HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Solitary Confinement, Israel Weapon Industries
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Waging war against the king -> now seen as political enemy. Arrest warrants out for those in india house + young indian society. Savarkar goes back to london so that he could get arrested -> wanted to argue his case in court + be publicized. Problem: decide that they want to try him in india -> do not need evidence to convict. Some of individuals who fought in 1857 were put in the same prison. Got to meet the individuals who rebelled. Spent 14 years doing hard labor + some time in solitary confinement. Literate individuals were reading about colonies of the empire in newspaper. Convicted + sentenced to 2 life terms. Savarkar and the indian war of independence of 1957. Mutiny by soldiers on may 10, 1857. Impact of british policies on princely states. First to rebel were soldiers who attacked british officers. May 10, 1857-1859: about 1,300 articles on mutiny + india.
