Savarkar claimed that despite his ‘conversion’, Dr Ambedkar remained a Hindu because he had ‘embraced a non-Vedic but Indian religious system within the orbit of Hindutva,’ and this was not a ‘change of faith.’ Savarkar’s response was indeed consistent with his life-long definition of nationalism–whose pitribhoomi and punyabhoomi were within the territorial boundaries of India, they were Hindus.
