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Since his death in 1969, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar has been under studied and over simplified. Despite being a prominent socialist theorist, he has been ignored by philosophical, religious, and political fields in India. This is because he has been branded as a radical nationalist during the course of his life. His popular work “Hindutva: Who Is a Hindu?” explores the concept of Hindu Rastra and paints a specific picture of India and the Hindutva philosophy. Over the course of time, this text became the Hindu religion’s guiding document. He created the concept of Hindu Rastra, which is important to understand in this era of Hindu nationalism in Indian politics. This article makes an effort to get to the bottom of Savarkar’s philosophy of Hindutva and his book Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? in simple terms.
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