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'''Abhinav Bharat Society (Young India Society)''' was an Indian Independence [[secret society]] founded by [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]] and his brother [[Ganesh Damodar Savarkar]]<br />
in 1904.<ref>{{harvnb|Jayapalan|2001|p=21}}; {{harvnb|Bapu|2013|p=96}}</ref> Initially founded at [[Nasik]] as "Mitra Mela" when Vinayak Savarkar was still a student of [[Fergusson College]] at [[Pune]], the society grew to include several hundred revolutionaries and political activists with branches in various parts of India, extending to London after Savarkar went to study law. It carried out a few assassinations of British officials, after which the Savarkar brothers were convicted and imprisoned. The society was formally disbanded in 1952.<ref name=Jaffrelot26>{{Harvnb|Jaffrelot|1996|p=26}}</ref><ref name=Teltumbde212>{{Harvnb|Teltumbde|2005|p=212}}</ref><br />
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== History ==<br />
Vinayak Savarkar and [[Ganesh Savarkar]] started ''Mitra Mela'', a revolutionary secret society in Nasik in 1899. It was one among several such ''melas'' (revolutionary societies) functioning in Maharashtra at that time, which believed in the overthrow of [[British raj|British rule]] through armed rebellion.{{sfn|Bapu|2013|pp=95-96}} In 1904, in a meeting attended by 200 members from various towns in Maharashtra, Swantraveer Vinayak Savarkar renamed it ''Abhinav Bharat'', taking after [[Giuseppe Mazzini]]'s [[Young Italy (historical)|Young Italy]].{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}<br />
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In 1906, Vinayak Savarkar left to London to study law. In the same year, he compiled a volume called ''Mazzini Charitra'', a translation of the Italian revolutionary [[Mazzini]]'s writings with a 25-page introduction added.{{sfn|Sharma|2006|p=157}} The book was published in Maharashtra in June 1907 and the first edition of 2,000 copies is said to have sold out within a month.{{sfn|Joglekar|2006|p=49}} Mazzini's techniques of secret societies and guerilla warfare were fully embraced by Savarkar. He wrote regular newsletters to his compatriots in India as well as carrying out revolutionary propaganda in London.{{sfn|Bapu|2013|p=96}}<br />
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== Activities ==<br />
Savarkar's revolutionary thoughts led to the assassination of Lt. Col. [[William Curzon-Wyllie]], the political aide-de-camp to the Secretary of State for India, by Madanlal Dhingra on the evening of 1 July 1909, at a meeting of Indian students in the Imperial Institute in London. Dhingra was arrested and later tried and executed. [[A. M. T. Jackson]], the district magistrate of Nasik, was assassinated in India by Anant Laxman Kanhare in 1909 in the historic "Nasik Conspiracy Case".{{sfn|Bapu|2013|p=96}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/libweb/historicalcases/cases/Nasik_Conspiracy_Case_-1910.html |title=Nasik Conspiracy Case - 1910 |publisher=Bombay High Court |access-date=2015-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090409230639/http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/libweb/historicalcases/cases/Nasik_Conspiracy_Case_-1910.html |archive-date=9 April 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><br />
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The investigation into the Jackson assassination revealed the existence of the Abhinav Bharat Society and the role of the Savarkar brothers in leading it. Vinayak Savarkar was found to have dispatched twenty [[John Browning|Browning]] pistols to India, one of which was used in the Jackson assassination. He was charged in the Jackson murder and sentenced to "transportation" for life. Savarkar was imprisoned in the [[Cellular Jail]] in the [[Andaman Islands]] in 1910.{{sfn|Bapu|2013|p=96}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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* {{citation |last=Joglekar |first=Jaywant |title=Veer Savarkar Father of Hindu Nationalism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1J3uk3x_k6sC |year=2006 |publisher=Lulu.com |isbn=978-1-84728-380-1 }}{{self-published source|date=February 2020}}<br />
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