A new book examines VD Savarkar’s project to establish Hindutva not as an ideology but as history

An excerpt from ‘Hindutva and Violence: VD Savarkar and the Politics of History’, by Vinayak Chaturvedi.

Vinayak Chaturvedi

· Jul 21, 2022 · 08:30 am

Would VD Savarkar have condoned plagiarism?

‘Would Savarkar have allowed anyone to copy parts of one of his essays, change a few words, retitle it, republish it, and then claim them as their own?’

Vinayak Chaturvedi

· Feb 24, 2022 · 08:30 am

Reading Savarkar: Was the Hindutva icon actually Hinduphobic?

He argued that Hinduism was inferior in comparison to Hindutva and that it was ‘more limited, less satisfactory and essentially a sectarian term’.

Vinayak Chaturvedi

· Sep 06, 2021 · 06:30 am

Hardik Patel is right: The truth about Patidars can be found in Gujarat’s villages, not US motels

But if it is truth that he wants, he should look beyond the condition of just Patidars and at the state of all Gujarat peasants.

Vinayak Chaturvedi

· Aug 29, 2015 · 09:15 am