I hereby acknowledge that I had a fair trial and just sentence. I heartily abhor methods of violence resorted to in days gone by and I feel myself duty bound to uphold law and constitution to the best of my powers and I am willing to make the [1919 Montague-Chelmsford Reforms] a success in so far as I may be allowed to do so in future. %u201D
(from facsimile of Savarkar's letter to British authorities, Frontline, April 7, 1995. Pg. 94).
RE:@mukesh sharma, this was savarkar. U CANT DENY FACTS
by SUBHABRATA DATTA on May 07, 2007 03:18 PM Permalink
In the end, may I remind Your Honour to be so good as to go through the petition for clemency, that I had sent in 1911, and to sanction it for being forwarded to the Indian government? The latest development of the Indian politics and the conciliating policy of the government have thrown open the constitutional line once more. Now no man having the good of India and Humanity at heart will blindly step on the thorny paths which in the excited and hopeless situation of India in 1906-1907 beguiled us from the path of peace and progress. Therefore, if the government in their manifold beneficence and mercy release me, I for one cannot but be the staunchest advocate of constitutional progress and loyalty to the English government which is the foremost condition of that progress. As long as we are in jails there cannot be real happiness and joy in hundreds and thousands of homes of His Majesty's loyal subjects in India, for blood is thicker than water; but if we be released the people will instinctively raise a shout of joy and gratitude to the government, who knows how to forgive and correct, more than how to chastise and avenge. Moreover, my conversion to the constitutional line would bring back all those misled young men in India and abroad who were once looking up to me as their guide. I am ready to serve the government in any capacity they like, for as my conversion is conscientious so I hope my future conduct would be. By keeping me in jail nothing can be got in comparison to what would be otherwise. The Mighty alone can afford to be merciful and therefore where else can the prodigal son return but to the parental doors of the government?
%u201CHoping Your Honour will kindly take into notion these points."
Thus, Savarkar himself admits to having written a letter for clemency within one year of his incarceration in the Andamans. He reminds the Member (Home) in 1913 about it and gives an assurance to the government that "my conversion to the constitutional line would bring back all those misled young men in India and abroad who were once looking upto me as their guide."
RE:@mukesh sharma, this was savarkar. U CANT DENY FACTS
by Minu Mukherjee on May 07, 2007 08:49 PM Permalink
Does anybody really care today what marxists say?
More often that, those ideas/people opposed by marxists are found to be correct.
Marxists are a dying creed. Its Ayodhya USSR is gone. China no more follows it.
Its limited to West Bengal and Kerala thanks to Muslim votebank.
RE:@mukesh sharma, this was savarkar. U CANT DENY FACTS
by s on May 10, 2007 12:49 PM Permalink
ha ha ha. 1st u deny the facts in my post. savarkar wrote that, not marxists! as far as our getting theown out, let me tell u that WE WIN NOT BECAUSE OF U, WE WIN DESPITE OF U
