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Context
- Central Information Commissioner (CIC) Uday Mahurkar said the era of V D Savarkar, known as the architect of Hindutva ideology, has already set in in India and that his personality is above Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honour.
About
- 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 Italy"
- 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.