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| David Garnett |
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| Paris, Bande Mataram, Aug 17, 1909 |
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December 1908-Jan 1909:
Babarao identified Savarkar as the writer of letters found in his possession,
and the British began weaving their web around Savarkar.
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May 1909:
copies of Government’s English translation of poems published by Babarao and
Savarkar’s letters reached London.
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June 1909:
British Government launched a successful concentrated campaign (by letters and
telegrams to the concerned authority) to discourage Benchers of Gray’s Inn from
calling Savarkar to the Bar. Eventually they were successful. Though the
charges made by the Gray’s Inn could not be proved, Savarkar was still not
permitted to practice as his activities were declared suspect. (This fact was
then later used in the argument to grant the warrant.)
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After the
assassination of Curzon Wylie, Savarkar took a public stand in Caxton Hall in
not condemning Madan Lal Dhingra and sent a letter to the Times to justify this. He published Madan Lal’s statement, squashed
by the British, in the Daily News on
August 16, 1909.
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November 1909: health
shattered, Savarkar went to Wales to recuperate. There he wrote a Marathi book
on the history of the Sikhs.
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January 1910: Savarkar
went to Paris since a warrant for his arrest was imminent.
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February 8, 1910:
a warrant was issued against Savarkar by a Bombay Magistrate on the grounds
that his offences came within the Fugitive Offenders Act of 1881. The basis for
the warrant was flimsy: (1) Savarkar’s speech of 1906, of which there was no
available transcript, and was considered innocuous at the time. (2) He was also
being extradited to Bombay for an alleged crime he had committed in 1909 in England
while living in England.
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March 13, 1910:
Savarkar returned to London to show his mettle as the leader of the
revolutionaries by squarely facing the British might and was arrested at the
station.
Briston Prison, London
- Anurupa
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