Who was Veer Savarkar?
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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (About this soundpronunciation (help·info); 28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966), popularly known as Veer Savarkar ("brave" in his native Marathi language),[2] was an Indian independence activist, politician, lawyer, writer, and the formulator of the Hindutva philosophy.
As a response to the Muslim league, Savarkar joined the Hindu Mahasabha[6] and popularized the term Hindutva (Hinduness), previously coined by Chandranath Basu,[7] to create a collective "Hindu" identity as an essence of Bharat (India).[8][9] Savarkar was also a pragmatic practitioner of Hindu Philosophy. He advocated for validating religious myths/blind faith against the test of modern science. In that sense he also was a rationalist and reformer.
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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ( pronunciation (help. info); 28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966), popularly known as Veer Savarkar ("brave" in his native Marathi language), was an Indian independence activist, politician, lawyer, writer, and the formulator of the Hindutva philosophy.