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Savarkar started receiving ₹60 a month stipend from the British government on 1 August 1929. He kept receiving it till 1937.
In this same period, Chandrashekhar Azad died fighting in February 1931.
Bhagat Singh was hanged in March 1931. The stipend kept coming.
Now here is the thing. Savarkar was not a Gandhian. He didn't believe in non-violence or quiet suffering. His entire claimed identity was built on armed, violent revolution.
He, as they Sanghis say, allegedly inspired a generation of young men to pick up guns against the British.
Those young men were killed by the British. And he kept on collecting his British paycheck.
And the title "Veer" that precedes his name in every BJP speech, every government textbook, every Hindutva WhatsApp forward.
Nobody gave him that title. No movement conferred it. No contemporary bestowed it, Like Bose called Gandhi ji Rashtrapita in 1944.
Savarkar gave it to himself.
Which is, honestly, the most honest summary of a Hindutva Icon.

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