Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician (born 1883)

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Indian political activist and writer (1883–1966)

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was an Indian politician, activist, and writer. Savarkar developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva while confined at Ratnagiri in 1922. The prefix "Veer" has been given by himself, when he penned his own biography under the pseudonym…