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Synopsis Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1833-1966) was the first to call 1857" The Indian War of Independence." His book of the same title was published in 1909. It was immediately prescribed. It finally appeared in 1946. The original text was in Marathi. The author was 24 years old when he wrote his magnum opus. Savarkar's book has one remarkable feature--it is fiercely secular. Two quotations will do. Savarkar rites: "So, in the truer sense, we said that the raising of Bahadur Shah to the throne of India was no restoration at all. But rather it was the declaration that the longstanding was between the Hindu and the Mahomedan had ended... For, Bahadur Shah was raised by the free voice of the people, both Hindus and Mahomedans, civil and military, to be their emperor and the head of the war of independence... Let, then, Hindus and Mahomedans send forth their hearty, conscientious, and most loyal homage to this elected or freely accepted emperor of their native soil on the 11th of May, 1857." This book will flash more light on his life and works.