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| genre = History ([[Nationalist]]) | | genre = History ([[Nationalist]]) | ||
| publisher = Sethani Kampani, Bombay (reprint, India) | | publisher = Sethani Kampani, Bombay (reprint, India) | ||
| release_date = 1909, | | release_date = 1909, 1947 (First public edition, India) | ||
| english_release_date = 1909 | | english_release_date = 1909 | ||
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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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| title=Mutiny at the Margins | | title=Mutiny at the Margins | ||
| accessdate=2008-06-20 | | 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/> | }}</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 == | ||