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  DESCRIPTION  As the intellectual originator of Hindutva ideology that is experiencing political dominance in India today, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is undoubtedly one of the most controversial thinkers and political leaders of the 20th century. The stories of his prosperous and stormy life ranged from the exaltation of the saintly life to the exaltation of Satanism. The truth, as always, lies somewhere in the middle and unfortunately never appears. Savarkar and his ideology stood as a strong and dangerous opponent of Gandhi and his pacifist philosophy and the Indian National Congress, a strong atheist and rationalist who rejected orthodox Hindu beliefs, opposed inter-caste marriage and encouraged food act, and rejected. Cow worship was a myth, and Savarkar was the Hindu community's most effective political voice during India's struggle for freedom. As a law student in London since the days of the violent revolution, Savarkar finding himself unjustly imprisoned and tried for tr

  DESCRIPTION  Dalrymple is a brilliant historian with a deep understanding of India. The Book of Beauty - Gerard Degrout, The Times In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to set up a new administration in his rich counties ruled by English merchants, supported by a ruthless private army. Taxes were collected. What we would now call the process of involuntary privatization, the founders of the chartered East India Company gave it the right to 'fight war' and it always used violence to achieve its goals. But the creation of this new regime marked the moment when the East India Company ceased to be a traditional international trading company trading silk and spices and became something even stranger: a multinational corporation in the guise of Aggressive colonial power. In less than four decades, he trained a security force of some 200,000 men - twice the size of the British army - and conquered the entire subcontinent, first Benga