Hindu identity as a political tool

In the two chapters on Savarkar's trial and his twilight years we get to learn a lot of things we did not know

Savarkar: A Contested Legacy (1924-66)

Author: Vikram Sampath

Publisher: Penguin Viking

Pages:691

Price: Rs 1,000

Throughout the freedom movement the Congress wanted to include the Muslims in the fight against the British. But the British managed to foil that attempt.

So after the Muslim League swore ever-lasting allegiance to the British, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the subject of this biography — volume 2 — concluded that the Muslims could not be trusted politically.

He started propounding the Hindu cause even more forcefully than he had been doing till then. He said that unless the Hindus asserted themselves as a political force — just as the Muslims had done