Vinayak Damodar Savarkar: Fountainhead of fundamentalism in India May 28, 2023 https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/veer-savarkar-myth-in-indian-freedom-struggle-by-tamil-writer-jeyamohan/article66903378.ece Savarkar called for an armed rebellion against the British and made preparations for it. He was not grounded by a sense of either reality or history. He had no understanding of the power of the great administrative machinery of the British or their massive army. Lacking a sense of history, he failed to see that the British government drew its power from the popular acceptance it had gained from the millions of Indian people it ruled over.
Before the advent of Gandhi, during Savarkar’s era, some “intellectuals” believed that the British could be driven out using violent means. Once a violent struggle was initiated, they thought people would join in the riots to destroy the British. Fifty years later, tragically, the naxalites too shared the same belief and modus operandi. Savarkar, Bhagat Singh, and Subhash Chandra Bose were all people with a similar misapprehension of history. Their rebellion was a childish effort completely based on their belief in violence and a misbegotten sense of personal adventure. Their misplaced confidence came from imagining themselves to be extraordinary men capable of determining history. Essentially, it stemmed from a lack of faith in the great power of the people.
https://www.rediff.com/news/interview/savarkar-was-granted-a-pension-by-the-british/20211014.htm Tushar Gandhi interview, quoting from his book Let's Kill Gandhi, .. what you do at the end of your life makes you what you are and what Savarkar did at the end of his life was he was a collaborationist with the British colonial regime and was a part of Mahatma Gandhi's murder conspiracy.
He was granted a pension by the British till 1947 and was given a home in Ratnagiri where he was confined. He was provided sustenance by the British. And at many times he wrote to the British that he needed an increase in pension, which is a fact and I am not alleging anything on my own.