Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966

by Vikram Sampath

Notably, at a Shivaji Jayanti function in Nasik in 1924, Veer Wamanrao Joshi, the famous Marathi journalist and playwright, gave Savarkar the honorific of ‘Swatantrya Veer’ or ‘The Valorous Soldier of Freedom’.