Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924

by Vikram Sampath

Along with being a young revolutionary, Vinayak clearly showed signs of a social reformer who had no trouble challenging orthodoxy and established social evils.

Thus, contrary to popular narratives of dispersed activities of firebrand radicals devoid of any plan or strategy indulging in mere mindless violence and political assassinations, the emergent revolutionary movement was a planned, coordinated and a strategic one.