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About the Book

In the “Essentials of Hindutva” Savarkar seeks to describe the characteristics of Hindu identity. His work is an attempt to answer the question— Who is a Hindu? by providing a definition of Hindutva or Hinduness. This book also became the source of the principles that shaped the ideology of Hindu Nationalism in the 1920’s and the term is widely employed today to describe various expressions of the Hindu nationalist movement. 

About the Author

Veer Savarkar was a freedom fighter, politician, lawyer, social reformer, and formulator of the philosophy of Hindutva. In first phase Savarkar was revolutionary freedom fighter but he turned towards Hindu cultural and political nationalism in next phase of his life. He joined the Hindu Mahasabha and popularized the term Hindutva to create a collective Hindu identity as an essence of Bharat.