Professional Documents
Culture Documents
of
Hindutva
Veer avarkar
Essentials of Hindutva
- by V.D. Savarkar
(Sometime between 1921-22 Veer Savarkar completed his historic book “Essentials of
Hindutva” while still in Andamans. This was later published under the pseudo name ‘A
Mahratta’)
Essentials of Hindutva___________________________________________________ 1
What is in a name?__________________________________________________________ 3
What is a Hindu?___________________________________________________________ 4
Hindus, a nation____________________________________________________________ 6
Other names_______________________________________________________________ 7
International Life___________________________________________________________ 9
Fall of Buddhism___________________________________________________________ 9
Commingling of Races______________________________________________________ 13
Sindhusthan______________________________________________________________ 14
What is Arya______________________________________________________________ 15
Reverence to Buddha_______________________________________________________ 16
Hindusthani Language_____________________________________________________ 18
Foreign Invaders__________________________________________________________ 19
Hindutva at work__________________________________________________________ 20
Hindus in Sindh___________________________________________________________ 44