Savarkar before Hindutva: Sovereignty, Republicanism, and Populism in India, c.1900–1920
@article{Visana2021SavarkarBH, title={Savarkar before Hindutva: Sovereignty, Republicanism, and Populism in India, c.1900–1920}, author={Vikram Visana}, journal={Modern Intellectual History}, year={2021}, volume={18}, pages={1106 - 1129} }
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was the theorizer of Hindutva (1923)—the project to radically reconfigure India as a Hindu majoritarian state. Assessments of Savarkar's earlier The Indian War of Independence (1909), a history of the 1857 Indian “Mutiny,” have generally subsumed this tract into the logic of Hindutva. This article offers a reassessment of The Indian War of Independence and situates it within the political and intellectual context of fin de siècle western India. I suggest that this…
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