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	\| publisher = Sethani Kampani, Bombay (reprint, India)		\| publisher = Sethani Kampani, Bombay (reprint, India)
	\| release_date = 1909, ~~1949~~ (~~reprint~~, India)		\| release_date = 1909, 1947 (First public edition, India)
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	'''''The Indian War of Independence''''' is an Indian [[Historical revisionism\|nationalist history]] of the [[1857 revolt]] by [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]] that was first published in 1909.<ref name="Savarkar">{{cite book\|last1=Savarkar\|first1=Vinayak Damodar\|title=The Indian War of Independence of 1857\|date=10 May 1909\|location=London\|url=https://archive.org/details/ldpd_6260651_000\|accessdate=9 November 2017}}</ref><ref name=Vohra70>{{Harvnb\|Vohra\|2000\|p=70}}</ref>		'''''The Indian War of Independence''''' is an Indian [[Historical revisionism\|nationalist history]] of the [[1857 revolt]] by [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]] that was first published in 1909.<ref name="Savarkar">{{cite book\|last1=Savarkar\|first1=Vinayak Damodar\|title=The Indian War of Independence of 1857\|date=10 May 1909\|location=London\|url=https://archive.org/details/ldpd_6260651_000\|accessdate=9 November 2017}}</ref><ref name=Vohra70>{{Harvnb\|Vohra\|2000\|p=70}}</ref>

	== Description ==		== Description ==
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	}}</ref> The copies were printed with false dust wrappers purporting to be copies of ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]'' and other literary classics, and large quantities were shipped to India where it quickly became a bible of political extremists.<ref name=Hopkirk45/> It was excluded from the catalogue of the [[British Library]] to prevent Indian students from accessing it. In India, the book remained banned till the end of [[British Raj\|the Raj]] forty years later.<ref name=Hopkirk45/>		}}</ref> The copies were printed with false dust wrappers purporting to be copies of ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]'' and other literary classics, and large quantities were shipped to India, where it quickly became a bible of political extremists.<ref name=Hopkirk45/> It was excluded from the catalogue of the [[British Library]] to prevent Indian students from accessing it. In India, the book remained banned till the end of [[British Raj\|the Raj]] forty years later.<ref name=Hopkirk45/>

	== Legacy ==		== Legacy ==

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	=== Inspiration ===		=== Inspiration ===
	The book was influenced by histories of the [[French Revolution]] ~~and~~ the [[American Revolution]]. Additionally, [[Karl Marx]] had published a short article named "The Indian Revolt" in the [[New-York Tribune]] in 1857 and later went on to write the book "The First Indian War of Independence 1857-58" in the coming years. Savarkar published his book later in 1909, using much the same format as Marx's work. <ref name="UCalI">{{cite web		The book was influenced by histories of the [[French Revolution]], the [[American Revolution]] and Indian histories of the Mahratta conquests.<ref>{{Cite journal\|last=Visana\|first=Vikram\|title=Savarkar before Hindutva: Sovereignty, Republicanism, and Populism in India, c.1900–1920\|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-intellectual-history/article/abs/savarkar-before-hindutva-sovereignty-republicanism-and-populism-in-india-c19001920/90DC611F3F01B05C2FE4ECC61BECDC73\|journal=Modern Intellectual History\|pages=1–24\|doi=10.1017/S1479244320000384\|issn=1479-2443\|year=2020}}</ref> Additionally, [[Karl Marx]] had published a short article named "The Indian Revolt" in the [[New-York Tribune]] in 1857 and later went on to write the book "The First Indian War of Independence 1857-58" in the coming years. Savarkar published his book later in 1909, using much the same format as Marx's work. <ref name="UCalI">{{cite web
	\| publisher = University of California, Irvine		\| publisher = University of California, Irvine
	\| url= https://eee.uci.edu/programs/humcore/Student/Spring2008/LectureNotes/LNWk5-2_SavarkarLecture1_S08.htm		\| url= https://eee.uci.edu/programs/humcore/Student/Spring2008/LectureNotes/LNWk5-2_SavarkarLecture1_S08.htm
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	}}.		}}.
			*Visana, Vikram (2020), "[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-intellectual-history/article/abs/savarkar-before-hindutva-sovereignty-republicanism-and-populism-in-india-c19001920/90DC611F3F01B05C2FE4ECC61BECDC73 Savarkar before Hindutva: Sovereignty, Republicanism, and Populism in India, c. 1900-1920]," ''Modern Intellectual History.''

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| author = [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]]
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| publisher = Sethani Kampani, Bombay (reprint, India)
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'''''The Indian War of Independence''''' is an Indian [[Historical revisionism|nationalist history]] of the [[1857 revolt]] by [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]] that was first published in 1909.<ref name="Savarkar">{{cite book|last1=Savarkar|first1=Vinayak Damodar|title=The Indian War of Independence of 1857|date=10 May 1909|location=London|url=https://archive.org/details/ldpd_6260651_000|accessdate=9 November 2017}}</ref><ref name=Vohra70>{{Harvnb|Vohra|2000|p=70}}</ref>

== Description ==

=== Creation ===
The book, initially written in [[Marathi language|Marathi]], was penned by Savarkar in response to celebrations in [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Great Britain]] of the 50th anniversary of the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]] with records from [[India Office]] archives. The project received support from Indian nationalists in Britain, including the likes of [[Madame Cama]], [[V.V.S. Iyer]] and [[M.P.T. Acharya]], as well as Indian students who had dared not show their support or sympathy for [[India House]] openly.<ref name="Yadav14">{{Harvnb|Yadav|1992|p=14}}</ref> Published during Savarkar's stay in [[London]] at the India House, it sought to bring the [[Indian independence movement|Indian movement]] to public attention in Britain as well as to inspire [[Indian nationalism|nationalist]] movements in India.

=== Inspiration ===
The book was influenced by histories of the [[French Revolution]] and the [[American Revolution]]. Additionally, [[Karl Marx]] had published a short article named "The Indian Revolt" in the [[New-York Tribune]] in 1857 and later went on to write the book "The First Indian War of Independence 1857-58" in the coming years. Savarkar published his book later in 1909, using much the same format as Marx's work. <ref name="UCalI">{{cite web
| publisher = University of California, Irvine
| url= https://eee.uci.edu/programs/humcore/Student/Spring2008/LectureNotes/LNWk5-2_SavarkarLecture1_S08.htm
| title= V.D. Savarkar and The Indian War of Independence, 1857
| accessdate=2008-06-20
}}</ref>

=== Reception ===
The book, which describes the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]] as a unified and national uprising of India as a nation against British authority,<ref name=Misra184>{{Harvnb|Misra|2004|p=184}}</ref> was seen at the time as highly inflammatory, and the Marathi edition was banned in [[British India]] even before its publication.<ref name=Hopkirk45>{{Harvnb|Hopkirk|2001|p=45}}</ref> Publication of the English translation faltered after British printers and publishing houses were warned by the [[Home Office]] of its highly seditious content, while the British foreign office brought pressure on the French government to prevent its publication from [[Paris]].<ref name=Hopkirk45/> It was ultimately printed in the Netherlands in 1909, with the British government not tracing it until too late.<ref name="Yadav14"/><ref name=Hopkirk45/><ref name=EdinUni>{{cite web
| publisher = University of Edinburgh
| url=http://www.csas.ed.ac.uk/mutiny/history3.html#_edn1
| title=Mutiny at the Margins
| accessdate=2008-06-20
}}</ref> The copies were printed with false dust wrappers purporting to be copies of ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]'' and other literary classics, and large quantities were shipped to India where it quickly became a bible of political extremists.<ref name=Hopkirk45/> It was excluded from the catalogue of the [[British Library]] to prevent Indian students from accessing it. In India, the book remained banned till the end of [[British Raj|the Raj]] forty years later.<ref name=Hopkirk45/>

== Legacy ==
''The Indian War of Independence'' is considered to be an influential work in Indian history and nationalist writing,<ref name=Dirks127>{{Harvnb|Dirks|2001|p=127}}</ref> and also one of Savarkar's most influential works in developing and framing ideas of [[Hinduism]].<ref name=Bannerjee50>{{Harvnb|Bannerjee|2005|p=50}}</ref> While some erstwhile and modern histories draw similar conclusions as the Savarkar,<ref name=Hasan149>{{Harvnb|Hasan|1998|p=149}}</ref> others, including [[R.C. Majumdar]], disagreed with Savarkar's conclusions in his book on the national and unified character of the mutiny.<ref name=Vohra70/><ref name=Hasan149/><ref name=Nanda701>{{Harvnb|Nanda|1965|p=701}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{Citation
| surname1 = Bannerjee
| given1 = Sikata
| year = 2005
| title = Make Me a Man!: Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India
| publisher = SUNY press
| ISBN= 0-7914-6367-2
}}.
*{{Citation
| surname1 = Dirks
| given1 = Nicholas B
| year = 2001
| title = Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India
| publisher = Princeton University Press
| ISBN= 0-691-08895-0
}}.
*{{Citation
| surname1 = Hasan
| given1 = Farhad
| year = 1998
| title = Social Scientist, Vol. 26, No. 1/4 (Jan. - Apr., 1998), pp. 148-151
}}.
*{{Citation
| surname1 = Hopkirk
| given1 = Peter
| authorlink = Peter Hopkirk
| year = 2001
| title = On Secret Service East of Constantinople
| publisher = Oxford Paperbacks
| ISBN = 0-19-280230-5
}}.
*{{Citation
| surname1 = Misra
| given1 = Amalendu
| year = 2004
| title = Identity and Religion: Foundations of Anti-Islamism in India
| publisher = SAGE
| ISBN= 0-7619-3226-7
}}.
*{{Citation
| surname1 = Nanda
| given1 = Krishan
| year = 1965
| title = The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Sep., 1965), pp. 700-701
| publisher = University of Utah on behalf of the Western Political Science Association
}}.
*{{Citation
| surname1 = Vohra
| given1 = Ranbir
| year = 2000
| title = The Making of India: A Historical Survey
| publisher = M.E. Sharpe
| ISBN= 0-7656-0712-3
}}.
*{{Citation
| surname1 = Yadav
| given1 = B.D
| year = 1992
| title = M.P.T. Acharya, Reminiscences of an Indian Revolutionary
| publisher = Anmol Publications Pvt ltd
| ISBN= 81-7041-470-9
}}.

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