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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Ganesh Damodar Savarkar<br />
| birth_date = 13 June 1879<br />
| birth_place = [[Bhagur]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]] (present-day [[Maharashtra]], [[India]])<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1945|3|16|1879|6|13}}<br />
|death_place= [[Sangli]], Bombay Presidency, British India (present-day Maharashtra, India)<br />
| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]<br />
| other_names = Babarao Savarkar<br />
| known_for = Indian Freedom Fighter, Brother of [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]],<br />
| spouse = Saraswatibai Savarkar<br />
| parents = Damodar Vinayak Savarkar <br><br />
Radhabai Damodar Savarkar<br />
| relatives = [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar]] (brother), Narayan Damodar Savarkar (brother), Maina Damodar Savarkar (sister)<br />
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'''Ganesh Dāmodar Sāvarkar''' (13 June 1879 &ndash;<ref name="Aggarwal1995">{{cite book|author=Som Nath Aggarwal|title=The heroes of Cellular Jail|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9pBHAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Publication Bureau, Punjabi University|isbn=978-81-7380-107-5|page=59}}</ref> 16 March 1945), also called '''Babarao Savarkar''', was an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[politician]], [[Activism|activist]], nationalist, and founder of the [[Abhinav Bharat Society]].<ref name="Jayapalan2001">{{cite book|author=N. Jayapalan|title=History of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Z8OzIyGt0MC&pg=PA21|year=2001|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-7156-917-5|page=21}}</ref><br />
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Ganesh was the eldest of the Savarkar brothers, Ganesh, [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar|Vinayak]], and Narayan, they also had a sister Mainabai, who was the penultimate child of their parents, Narayan being the youngest.<ref name="Sain-1998">{{cite book|last= Sain|first=Pravina Bhim|title=Remembering Our Leaders: Mahadeo Govind Ranade|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=epPiG7IytcUC&pg=PA117|year=1989|publisher=Children's Book Trust|isbn=978-81-7011-767-4}}</ref>{{rp|107}} His parent's death laid the liability of his family at an age of twenty years.<ref name="Aggarwal1995" /><br />
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He led an armed movement against the British colonial government in India, he was sentenced to transportation for life as a result. The then collector of [[Nasik]], Jackson was assassinated by [[Anant Laxman Kanhere]] in retaliation.<ref name="Sain-1998" />{{rp|117}} [[Dhananjay Keer]] describes Jackson as "part of the oppressive machinery of the British Empire" and "...responsible for deporting Babarao..."<ref name="Keer1976">{{cite book|author=Dhananjay Keer|title=Shahu Chhatrapati: a royal revolutionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zOMdAAAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Popular Prakashan}}</ref>{{rp|197}}<br />
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[[M. J. Akbar]] writes that "The five friends who started the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh|RSS]] were [[B. S. Moonje|Dr. B. S. Moonje]], [[L. V. Paranjpe|Dr. L. V. Paranjpe]], Dr. Tholkar, Babarao Savarkar and [[Hedgewar|Dr. Hedgewar]] himself".<ref name="Akbar1985">{{cite book|author=M. J. Akbar|title=India: the siege within|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rgduAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=9780140075762}}</ref>{{rp|306}} Rity Kohli writes that Savarkar's essay on nationalism "Rashtra Mimansa"<ref name="Sarkar1991">{{cite book|author=Jagadish Narayan Sarkar|title=Studies in cultural development of India: collection of essays in honour of Prof. Jagadish Narayan Sarkar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aSpuAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Punthi Pustak|isbn=9788185094434}}</ref>{{rp|471}} was abridged into "We, and our Nationhood, Defined", by [[Golwalkar]], in 1938, which was the first systematic statement of the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] ideology.<ref name="Kohli1993">{{cite book|author=Ritu Kohli|title=Political ideas of M.S. Golwalkar: Hindutva, nationalism, secularism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E8GuWoyoUSkC&pg=PA4|year=1993|publisher=Deep & Deep Publications|isbn=978-81-7100-566-6|page=4}}</ref><br />
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