Savarkar: A 'history in full'

Violence, Dr Chaturvedi establishes, was integral to the conceptual framework of the Ghost Father of the Nation

Hindutva and Violence: V D Savarkar and the Politics of History

Author:  Vinayak Chaturvedi

Publisher: Permanent Black with Ashoka University

Pages: 463

Price: Rs 1,095

The influence of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar on India’s political discourse and narratives has steadily increased over the past three decades. Amplification of Savarkar’s influence on the polity has, however, not been matched by an understanding of the man and his works. The names of the book’s protagonist and the author’s, being the same, is not coincidental. Actually, it was this awareness of being named after Savarkar that motivated Vinayak Chaturvedi to begin examining the life and writings of a man