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| Released from Belgaum Jail |
February 10, 1949: Savarkar
was acquitted, but not allowed to walk out free in Delhi. The Delhi Magistrate
served an order prohibiting Savarkar from leaving the Red Fort area
immediately. A few hours later by another order under Punjab Public Security
Measures Act, Savarkar was expelled from Delhi and escorted by police straight
to Savarkar Sadan, Mumbai. Additionally, he was prohibited from entering the
Delhi area for a period of three months.
· His honor was not
reinstated.
· Savarkar, the veteran
of fifty years of service in the freedom movement of India, was imprisoned one
more time in free India at age sixty-seven—on
April 4, 1950, he was arrested on the
eve of arrival of Pakistani Prime Minister Liaquat Ali in Delhi and detained in
Belgaum jail for 100 days.
· Nehru, who admitted to
his friend and biographer Mosley, that perhaps they had conceded Pakistan from
fear of going to jail in their old age, imprisoned Savarkar twice, on unjust
charges, without any compunction whatsoever.
· From here on till
death and beyond Savarkar has been deliberately maligned, misrepresented, and misunderstood.
History of the Congress—in its edited and doctored form—was represented as the
history of the Indian freedom movement; Savarkar was all but deleted from it.
Anyone daring to stand up for him had to suffer Governmental consequences.
· Nevertheless,
Savarkar continued to look out for India stoically.
· He warned the
Governments of the time about the dangers of China and Pakistan (including the
Tashkent Agreement.)
·
He gave scholarly
lectures on the Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History.
·
February 26, 1966:
Savarkar gave up his life by giving up food and water in the highest traditions
of Yoga satisfied that he had carried out all his duties in this life.
“अनादि मी अनंत मी, अवध्य मी भला,
मारिल रिपु जगतिं असा कवण जन्माला
Without beginning
nor end am I, inviolable am I.
Vanquish me? In this world no such enemy is born!”
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