Hindutva is an ideological epigraph written by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in 1922.^[3][4] The book was published in 1923 while Savarkar was still in jail.^[5] It was retitled Hindutva: Who Is a Hindu? (with the second phrase as a subtitle) when reprinted in 1928. Savarkar's epigraph forms part of the canon of works published during British rule that later influenced post-independence contemporary Hindu nationalism.^[6]