Savarkar Imprisoned in Cellular Jail, Andaman Islands 🏝️ - July 4, 1911

July 4, 1911. Savarkar is imprisoned in the notorious, maximum security Cellular Jail deep in the remote Andaman Islands. His day begins at 5 a.m. chopping trees with a heavy wooden mallet, after which he is yoked to the oil mill. He experiences solitary confinement, torture and it is rumored he was sodomized. Cut off from the world, the philosopher-revolutionary who thought he would set India free meets a fate worse than death: he is compelled to remain silent. But Savarkar resists being broken. He composes thousands of verses of poetry and commits them to memory. He conceives the ideas that would later inform his treatise expounding his theory of the Indian nation, Hindutva.