Upon this and other cognate points the trial of Vinayak Savarkar, formerly the London correspondent of one of Tilak's organs and a familiar of the "India House," and of some twenty-five other Hindus on various charges of conspiracy which is now proceeding in the High Court of Bombay, may be expected to throw some very instructive light.
The atmosphere of Nasik was no doubt exceptionally favourable for such morbid growths.

For Nasik is no ordinary provincial town of India.

It is one of the great strongholds of Hinduism.

Its population is only about 25,000, but of these about 9,000 belong to the Brahmanical caste, though only about 1,000 are Chitpavan Brahmans, the rest being mainly Deshastha Brahmans, another great sept of the Deccanee sacerdotal caste.

It is a city of peculiar sanctity with the Hindus.