Maia Ramnath - Decolonizing Anarchism.pdf - Libcom

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"indicate[ d 1 that the association aimed at some sort of
organisation fo unded upon the model of revolutionary
societies in Russia:' including Thomas Frost's The Secret
Societies of the European Revolution, 1776- ! 876, a book "in
which is described the secret organisation of the Russian
Nihilists, consisting of small circles or groups affiliated into
sections, each member knowing only the members of the
circle to which he belonged. This may explain the existence
of various small groups of young men who are fo und
in this case to h;we been working fo r the same objects and
drawing weapons from the same source without personal
acquaintance with the members of other groups." "
Enraged at his brother's conviction, Savarkar called
fo r the murder of English people in India as reprisal. He
sent a consignment of twenty Browning pistols and ammunition
back to India concealed in a false-bottom box in
the luggage of Govind Amin, India House's resident chef
and ammunition buyer. These pistols were then used in
the assassination of a district magistrate in Maharashtra.
Savarkar was quickly implicated in the killing, thought to
be a dual act of revenge for Dhingra's death and Gmesh's
imprisonment. Demonstrating its transnational perspective,
the Indian Sociologist commented, "Allowing fo r the
difference in the longitudes of Paris and Nasik the time of
our writing to sympathise with the members of the family
of Mr. Savarkar synchronized almost to a minute with
that of the assassination avenging the sentence of transportation
passed on him. There is a sort 'poetic justice' in
all this which will, we doubt not, strike the imagination of
our readers." 34