When Savarkar was unfairly tried and condemned to the dark dungeons of Kala Pani for two life terms equalling fifty long years. Gandhi was nowhere on the national scene. But by the time he was repatriated to an Indian jail in 1921, Savarkar had to contend a Gandhi who had not only returned to India but also managed to take complete control of the Congress and the nationalist struggle, especially after the death of Bal Gangadhar Tilak in 1920.
