Joe Shearer
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Savarkar and Jinnah who advocated the Two Nation Theory were actually ahead of their time as compared to romanticists like Gandhi and Nehru. Of course, it's easier for me to judge as I have lived their future India. Savarkar was against the against the caste system as well and he wanted Hindus to be united. He wasn't regressive in the sense that he didn't want Hindus to go back to just learning the Vedas and Shastras but he wanted Hindus to modernize and take up the mantle for progressiveness just like the Western world and these views are similar to Nehru's as well. He was a man who was actually well read in history as well.
I disagree with you totally. Nothing personal, but you are talking the language of exclusiveness and religious bigotry. His wide reading in history was worth nothing. It resulted in forming distorted views of society, and regressive ideas about how to relate to other faiths.
Sorry, I can sense your need to defend him, for reasons unknown to me, but you are wasting your time trying to tell me about his good qualities.