“What to keep in mind when reading this new Biography of Savarkar”, Swarajyamag, May 11, 2024:
“Elite Marathi society was split down the middle during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. On one side were those who argued that India had to put its own house in order before it was ready for political independence. The other side argued that political power would give nationalists the means to address social ills.
Neither did the social reformers deny the eventual need for political independence nor did the political radicals dismiss the need for social reforms. The question was of sequence.
The battle of ideas was personified in the debates between two brilliant college friends in Pune, who later became bitter rivals — Gopal Ganesh Agarkar on the social reform side and Bal Gangadhar Tilak on the political agitation side……”
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