Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Indian politician and ideologue (1883–1966)

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966) was an Indian politician and ideologue. He developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva in his 1923 pamphlet entitled Essentials of Hindutva, published while he was incarcerated at Ratnagiri. Savarkar began his political activities as a high school student and continued at Fergusson College in Pune.

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