Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

Janaki Bakhle, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley discuss her new book, "Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva."

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883–1966) was an intellectual, ideologue and anticolonial nationalist leader in India’s struggle for independence from British colonial rule, one whose anti-Muslim writings exploited India’s tensions in pursuit of Hindu majority rule. "Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva" is the first comprehensive intellectual history of one of the most contentious political thinkers of the twentieth century.

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Program in South Asian Studies (OWNER)

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