventh.
The first Patriot known for his opposition to the condolence proposal for queen victoria at Nasik.
The first Indian who was rusticated from ferguson College in Pune and fined ₹ 10 later in Kesri Bal Gangadhar Tilak wrote editorial in Savarkar's support.
Savarkar the only barrister who after clearing exam refused reading the oath of being faithful to britfags and for this reason was not awarded the title of a barrister.
Savarkar was the first author whose work, "1857, the first war of independence," was banned before it was even published! Bhagat Singh was the first person to get the book printed in India at his own payment. Each copy was sold at ₹ 300 very high price at that time.
Savarkar was the first revolutionary whose litigation had gone to the International Court but due to the combined conspiracy of the britfags french was unable to get Justice.
Savarkar was born leader and extremly influential that even the son of marx agreed to fight his case.
Savarkar who after suffering imprisonment from the britfags for 30 years pre independence. He was again imprisoned by nehru in 1948 on the false charge of Gandhi's murder but was forced to free him when the Court found out he was falsely implicated.
Some fake claims about Savarkar. We will demolish those one by one.
1) Wrong claim about the Savarkar giving the title of Veer to himself?
Savarkar faces from the noobs this ridiculous claim is that he wrote a biography of himself in 1926 posing as someone by the name of Chitragupta and glorified himself in it to no end. It wasn’t known until 1987 when the publisher revealed that Chitragupta was infact Savarkar himself. We will check the reality of this.
‘Life of Barrister Savarkar’ was published from Madras by G. Paul & Co publishers. There is no mention about author’s identity in that book & it’s preface is given below.
There in no mention of word ‘ Veer’ in this book. So the allegation that Savarkar was hailed as veer for the first time in this book is false irrespective of whoever had written this book.
The 2 nd edition is published in 1986 and it is not published by it’s first original publishers. The claim that it was written by Savarkar himself comes from the second publisher of the book, Dr. Ravindra Ramdas. No references were provided by him in preface to support the statement. It was definitely a very unusual statement to make 60 years after 1st edition published.
Source :
https://archive.org/details/life_of_barrister_savarkar_by_chitragupta/page/n5/mode/2up
The 1st edition which was published by G. Paul & co publication, it’s preface was different & the 2nd edition in 1986 which is published by Ramdas has different preface which without any reference claims that chitragupta was Savarkar.
The title ‘Veer’ was famous even in 1924’s. Savarkar biography SwatantryaVeer’ Vinayakrao Savarkar is from 1924 by Sadashiv Rajaram Ranade, preface by N.C. Kelkar in which he is referred by this title ‘Veer’ two years before the book ‘Life of Barrister Savarkar’.
Source
https://archive.org/details/swatantraveersavarkarsadashivarajaramranade/page/n1/mode/2up
And even revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh praised Savarkar by calling him by that title..
See the post for more details
https://rediscoveringsavarkar.wordpress.com/2022/11/24/savarkar-and-bhagat-singh/
Next, We then found an Advertisement for the following book in the Bombay Chronicles of July 1927. The ad was asking people to order the book. Now upon reading the ad carefully you gonna come across the term, “The story of the life of this famous patriot written by a close friend…”
The ad in this newspaper clearly states that the Life of Barrister Savarkar was not the work of Savarkar himself but rather one of his associates. The ad was published by B.G Paul and Co, who had an extensive publishing service in Madras, from books related to religion and philosophy they covered many genres. Since Savarkar was not allowed to leave Ratnagiri because of his house arrest. It was totally impossible for him to get a book published that far away. So who was his close friend who could have been in madras?
It could be VVS Aiyyer or Rajagopalachari from Madras presidency who published this book. Moreover Savarkar was in house arrest in Ratnagiri that time.
So the conclusion is
1. ‘Life of Barrister Savarkar’ was not written by V D Savarkar
2. It is not in that book Savarkar was praised by Veer title for the first time
3. Infact there is no word like ‘Veer’ in that book.
To be continued.
The first person to burn down the first lot of foreign made clothes against the Bengal partition movement on the October 1905 Pune. Bal Gangadhar Tilak offered full support to Savarkar here.
Ironically approx 16 years later July 1921, Gandhi called for a boycott of foreign clothes in Mumbai.
The only Patriot who called for a boycott of the coronation festival of edward the seventh.
The first Patriot known for his opposition to the condolence proposal for queen victoria at Nasik.
The first Indian who was rusticated from ferguson College in Pune and fined ₹ 10 later in Kesri Bal Gangadhar Tilak wrote editorial in Savarkar's support.
Savarkar the only barrister who after clearing exam refused reading the oath of being faithful to britfags and for this reason was not awarded the title of a barrister.
Savarkar was the first author whose work, "1857, the first war of independence," was banned before it was even published! Bhagat Singh was the first person to get the book printed in India at his own payment. Each copy was sold at ₹ 300 very high price at that time.
Savarkar was the first revolutionary whose litigation had gone to the International Court but due to the combined conspiracy of the britfags french was unable to get Justice.
Savarkar was born leader and extremly influential that even the son of marx agreed to fight his case.
Savarkar who after suffering imprisonment from the britfags for 30 years pre independence. He was again imprisoned by nehru in 1948 on the false charge of Gandhi's murder but was forced to free him when the Court found out he was falsely implicated.
Some fake claims about Savarkar. We will demolish those one by one.
1) Wrong claim about the Savarkar giving the title of Veer to himself?
Savarkar faces from the noobs this ridiculous claim is that he wrote a biography of himself in 1926 posing as someone by the name of Chitragupta and glorified himself in it to no end. It wasn’t known until 1987 when the publisher revealed that Chitragupta was infact Savarkar himself. We will check the reality of this.
‘Life of Barrister Savarkar’ was published from Madras by G. Paul & Co publishers. There is no mention about author’s identity in that book & it’s preface is given below.
There in no mention of word ‘ Veer’ in this book. So the allegation that Savarkar was hailed as veer for the first time in this book is false irrespective of whoever had written this book.
The 2 nd edition is published in 1986 and it is not published by it’s first original publishers. The claim that it was written by Savarkar himself comes from the second publisher of the book, Dr. Ravindra Ramdas. No references were provided by him in preface to support the statement. It was definitely a very unusual statement to make 60 years after 1st edition published.
Source :
https://archive.org/details/life_of_barrister_savarkar_by_chitragupta/page/n5/mode/2up
The 1st edition which was published by G. Paul & co publication, it’s preface was different & the 2nd edition in 1986 which is published by Ramdas has different preface which without any reference claims that chitragupta was Savarkar.
The title ‘Veer’ was famous even in 1924’s. Savarkar biography SwatantryaVeer’ Vinayakrao Savarkar is from 1924 by Sadashiv Rajaram Ranade, preface by N.C. Kelkar in which he is referred by this title ‘Veer’ two years before the book ‘Life of Barrister Savarkar’.
Source
https://archive.org/details/swatantraveersavarkarsadashivarajaramranade/page/n1/mode/2up
And even revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh praised Savarkar by calling him by that title..
See the post for more details
https://rediscoveringsavarkar.wordpress.com/2022/11/24/savarkar-and-bhagat-singh/
Next, We then found an Advertisement for the following book in the Bombay Chronicles of July 1927. The ad was asking people to order the book. Now upon reading the ad carefully you gonna come across the term, “The story of the life of this famous patriot written by a close friend…”
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The ad in this newspaper clearly states that the Life of Barrister Savarkar was not the work of Savarkar himself but rather one of his associates. The ad was published by B.G Paul and Co, who had an extensive publishing service in Madras, from books related to religion and philosophy they covered many genres. Since Savarkar was not allowed to leave Ratnagiri because of his house arrest. It was totally impossible for him to get a book published that far away. So who was his close friend who could have been in madras?
It could be VVS Aiyyer or Rajagopalachari from Madras presidency who published this book. Moreover Savarkar was in house arrest in Ratnagiri that time.
So the conclusion is
1. ‘Life of Barrister Savarkar’ was not written by V D Savarkar
2. It is not in that book Savarkar was praised by Veer title for the first time
3. Infact there is no word like ‘Veer’ in that book.
To be continued.