Savarkar

Savarkar talks about how the causes of the Indian revolutionary war in 1857 were misrepresented. This seems to be a common thing in wars; what appears to be a feeble cause often overshadows the real cause(s). Savarkar does not mention this in the excerpt we're reading, but I wonder what the result of the war of 1857 was. Did they succeed, was the war still going on when he was writing the book, or does the result not matter? Maybe he thought that the idea of thousands of Indians sacrificing their lives for love of their religion was a feat in itself. It also made me wonder what things we didn't learn in school about American history. There's a book called "Lies My Teacher Told Me" that explains the actual history and America, and didn't overlook the brutality of the origins of the country.