Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883–1966) Indian pro-independence activist,lawyer, politician, poet, writer and playwright
V. D. Savarkar, quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
“The practice of untouchability brutalises human self beyond repair. The nation’s energies are being destroyed by this practice, which has spiritual, moral, ethical and ideological sanction of the Hindu religion.”
"Prejudice in Manu’s India" in Deccan Chronicle (06 December 2014) http://www.deccanchronicle.com/141205/commentary-op-ed/article/prejudice-manu%E2%80%99s-india.
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