Savarkar, Shuddhi and Swami Dayanand Dr. Vivek Arya It was year 1913. Vinayak Savarkar, the great patriot was imprisoned in the Andaman Jail of Port Blair. Savarkar found a very strange pattern of discrimination in Jail. The higher officials in Jail were mainly British while the junior ranks were occupied mostly by Pathans from North West Frontier Province. It was usual for Muslim Pathans to use abusive language for Hindu prisoners because they consider them as Kafirs. They