The Indian War of Independence ( book ) - Wikipedia The Indian War of Independence ( book ) For the main article on the 1857 revolt, see Indian Rebellion of 1857. The Indian War of Independence Author Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Country India Language Marathi, English Genre History ( Nationalist ) Publisher Sethani Kampani, Bombay ( reprint, India ) Publication date 1909, 1949 ( reprint, India ) Published in English 1909 The Indian War of Independence is an Indian nationalist history of the 1857 revolt by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar that was first published in 1909. The book, initially written in Marathi, was penned by Savarkar in response to celebrations in Britain of the 50th anniversary of the 1857 Indian uprising with records from India Office archives and the whole 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. Published during Savarkar 's stay in London at the India House, the book was influenced by histories of the French Revolution and the American Revolution, as much as it sought to bring the Indian movement to public attention in Britain as well as to inspire nationalist revolution in India. The book, which describes the 1857 revolt as a unified and national uprising of India as a nation against British authority, was seen at the time as highly inflammatory, and the Marathi edition was banned in British India even before its publication. 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. It was ultimately printed in the Netherlands in 1909, with the British government not tracing it until too late. 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. 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 The Raj forty years later. The Indian War of Independence is considered to be an influential work in Indian history and nationalist writing, and also one of Savarkar 's most influential works in developing and framing ideas of masculine Hinduism. While some erstwhile and modern histories draw similar conclusions as the Savarkar, others, including R.C. Majumdar, disagreed with Savarkar 's conclusions in his book on the national and unified character of the mutiny. References Jump up ^ Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar ( 10 May 1909 ). The Indian War of Independence of 1857. London. Retrieved 9 November 2017. ^ Jump up to : Vohra 2000, p. 70 ^ Jump up to : Yadav 1992, p. 14 Jump up ^ `` V.D. Savarkar and The Indian War of Independence, 1857 ''. University of California, Irvine. Retrieved 2008 - 06 - 20. Jump up ^ Misra 2004, p. 184 ^ Jump up to : Hopkirk 2001, p. 45 Jump up ^ `` Mutiny at the Margins ''. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2008 - 06 - 20. Jump up ^ Dirks 2001, p. 127 Jump up ^ Bannerjee 2005, p. 50 ^ Jump up to : Hasan 1998, p. 149 Jump up ^ Nanda 1965, p. 701 Further reading Bannerjee, Sikata ( 2005 ), Make Me a Man ! : Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India, SUNY press, ISBN 0 - 7914 - 6367 - 2. Dirks, Nicholas B ( 2001 ), Castes of Mind : Colonialism and the Making of Modern India, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0 - 691 - 08895 - 0. Hasan, Farhad ( 1998 ), Social Scientist, Vol. 26, No. 1 / 4 ( Jan. - Apr., 1998 ), pp. 148 - 151. Hopkirk, Peter ( 2001 ), On Secret Service East of Constantinople, Oxford Paperbacks, ISBN 0 - 19 - 280230 - 5. Misra, Amalendu ( 2004 ), Identity and Religion : Foundations of Anti-Islamism in India, SAGE, ISBN 0 - 7619 - 3226 - 7. Nanda, Krishan ( 1965 ), The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 3 ( Sep., 1965 ), pp. 700 - 701, University of Utah on behalf of the Western Political Science Association. Vohra, Ranbir ( 2000 ), The Making of India : A Historical Survey, M.E. Sharpe, ISBN 0 - 7656 - 0712 - 3. Yadav, B.D ( 1992 ), M.P.T. Acharya, Reminiscences of an Indian Revolutionary, Anmol Publications Pvt ltd, ISBN 81 - 7041 - 470 - 9. India House Indian independence movement ( revolutionary ) Shyamji Krishna Varma Lajpat Rai British Committee of the Congress Dadabhai Naoroji Bhikaiji Cama S.R. Rana Henry Hyndman Indian Home Rule Society V.D. Savarkar V.V.S. Iyer V.N. Chatterjee P.M. Bapat M.P.T. Acharya Har Dayal Madanlal Dhingra Mohamed Barkatullah B.C. Pal G.S. Khaparde Abhinav Bharat Society Free India Society The Indian Sociologist The Indian War of Independence Paris Indian Society Bande Mataram Talvar Berlin Committee more Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Indian_War_of_Independence_(book)&oldid=829835506 '' Categories : Marathi - language literature Literature of Indian independence movement 1909 books India House Works about the Indian Rebellion of 1857 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Hidden categories : CS1 : Julian -- Gregorian uncertainty Use Indian English from July 2016 All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English Use dmy dates from July 2016 Books with missing cover Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 11 March 2018, at 02 : 24. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. 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Question: who wrote the book the indian war of independence
Answer: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar