Political Science · Indian Political Thought
UGC NET 2023 Political Science
Who wrote the book 'The Indian War of Independence of 1857'?
ABal Gangadhar Tilak
BManmohan Singh
CSwami Vivekananda
DV.D. Savarkar ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) V.D. Savarkar — V.D. Savarkar wrote 'The Indian War of Independence of 1857', so he is the answer.
Explanation
★V.D. Savarkar wrote 'The Indian War of Independence of 1857', so he is the answer.
★The work gives a nationalist interpretation of the 1857 uprising, which British historians called the Sepoy Mutiny.
★Savarkar portrayed 1857 not as scattered mutinies but as a coordinated, united struggle for independence.
★This framing made it one of the first books to claim 1857 as India's first war of independence.
★The British banned the book even before its publication, fearing its revolutionary influence.
★Tilak, Manmohan Singh and Vivekananda are distractors with no authorship of this work.
★Savarkar wrote it during his years in London, drawing on his revolutionary convictions.
★Savarkar was sentenced in 1911 to fifty years in the Cellular Jail of the Andamans in the Nasik Conspiracy Case.
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