Method and provenance
The archive is a companion to published scholarship, not a replacement for it.
Primary source · approximately 95% of the archive
Sanjeev Sanyal · HarperCollins India, 2023
The book traces armed resistance as a connected tradition: not isolated episodes, but people, texts and organisations carrying ideas across regions and generations.
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Secondary reference
Savarkar (Vol 1: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883-1924)
Vikram Sampath · Penguin Viking, 2019
Savarkar (Vol 2: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966)
Vikram Sampath · Penguin Viking, 2021
Used only to add depth to a small number of people already present in Sanyal’s account, and to add a few documented India House associates. Never used to introduce new figures outside that scope.
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The site uses a structured archive of people, organisations, events, publications, places and relationships. Connections are computed from the source data and retain their High, Medium or Low confidence labels. The 1857 marker is contextual and is not treated as a sourced graph node.
Who built this
Built to make the movement’s hidden relationships easier to see, question and explore.