Ganesh Dāmodar Sāvarkar (13 June 1879 – 16 March 1945), also called Babarao Savarkar, was an Indian revolutionary, activist and co-founder of the

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Early life

Ganesh was the eldest of the Savarkar brothers, Ganesh,

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, and Narayan, they also had a sister Mainabai, who was the penultimate child of their parents, Narayan being the youngest. His parents' death laid the liability of his family at an age of twenty years.

Independence activism

He led an armed movement against the British colonial government in India, he was sentenced to transportation for life as a result. The then collector of

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was assassinated by

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in retaliation.

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describes Jackson as "part of the oppressive machinery of the British Empire" and "...responsible for deporting Babarao..."

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writes that "The five friends who started the

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were

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L. V. Paranjpe Laxman Vasudev Paranjape, was a member of the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), along with its first Sarsanghchalak, K. B. Hedgewar. Paranjape also served as the acting Sarsanghchalak, when Hedgewar went to ja ...

, Dr. Tholkar, Babarao Savarkar and

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himself". Rity Kohli writes that Savarkar's essay on nationalism "Rashtra Mimansa" was abridged into "We, and our Nationhood, Defined", by

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, in 1938, which was the first systematic statement of the

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ideology.

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