Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Birth Anniversary; Unknown Interesting Facts babout VD Savarka

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Birth

Savarkar Birth Anniversary: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was a politician, reformer, and writer of India and played a main role in the Hindu Mahasabha.

Today, May 28 we celebrate Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's birthday who passed away on February 26, 1966.

He formed the Hindu nationalist political theory of Hindutva and contributed to India's independence. He stopped the caste system in the country and asked the people who had changed their religion from Hindu, to convert their religion to Hindu again.

His followers later added the word "Veer," which means "brave," to the beginning of his name.

Check out some interesting facts about Vinayak Damodar Savarkar:

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Interesting Facts

• Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was the author of the book “The Indian War of Independence” which was banned by the British because the book was about the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
• Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was influenced by the leadership of Lokmanya Tilak
• In 1910, Savarkar was arrested by the British government and told to be sent back to India because he had ties to India House.
• Savarkar was given a fifty-year jail sentence and was sent to the Cellular Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
• Vinayak Damodar Savarkar formed the Mitra Mela to free India from the British people at the age of 16 year old.
• Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was the leader of Hindu Mahasabha, which evolved with the idea of India as a Hindu Nation.
• Savarkar protested against the spilt of Bengal in 1905, Savarkar bonfire foreign clothes along with his colleagues, when Bal Gangadhar Tilak was there.

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