In terms of contrasts, while Savarkar stood for modernity and science, separation of ritualistic religion from politics, militarization and dismantling the caste system, Gandhi spoke in terms of faith, religion and ahimsa, approved of the caste system in principle, and had not much time or appetite for science. With economic liberalization, the Pokhran nuclear tests, our space conquests and rapid urbanization instead of gram swaraj—not to speak of course of the ascendant political right in India today that claims its ideological lineage from him—it is perhaps Savarkar’s vision of India that is
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