{"product_id":"book-dn6p","title":"Savarkar Vol 1 (Part 2)","description":"As the   intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political   ascendancy in India today, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is undoubtedly one of the   most contentious political thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century.   Accounts of his eventful and stormy life have oscillated from eulogizing   hagiographies to disparaging demonization. The truth, as always, lies   somewhere in between and has unfortunately never been brought to light.   Savarkar and his ideology stood as one of the strongest and most virulent   opponents of Gandhi, his pacifist philosophy and the Indian National   Congress.\u003cbr\u003e An alleged atheist and a staunch rationalist who opposed orthodox Hindu   beliefs, encouraged inter-caste marriage and dining, and dismissed cow   worship as mere superstition, Savarkar was, arguably, the most vocal   political voice for the Hindu community through the entire course of India's   freedom struggle. From the heady days of revolution and generating   international support for the cause of India's freedom as a law student in   London, Savarkar found himself arrested, unfairly tried for sedition,   transported and incarcerated at the Cellular Jail, in the Andamans, for over   a decade, where he underwent unimaginable torture.\u003cbr\u003e From being an optimistic advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity in his treatise on   the 1857 War of Independence, what was it that transformed him in the   Cellular Jail to a proponent of 'Hindutva', which viewed Muslims with   suspicion?\u003cbr\u003e Drawing from a vast range of original archival documents across India and   abroad, this biography in two parts-the first focusing on the years leading   up to his incarceration and eventual release from the Kalapani-puts Savarkar,   his life and philosophy in a new perspective and looks at the man with all   his achievements and failings.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49329048060208,"sku":"BDdn6p","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/537879-dn6p-Square.jpg?v=1733734066","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dn6p","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}