In the Andamans, Savarkar had read the Quran first in its English and subsequently Bengali and Marathi translations. He had read a translation of the Quran even while he was a student in England. It may be noted that Savarkar was one of the few Hindu leaders who had made a deep study of Islam from its scriptures. If the critics bother to read the entire speech (available at ), it shall be evident to them that Savarkar had not advocated the two-nation theory. Savarkar stated, “India cannot be assumed today to be a unitarian and homogenous nation, but on the contrary there are two nations in the main the Hindus and the Moslems, in India. The sentence in question can be found in Savarkar’s Presidential address to the 19th session of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha at Karnavati (Ahmedabad) in 1937. Fortunately, Savarkar has himself answered the charge that he had put forth the two-nation theory. The entire case of the Savarkar-baiters rests on a solitary sentence culled out from his nearly 6000-page literature. Notwithstanding Digvijay Singh’s political compulsions in spreading this piece of disinformation, a factual rebuttal is in order. This is not the first (and one may safely assume not the last) time that Veer Savarkar has been blamed for putting forth the two-nation theory. Congress leader Digvijay Singh recently stated (26 Jan) that Savarkar had the original idea of the two-nation theory which was later adopted by Jinnah.
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