Becoming Hindu is not the same as being Hindu – Makarand R. Paranjape

Reading Savarkar, I saw that it was not Hindu self-assertion but Muslim partitionism that gave Hindutva its raison d’être. Savarkar himself had proposed … a unified Hindu–Muslim armed revolution in the Indian War of Independence of 1857. … What made him switch to the extreme suspicion of political Islam, if not an outright anti-Islamist standpoint? […]