Tag: PartitionOfBengal
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In the history of India’s Swadeshi movement, it was Vinayak Damodar (Veer) Savarkar, not ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi, who first organized a public bonfire of foreign goods. A fact which gets often sidelined or ignored by ‘biased INC’ historians. In 1905, when he was in his early twenties, Vinayak Damodar (Veer) Savarkar became a passionate student leader…
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Every year, 7 September is observed as Vande Mataram Day, commemorating the pivotal role of this iconic song in India’s struggle for independence. The date recalls the decision of the Indian National Congress (INC) in 1905 to adopt Vande Mataram at the height of the Swadeshi Movement against the Partition of Bengal. More than a…
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Savarkar’s Coding of Hindutva; Metacode Rashtra, Part 5; Code Territorium (4/6); Codeelement Des, Indivisibility of the Territory (1/3) When Vinayak Damodar (Veer) Savarkar spoke of nationalism, he did not imagine it in narrow or regional terms. Instead, he envisioned a pan-Indian nationalism that stretched across the entire subcontinent—bounded naturally by the Himalayas in the north…