You can read English version of 
Rationalism of Veer
Savarkar By V S Godbole here.
A SPECIAL TOUR OF LONDON FOR
INDIANS
Start from Euston Square station and visit the house where
Mazzini, the great
Italian freedom fighter lived in exile during
Italy's freedom struggle against the
Austrians. His life greatly
inspired Veer Savarkar. From here we visit the
following places
:-
(1) University College London. Madanlal Dhingra studied for Diploma
in Civil Engineering in this college. He shot and killed Sir Curzon Wyllie
in 1909.
(2) House in Highgate where Shyamji Krishnavarma lived. He
offered a scholarship to Savarkar.
(3) House where Veer Savarkar
lived.
(4) Grays Inn where Savarkar studied Law, but was not called to
the Bar for his political activities.
(5) Bow Street Police Station and
Magistrate's Court. After his arrest at London Victoria station, Savarkar
was detained in the police station and brought before the Magistrate next
day.
(6) Indian High Commissioner's office.
(7) Pentonville
Prison
Madanlal Dhingra (1909) and Udham Singh ( 1940 ), went to the
gallows here. Both were denied cremation according to Hindu rites, and
buried in coffins within prison premises.
(8) Royal Institute of
Painters in Water Colour
Swami Vivekanand delivered his lectures in
this place ( 1893-95 )
(9) Present Foreign and Commonwealth Office -
This was India Office(1858-1947). Savarkar came here to meet Sir Curzon
Wyllie. He also made his studies for the famous book Indian War of
Independence 1857, in the India Office Library.
Lokamanya Tilak also
visited the India Office Library in 1919
(10) Caxton Hall
Savarkar
held many of his public meetings here ( 1908-1909 )
In 1919 Tilak
condemned the Rowlatt Act and the Jalianwala Bagh Massacre.
In 1940
Udham Singh avenged this massacre by shooting down Sir Michael Odwyer,
Governor of Punjab at the time of the massacre, in the same hall.
(11)
Imperial College - Here Madanlal Dhingra shot dead Sir Curzon Wyllie in
1909
(12) House where Dhingra lived
(13) House where Tilak
lived.
Contact
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