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Is it a fact that Savarkar advocated Rape as a political tool to subjugate rivals ?

Sagar Savarkar advocated responding in kind to any aggression in the name of religion. In the religious riots that followed partition, he advocated that eac…moreSavarkar advocated responding in kind to any aggression in the name of religion. In the religious riots that followed partition, he advocated that each time Hindus were killed for being Hindu, the same treatment be meted out to the aggressors.
In the same vein, he laments that kidnappings and rapes as perpetrated by cruel muslim rulers in the name of religion should have been reciprocated by Hindu kings when they won to dissuade any future action of the sort. (less)

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Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History

by V.D. Savarkar

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