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22nd Session of Hindu Mahasabha at Madura, 1940. Quoted in Shamsul Islam, RSS Primer: Based On Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Documents (2010), p. 8.
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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (May 28, 1883 – February 26, 1966) was an Indian politician and ideologue. Savarkar developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva while confined at Ratnagiri in 1923. The prefix "Veer" (meaning 'brave') was given by himself when he penned his own biography under the pseudonym Chitragupta. He was a leading figure in the Hindu Mahasabha.
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