Giuseppe Mazzini vs. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Giuseppe Mazzini
1805 – 1872
Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician, lawyer, journalist, philosopher, and political activist who worked for the unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and was a spearhead of the Italian revolutionary movement. His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. An Italian nationalist in the historical radical tradition and a proponent of a republicanism of social-democratic inspiration, Mazzini "helped define the European movement for popular democracy in a republican state." He is widely known as the “Prophet of Italian Nationalism”.
"Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs."
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
1883 – 1966
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was an Indian politician and ideologue. Savarkar developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva while confined at Ratnagiri in 1922. The prefix "Veer" was given by himself when he penned his own biography under the pseudonym Chitragupta.
"Down to the day of Harsha... intermarriages were the order of the day."