Vinayak Damodar Savarkar citations

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar est une personnalité politique indienne. Il a développé une idéologie nationaliste qu'il a appelé l'Hindutva.

Bien qu'admettant un héritage culturel lié à l'hindouisme dans le cadre de son patriotisme indien , Vinayak Damodar Savarkar n'était pas un religieux hindou , mais se revendiquait de l'Athéisme , .

Accusé d'être un fasciste version indienne , Sarvakar récusa toute alliance avec les régimes oppressifs, car il s'estimait humaniste, démocrate :



« Dans le conflit des idéologies, les Hindous ont eu des positions parfaitement claires. Nous haïssons le Nazisme et le Fascisme. Nous sommes les ennemis de Hitler et Mussolini. Nous luttons fortement pour notre propre émancipation et nous voulons repousser chaque dictateur qui voudrait essayer de réduire une partie de l'humanité à l'esclavage pour servir les caprices de sa propre mégalomanie. Tout anti-impérialiste doit être un anti-fasciste. »



— Hindu Politics.

✵ 28. mai 1883 – 26. février 1966
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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar: Citations en anglais

“The epitaph of an RSS man will be: he was born, went to shakha, and died.”

Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2014). Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism. New Delhi: Rupa. p. 256

“Please wake up!
This land is calling for your help.
Are you unable to hear that pleading tone of this motherland?
Is it not piercing your heart?”

(Oh Shivaji! This land of the Aryans
has been repeatedly attacked by the Mlechchhas non-Indians).

English translation. From a poem by V. D. Savarkar, quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)

“Hindutva was a political argument made in a poetic register. It was an argument with and against an unnamed Gandhi at an opportune moment when he seemed finished with politics. Hindutva was also a political cry from behind prison walls, reminding the larger world outside that even if Gandhi was no longer on the political scene, Savarkar was back. He was still a leader, a politician capable of pulling together a nationalist community. But unlike Gandhi, he was offering a sense of Hindu-ness that could be the basis for a more genuine and, in the end, more effective nationalism than that of the Mahatma. The startling change for its time was Savarkar’s assertion that it was not religion that made Hindus Hindu. If Gandhi had officiated at the marriage of religion and politics, and Khilafat leaders were using the symbols of religion to forge a community, Savarkar argued that name and place were what bound the Hindu community, not religion . . . The fundamental (negative) contribution of Hindutva was to install a new term for nationalist discourse, one that was both modern and secular, if open to a secular understanding of religious identity. In place of religion qua religion, he secularized a plethora of Hindu religious leaders. In so doing, he did not create a sterilely secular nationalism. He did quite the opposite. He enchanted a secular nationalism by placing a mythic community into a magical land .”

Janaki Bakhle quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)

“By annihilating the wicked I lightened the great weight on the globe. I delivered the country by establishing Swarajya and by saving religion. I betook myself to shake off the great exhaustion which had come upon me. I was asleep, why then, did you my darlings awaken me?”

English translation. From the poem ‘Shivaji’s Utterances’ (and signed ‘mark of the Bhawani Sword’) which appeared in the editorial columns of the Kesari . V. D. Savarkar, quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)

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