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1 An Anticolonial Revolutionary: Savarkar and the Colonial Police

Surveillance

The Savarkar Police File

2 A Fearful Demagogue: Savarkar and the Muslim Question

The Indian National Context

What Was the Caliphate in Theory and Practice?

World War I and Mustafa Kemal's Abolition of the Caliphate

The Khilafat and What It Meant to Indian Muslims

The Khilafat Movement (1918-24)

Gandhi and the Khilafat

Savarkar and the Muslim Question

Conclusion

3 A Social Reformer: Savarkar and Caste

Non-Brahmin and Anti-untouchability Movements

in Maharashtra in the 1920s

Savarkar Returns to India

Savarkar and Viţāļvēda

Savarkar and Sanatan Dharma

Savarkar and Varna

Savarkar and Brahminism
Savarkar and Ritualism, Temple Destruction, and Cow Worship

Savarkar and Intermarriage

Savarkar and Temple Entry Genetics and the Hindu Body

Conclusion

4 A Nation's Bard: Savarkar the Poet

Savarkar's Education in Poetry

Savarkar's Poems

Povādās

Sahira Tulshidas's Povādā

Sahira Savarkar's Povādā

Conclusion

5 A Nationalist Historian: Savarkar and the Past

Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar: Hindu Nationalism without Hindutva

Savarkar's The Indian War of Independence and Hindu-Pad-Padashahi

Essentials of Hindutva

Hindu-Pad-Padashahi

1857, Essentials of Hindutva, Hindu-Pad-Padashahi, and Six Glorious Epochs

Conclusion

6 A Legend in His Own Time: Savarkar and His Hagiography

Savarkar's First Memorialization

Savarkar's Mājhyā Athavani and Gandhi's My Experiments with Truth

Hagiobiography

Memories of Savarkar: The Darśana-Dakşiņā Literature

Conclusion