Now a Days, BJP IT Cell and RSS/BJP
Supporters spreading wildly in social medias, which treat Sarvarkar as a patriot
and a great freedom fighter. This is a massive campaign by them to spread the
Fake Indian Independence History and they claim that they are the real
independence fighters which most of the people treats as a joke. Here I’m
trying to expose a few facts about their “Veer” Savarkar and explaining WHY SAVARKAR IS NEITHER A ROLE MODEL NOR A
PATRIOT.
The information collected from various
credible web sites and the books and it will present here as 2 parts.
Why Savarkar is
not a Role Model?
According to the great Historian Professor Bipan Chandra (From an interview by Tara Shankar Sahay- Rediff.com), he explains why Savarkar is not a role model to any Indians below,
Why?
1. His Apology To British
While Savarkar was in Andaman Jail, he apologized,
he begged for clemency from the British government. He told the British if
they released him he would tell his followers that the path he was following
was wrong. Therefore, Savarkar's breaking down means he can no longer be
seen as a role model.
2. His is
not participate on hunger strike in Andamans Jail
Trilokya
Nath Chakravarthy, a famous Bengali revolutionary, who was in Andamans jail along with
Savarkar, written in his autobiography that Savarkar told them to go on a
hunger strike which they did. But Savarkar himself did not join it.
Chakravarthy told him, 'How dare you not join us when you have instigated us.'
(Savarkar himself admits this incident in his autobiography)
Now what did Savarkar do when he was released?
1. He still
wanted to be a prominent person : Become Communalist
Firstly, he accepted humiliating
conditions including his non-participation in politics. But even after all this;
he still wanted to be a prominent person. So Savarkar chose to become a
communalist (even though Savarkar was an atheist).
This was the only political channel open to him. By the way, it was the reason
why Jinnah turned to virulent communalism.
2. He
started the hate Campaign : Gandhi as Anti-National and Anti-Hindu
In 1937, he even adduced the theory of
two nations. The interesting thing is, very few people knew about his Hindutva
part. Once Gandhiji became aware of this, he said his politics and that of
Savarkar were totally different. It was Savarkar and Golwarkar who declared
Gandhi as anti-Hindu.
Savarkar regularly criticised Gandhi and his “obsession for Hindu-Muslim unity”. They carried out a campaign that Gandhi
was anti-national and anti-Hindu and that he was a lover of Islam and wanted
India Islamized, his non-violence meant disarming the Hindus.
What happened after that?
The hatred against Gandhiji was spread
by the RSS and Savarkar who was an important leader of the Hindu Mahasabha. The
important point is not whether Savarkar organized the conspiracy to assassinate
Gandhiji. What is important is Savarkar was the theoretician of Hindutva, its
ideology.
This interview was published on their
site dated on March 03- 2003.
Now we can look what his Co-Prisoners
tell about him.
What his co-prisoners in Andamans and other Freedom fighters/Historians
say about Sarvarkar?
Freedom fighters, historians oppose
Savarkar as recognition as a patriot and freedom fighter. Vishwanath
Mathur, one of the two prisoners in the Andamans and who was there with
Savarkar, brought out these facts in his book and he called Savarkar as “coward being portrayed as a revolutionary”.
He said Not only did he beg for mercy from the British and was an accused in
the Mahatma Gandhi assassination case, he was also a proponent of the two
nation theory.
The anti-communalism group, Sahmat,
said Savarkar's claim to recognition as a patriot and freedom fighter,
"ended ignominiously within months of his incarceration in the Cellular
Jail in the Andaman Islands." He sent mercy petitions to the British
authorities in 1911 promising "the
staunchest loyalty to the British Government" in exchange for his
release. Savarkar, in the petition, also expressed his willingness to "serve the [British] Government in any
capacity".
Savarkar, Who Demands Two Nation Theory First: Divide INDIA into Two
The Delhi Historians Group said that
Savarkar also propounded the two-nation theory.
In 1937,
he was elected president of the Hindu Mahasabha. While addressing the 19th
session of the Mahasabha in Ahmedabad, he declared: “There are two antagonistic nations living side by side in India.
Several infantile politicians commit the serious mistake in supposing that
India is already welded into a harmonious nation, or that it could be welded
thus for the mere wish to do so…. India cannot be assumed today to be a Unitarian
and homogenous nation. On the contrary, there are two nations in the main: the
Hindus and the Muslims, in India.”
He wrote "I warn the Hindus that
the Mohammedans are likely to prove dangerous to our Hindu Nation. We Hindus
must have a country of our own in the Solar system."
Thus, the theory of two nations, first
proposed in Essentials of Hindutva, was passed as a resolution of the Mahasabha
in 1937. Three years later, the All-India Muslim League, led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, adopted the
concept in its Lahore session. In 1943, he declared that he "has no
quarrel with Mr. Jinnah" on this subject.
Role in Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination
Savarkar, named as a conspirator in
Mahatma Gandhi's assassination, was not convicted, not because of lack of
evidence but because of a "technicality".
1. Sardar Patel’s Letter
In a letter to Jawaharlal Nehru on
February 27, 1948, Sardar Patel, then Deputy Prime Minister, wrote:
"It was a fanatical wing of the Hindu Mahasabha directly under Savarkar that hatched the conspiracy and saw it through."………
2. Savarkar’s Aides Confession
Only a year or two after Savarkar’s
death, his aides spoke up before the Justice J.L. Kapur Commission (was a
distinguished and former judge of the Supreme Court.) on Gandhi’s murder and
provided ample corroboration of Badge’s evidence. The Commission’s report
notes:
“The statement of Appa Ramchandra Kasar, bodyguard of V.D. Savarkar, which was recorded by the Bombay Police on 4th March, 1948, shows that even in 1946 Apte and Godse were frequent visitors of Savarkar and Karkare also sometimes visited him…. In August 1947, when Savarkar went to Poona in connection with a meeting, Godse and Apte were always with Savarkar, and were discussing with him the future policy of the Hindu Mahasabha, and he told them that he himself was getting old and they would have to carry on the work. In the beginning of August 1947, on the 5th or 6th, there was an All India Hindu convention at Delhi and Savarkar, Godse and Apte travelled together by plane. At the convention the Congress policies were strongly criticised. On 11th August, Savarkar, Godse and Apte all returned to Bombay together by plane…. On or about 13th or 14th January [1948], Karkare came to Savarkar with a Punjabi youth and they had an interview with Savarkar for about 15 or 20 minutes. On or about 15th or 16th Apte and Godse had an interview with Savarkar at 9-30 p.m. After about a week or so, may be 23rd or 24th January, Apte and Godse again came to Savarkar and had a talk with him at about 10 or 10-30 a.m. for about half an hour....."
3. Statement of Jamshed Nagarvala, Deputy Commissioner of Police
……Justice Kapur’s findings are all too clear. After listing the information available to Nagarvala, he concluded: “ All these facts taken together were destructive of any theory other than the conspiracy to murder by Savarkar and his group. In his crime Report No. 1, Nagarvala (Jamshed Nagarvala, Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the Bombay Criminal Investigation Department’s (CID) Special Branch Sections One and Two) had stated that ‘Savarkar was at the back of the conspiracy and that he was feigning illnesses. Nagarvala’s letter of January 31, 1948, the day after the assassination, mentioned that Savarkar, Godse and Apte met for 40 minutes ‘on the eve of their departure to Delhi’ on the strength of what Kasar and Damle disclosed to him. These two had access to the house of Savarkar without any restriction. In short, Godse and Apte met Savarkar again, in the absence of Badge and in addition to their meetings on January 14 and 17 (page 132).
4. Justice J.L. Kapur commission Findings
On March 22, 1965, a commission of
inquiry was set up, with former Supreme Court judge J.L. Kapur as its chairman, to investigate the conspiracy in
Gandhi’s assassination. The commission found that Godse was a “frequent visitor of Savarkar” and that “people who were subsequently involved in the
murder of Mahatma Gandhi were all congregating sometime or the other at
Savarkar Sadan and sometimes had long interviews with Savarkar”.
Kapur’s findings established that
Savarkar was indeed involved in the conspiracy to kill Gandhi. Gajanan Vishnu
Damle, Savarkar’s private secretary, and Appa Kasar, his bodyguard, deposed
before the commission and accepted their knowledge of Savarkar’s involvement in
the conspiracy to kill Gandhi. In its report, which came out in 1969, the
commission concluded: “All these facts taken together were
destructive of any theory other than the conspiracy to murder by Savarkar and
his group.”
The report, however, came too late.
Savarkar died on February 26, 1966, weeks after he stopped taking food and
medicines.
Savarkar’s Apologizing letter to British Government
The burden of his petitions:
let me go and I will give up the fight for independence and be loyal to
the colonial government.
Shamsul
Islam, historian and former professor at Delhi University, writes in his book
Hindutva: Savarkar Unmasked: “Savarkar’s nine years and ten months in the
Cellular Jail did not enhance or deepen his anti-imperialistic inclinations. In
fact, it ended it. The conditions in jail were indeed inhuman, but hardly any
other freedom fighter in the Cellular Jail surrendered or submitted to the
British [like Savarkar did].”
Savarkar had filed his first appeal for
clemency on August 30, 1911, barely two months after his arrival in Andaman. “Solitary confinement meant that he was to
remain inside the cell,” said Islam. “No
hard or light work was allotted to him. It broke him within two months, unlike
any other prisoner.” For many months, he worked in the jail’s rope-making
unit, the lightest work a prisoner could hope for at Kalapani.
Craddock, in a note to the governor general
dated November 23, 1913, wrote: “[Savarkar] affects to have changed his
views, urging that the hopeless condition of Indians in 1906-07 was his
‘excuse’ for entering upon a conspiracy… He was willing and anxious to send an
open letter to the native press explaining his change of views…. He pressed me
hard to give him some promise, or to record something that would give him
hope.”
Savarkar
filed his third mercy petition on September 14, 1914, soon after World War I
broke out. “I most humbly beg to offer
myself as a volunteer to do any service in the present war, that the Indian government
thinks fit to demand from me,” he wrote. “I know that a Kingdom does not depend
on the help of an insignificant individual like me, but then I know also that
every individual, however insignificant, is duty-bound to volunteer his or her
best for the defence of that Kingdom.”
Savarkar
submitted his fourth petition on October 2, 1917; fifth mercy petition on
January 24, 1920, and the sixth on March 30, 1920.
Savarkar had begged the British for
mercy and described himself as a ''prodigal
son'' longing to return to the ''parental
doors of the government''.
Savarkar,
along with his elder brother, was finally released from the Cellular Jail on
May 2, 1921. He had served nine years and ten months.
From his apology letter,
……….“Therefore if the government in their manifold beneficence and mercy release me, I for one cannot but be the staunchest advocate of constitutional progress and loyalty to the English government which is the foremost condition of that progress”……..
……“Moreover my conversion to the constitutional line would bring back all those misled young men in India and abroad who were once looking up to me as their guide. I am ready to serve the Government in any capacity they like, for as my conversion is conscientious so I hope my future conduct would be. By keeping me in jail nothing can be got in comparison to what would be otherwise.The Mighty alone can afford to be merciful and therefore where else can the prodigal son return but to the parental doors of the Government?Hoping your Honour will kindly take into notion these points.
V.D. SAVARKAR
(From R.C. Majumdar, Penal
Settlements in the Andamans, Publications Division, 1975)
This is the end of Part:1
In Part:2, we are going to describe the below topics,
Click Here to open Part:2
>Savarkar against Quit India Movement
>Hindu Mahasabha led by ‘Veer’ Savarkar ran coalition governments with Muslim League in 1942
>Savarkar against Subhash Chandra Bose
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