HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mahatma Gandhi, Israel Weapon Industries, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
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Krishnavarma was the sponsor for savarkar and formed the india house. Savarkar created the young india society, which wanted to wage a bloody battle to transform empire. The meeting with gandhi: debate on violence. There were other arrest warrants sent out for india. House and young india society, and all these individuals flee to france. Savarkar goes to london, because he wants to get arrested so he can make his stand. But when he gets back, he is arrested but is not tried in. Britain, but in india, because they don"t have enough evidence to convict him in britain. In india, you don"t need evidence to convict someone. Convicted and sentenced to 2 life terms. The prison he was put in was made in 1857, its first prisoners were the rebels of the rebellion of independence. Savarkar actually gets to meet some of the participants of the war.
