Savarkar... finally

In his introduction, Savarkar states the importance of history and knowing the truth about what happened. He states that in order to not make the same mistakes in the future, you have to know the past. He also talks about how it's okay to do something in the past because of certain situations that happened, but just because it happened in the past, doesn't mean it's okay to do now. For example, hate for a certain group of people. It's not fair to hate them just because it was okay to hate them in the past. People have to know the context of history so that they can understand the future. This passage reminds me of the phrase "if you don't know where youre from, you won't know where youre going." (something like that). This shows the importance of history because if you don't know your country's history, you will be lost in the future. I think this agrees with Gandhi in a way becuase they both do not want the negative aspects of their history to be repeated.