After his release from detention, Savarkar may have been every bit a demagogue while addressing public meetings to draw people into the Hindu Mahasabha, but he quietly put the spirit of revolutionary nationalism behind him. This obvious change in his strategy was quite simply the result of the loss of freedom he had faced over two and a half decades, and at no cost did he wish to repeat it. Moreover, his political stance had altered dramatically over the years, and anti-Colonialism was no longer central to it. Although he did not state it categorically, but it nevertheless became evident in
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