![]() ![]() The militancy of Savarkar left him and Gandhi at odds when Gandhi visited the House in October 1906. Savarkar advocated a war for independence and in 1909 his work The Indian War of Independence was published, but it was immediately banned by the British government. Savarkar also sent bomb manuals off to India. The Society held regular meetings every Sunday where they celebrated Indian festivals and patriots, discussed Indian political problems, and how to overthrow the yoke of the British in India. ![]() Savarkar soon founded the Free India Society, based on the thoughts of the Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini (Savarkar had written a biography of Mazzini). ![]() He became a protege of the founder of India House, Shyamaji Krishnavarma. He embarked for London on 9 June 1906 and arrived in London on 3 July where he immediately found lodging at India House in Highgate. He was permitted to take his BA degree and with the help of Shyamaji Krishnavarma attained a scholarship to study law at Gray's Inn in London. Here he involved himself in Indian nationalist politics before being expelled from college for his activities. He was educated at the local Shivaji High School before he enrolled in the Ferguson College, Poona, in 1902. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was born in 1883 in Bhagur village to father Damodarpant and mother Radhabai he had two brothers, Ganesh and Narayan, and a sister, Mainabai. ![]()
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