Review: When RSS icon Golwalkar claimed authorship of G D Savarkar's books

The original Marathi version was published in 1934, but when Golwalkar began translating it, copies of the [original] book were withdrawn and hence unavailable to readers

One of the reasons that [Madhav Sadashiv] Golwalkar’s elevation (as RSS general secretary in 1939) was accepted without any demur was because of his image of an ideologue-thinker. Apart from his ascetic-like appearance and various sojourns to ashrams, Golwalkar had taken upon himself to translate G.D. (aka Babarao) Savarkar’s book in Marathi titled, Rashtra Mimansa, into English, which was published in March 1939 as We or Our Nationhood Defined.
 
Although this proved to be a significant milestone in his career, for some strange reason, Golwalkar denied the authorship to Savarkar [who was Veer Savarkar’s brother] and instead claimed the