I am not asking for any preferential treatment, though I believe as a political prisoner even that could have been expected in any civilized administration in the Independent nations of the world but only for the concessions and favour that are shown even to the most depraved of convicts and habitual criminals? This present plan of shutting me up in this jail permanently makes me quite hopeless of any possibility of sustaining life and hope. (5) Therefore will your honour be pleased to put an end to this anomalous situation in which I have been placed, by either sending me to Indian jails or by treating me as a transportee just like any other prisoner. But as it is, I have neither the advantages of the Indian jail nor of this convict colony regulation though had to undergo the disadvantages of both. If I was a transportee (sic) pure and simple I would have by this time been released, from this jail and would have been looking forward for ticket-leave etc. (4) If I was in Indian jails I would have by this time earned much remission, could have sent more letters home, got visits. But when after all, the order for my release was given and when just then some of the political prisoners outside were brought into the troubles I was locked in with them because I was their casemen. But, although I had been cased (caned?) hardly twice or thrice and some of those who were released, for a dozen and more times, still I was not released with them because I was their casemen.
(3) When the majority of the casemen were sent outside I requested for my release. Thus Sir, Your Honour would see that only for special disadvantages we are classed as special prisoners. When any of us asked for better food or any special treatment we were told “You are only ordinary convicts and must eat what the rest do”. (2) When I petitioned for promotion I was told I was a special class prisoner and so could not be promoted. From that time to this day I have tried to keep my behaviour as good as possible. Although my conduct during all the time was exceptionally good still at the end of these six months I was not sent out of the jail though the other convicts who came with me were. Then I was put on the oil-mill - the hardest labour in the jail. During that time I was put on the coir pounding though my hands were bleeding.
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Then I had to pass full 6 months in solitary confinement. There I was classed as “D” meaning dangerous prisoner the rest of the convicts were not classed as “D”. (1) When I came here in 1911 June, I was along with the rest of the convicts of my party taken to the office of the Chief Commissioner. “I beg to submit the following points for your kind consideration:
32778) presented personally to the Home Member of the Governor General‟s Council, Sir Reginald Craddock, when he came to visit the Andamans (October-November, 1913) on November 14, 1913, reproduced in the following section makes a shocking reading: The original text of the mercy petition which V D Savarkar (Convict No. It would be open denigration of Shivaji if any one claims that the following mercy was like Shivaji’s letters to Mughals. When we go through the original text of Savarkar’s 19 mercy petitions, we realize the brazen dishonesty of the Hindutva camp in advancing such an argument. It is unfortunate that the Hindutva camp, which swears by Shivaji’s name, is drawing a parallel between the two. There cannot be a lie worse than the claim that Savarkar’s mercy petitions were in league with the tricks which Shivaji used to hoodwink the Mughal rulers successfully. He felt he was wasting the prime of his life in the jail being tortured by the British when the country was raging ahead to fight colonialism… He was entirely justified in writing those letters to get out of the wretched jail so that he could come back to active politics and freedom struggle”. The RSS organ, Organizer while defending Savarkar’s mercy petitions wrote, Finding this the only way, he wrote six letters to the British pleading for his release”. “As an ardent follower of Shivaji, Savarkar wanted to die in action. iĪccording to a prominent RSS functionary, But the British authorities did not trust him a bit”. He was well aware of the political developments outside and wanted to be part of it. In fact, his appeal for release was a ruse. Savarkarites argue, “There are no evidences to prove that Savarkar collaborated with the British for his release from jail.
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