11-17-2006, 09:55 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Anyone know about this book?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The book is available online at:
http://dli.iiit.ac.in/cgi-bin/Browse/scrip...e=2020050057563
Goel has this to say about this book:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->32 This jihãd which was joined by Hindu rebellions on the fringes was named as The Indian War of Independence, 1857 (London, 1909) by V.D. Savarkar. He had yet to learn the history of Islam in India. It is significant that âsecularistsâ and Muslim who hate Savarkar, hail the book as well as its name.
http://voiceofdharma.com/books/tfst/appi1.htm<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Savarkar was in his younger days when he authored this book, it was banned by the British gov't but printed clandestinely, I think it went through 4 reprints by 1947, even Bose had it reprinted and given to his INA soldiers, it was also translated into Tamil then (since there were many INA volunteers who came from Madras Presidency).
I don't know if he ever disowned the book but as time went by his perspective on the Hindu-Muslim question changed just like Lala Lajpat Rai changed, he saw the events preceding partition (such as the Moplah riots or the Kohat riots) as a warning to the Hindus and also adopted the two nation theory because he felt that a nation cannot be built from two communities mutually antagonistic towards each other and with their inspiration derived from opposite sources (Shivaji for Hindus vs Ghazni or Aurangzeb for Muslims).
The only difference was that he would not accept partition because he felt that this land was essentially a Hindu homeland, but he was ready for the principle of "one man, one vote" and saw no further use for all this hoopla about "minority rights".
The book is available online at:
http://dli.iiit.ac.in/cgi-bin/Browse/scrip...e=2020050057563
Goel has this to say about this book:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->32 This jihãd which was joined by Hindu rebellions on the fringes was named as The Indian War of Independence, 1857 (London, 1909) by V.D. Savarkar. He had yet to learn the history of Islam in India. It is significant that âsecularistsâ and Muslim who hate Savarkar, hail the book as well as its name.
http://voiceofdharma.com/books/tfst/appi1.htm<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Savarkar was in his younger days when he authored this book, it was banned by the British gov't but printed clandestinely, I think it went through 4 reprints by 1947, even Bose had it reprinted and given to his INA soldiers, it was also translated into Tamil then (since there were many INA volunteers who came from Madras Presidency).
I don't know if he ever disowned the book but as time went by his perspective on the Hindu-Muslim question changed just like Lala Lajpat Rai changed, he saw the events preceding partition (such as the Moplah riots or the Kohat riots) as a warning to the Hindus and also adopted the two nation theory because he felt that a nation cannot be built from two communities mutually antagonistic towards each other and with their inspiration derived from opposite sources (Shivaji for Hindus vs Ghazni or Aurangzeb for Muslims).
The only difference was that he would not accept partition because he felt that this land was essentially a Hindu homeland, but he was ready for the principle of "one man, one vote" and saw no further use for all this hoopla about "minority rights".