Hindu Rashtra Darshan By Savarkar

 Hindu rashtravada has been collectively referred to as the expression of social and political thought, based on the native spiritual and cultural traditions of the Indian subcontinent. Defenders of Hindu nationalism have tried to avoid the label "nationalism" by arguing that the use of the term "Hindu nationalism" to refer to Hindu Rashtravada is a simplistic translation and is better described by the term "Hindu Rashtra". Savarkar was one of the first in the 20th century to attempt a definitive description of the term "Hindu" in terms of what he called Hindutva meaning Hinduness. The coinage of the term "Hindutva" was an attempt by Savarkar to de-link it from any religious connotations that had become attached to it. He defined the word Hindu as: "He who considers India as both his Fatherland and Holyland". He thus defined Hindutva or Hindu as different from Hinduism. Savarkar further defined the concept of Hindu Rashtra and his concept of Hindu Polity called for the protection of Hindu people and their culture and emphasised that political and economic systems should be based on native thought rather than on the concepts borrowed from the West.

This classic and unique book, Hindu Rashtra Darshan, is a compilation of six presidential addresses of Veer Savarkar in Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha from 1937 to 1942 which focuses on  hindudom and hindustan; fighting to defend and consolidate hindudom; hindu movement against anti-hindu policy; hinduism and pseudo-nationalism; unjustifiable humiliation to the hindu houour; and Pan-hindu consciousness. This book gives the true meaning and correct picture of the Hindu Rashtra, wherein everyone living on the land this side of Indus river is a Hindu by culture, by values and not by the religion in its narrow definition.