Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ( called Vir [ Veer ] Savarkar; Marathi: विनायक दामोदर सावरकर, Vinayak Damodar Sāvarakar; born May 28, 1883 Bhagur village in Nashik, † February 26, 1966 in Nagpur, Maharashtra ) was an Indian politician. He developed a Hindu nationalist political ideology, which he called Hindutva.

Savarkar was studying in India and England and represented revolutionary ideas of a violent struggle for the attainment of Indian independence. He published The Indian War of Independence, a treatise on the Indian rebellion of 1857 that was banned by the British colonial rulers. 1910 Savarkar was arrested for his connection to the revolutionary group India House. He was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment and brought to the Andaman Islands in a prison.

In prison, he described the Hindutva idea of ​​an open Hindu nationalism. In 1921, he was discharged under the restriction to stop his revolutionary activities. Savarkar sat down but for a Hindu - dominated India, traveled and lectured. He was president of the newly formed Hindu Mahasabha and a vehement critic of the Indian National Congress and its acceptance of the partition of India. Critics consider his appearance for the cause of several attacks on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was arrested in this connection, however, acquitted for lack of evidence. He spent his final years writing about his idea of ​​Hindutva.

The airport in Port Blair is named after him ( Vir Savarkar Airport ).