Veer Savarkar

GS PAPER I: Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant events, personalities, issues.

Context: PM pays tributes to Veer Savarkar on his jayanti.

Vinayak Damodar (veer) Savarkar

• He was an Indian independence activist and politician who formulated the Hindu nationalist philosophy of Hindutva.
• He was a leading personality in the Hindu Mahasabha.
• Savarkar was deeply influenced by the 19th-century Italian revolutionary, Giuseppe Mazzini. Savarkar framed his secret societies, Mitra Mela and Abhinav Bharat society on Mazzini's model of "Young Itlay"
• He and his brother founded a secret society called Abhinav Bharat Society.
• He wrote the “The Indian War of Independence” book about the Indian rebellion of 1857 that was banned by the British authorities.

https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1722343