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the methodologies of his scholarship especially the uncritical acceptance of Savarkar's self-laudatory memoirs, some written years after the incidents. He rejected Sampath's acceptance of Savarkar's mercy petitions as a shrewd strategy that ran parallel to the plot by Shivaji, in that Savarkar stuck to his promises of absolute cooperation until his death and refused to be associated with acts of rebellion, anymore. Pillai also notes Sampath to have not achieved the necessary distance of separation, required for penning an objective non-eulogizing biography; he remained in Savarkar's awe for much of the spans.
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praised Sampath's meticulous research and gathering of source materials to have aided in a definitive charting of his early years and noted of him to have persuasively laid out the case of Savarkar as a martyr who sacrificed his youth for the cause of the nation. However, Pillai sharply criticized
211:'s recommendation helped get him a scholarship to London where he spent five years; in London he built a network of revolutionaries across Europe and helped provide the intellectual basis for the movement. Sampath reveals how revolutionaries like 244:
Sampath has said that a motivation to write the book was that no comprehensive biography of Savarkar had been written since the 1960s, yet Savarkar was used in political discourse often, where the demand to give Savarkar a
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The series contains two books, the first volume talks about the life of Savarkar from the year 1883 to 1924. Whereas the concluding volume is focused on the year 1924 to 1966. Sampath's research included
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Sampath recalls:- 'Though there are hardly any references to him in our textbooks, Savarkar's name is often used in contemporary political discourse...'
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The second book covers the later years of Savarkar, starting from 1924 to 1966. The book talks about events such as his social reform works in
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The first book covers Savarkar’s life from birth to his release in 1924. There are details about other Indian independence activists like
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noted the work to be a sympathetic biography in a review over at
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after his release; his work with the Hindu Sangathans such as
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Janaki Bakhle, an associate professor of Indian history at
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is a two-part biography about Indian politician and writer
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called it, a must read no-nonsense book over a review at
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Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past
Vikram Sampath
Part 1
Part 2
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Vikram Sampath
Penguin Viking
Shyamji Krishna Verma
Virendranath Chattopadhyay
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bhagat Singh
Subhash Chandra Bose
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Ratnagiri
Hindu Mahasabha
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
non-violence
Bharat Ratna
Shiv Sena
Uddhav Thackeray
TCA Srinivasa Raghavan
Indian Council of World Affairs
Open Magazine
Manu S. Pillai
University of California, Berkeley
P. A. Krishnan
Outlook
Ashoka University
Gothenburg University
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