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About the Book

The book The Story of My Transportation for Life is written by V. D. Savarkar during his internment at Ratnagiri soon after his release from the prison in Andamans and at other places in India, where he was detained for well nigh fourteen years. The pages depict the story of the sufferings and persecutions inflicted upon the author and other political prisoners. It is the story of the great rebel’s incarceration for ten years in the Cellular-Silver- Jail of the Andamans. Vir Savarkar was sentenced by the High Court of Bombay at the end of 1910 to fifty years’ transportation to the Andamans. It is the result of his revolutionary activities in India and England. Actually he was released from that prison after a period of ten years, to finish up with his confinement in the jails at Ratnagiri and Yeravada. The story begins with his prison life at Dongri and ends with his last day in the jail at Yeravada. Hope this Book will not only make it an interesting reading material but will be appreciated by them as a historical record of the sufferings indicted upon one of the sons of India.

About the Author

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was a great Indian revolutionary and a politico-military strategist, who tried to build India militarily in order to drive out the British. In first phase of life, he was revolutionary freedom fighter but he turned towards Hindu cultural and political nationalism in second 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. Savarkar was a gifted writer who wrote high-quality poems,  novels, stories, biographies, history, essays, etc. in an engaging and convincing style. It is rarely seen that a person engaged in the freedom struggle and social reforms is an excellent author as well, and Savarkar is a living example of such rarity.