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Who founded Free Indian Society?

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Hint: He was born in 1883 in Bhagur village.
He was educated at the available Shivaji High School, Before joining at Fergusson College, Poona, in 1902. He was a freedom activist, politician, attorney, and writer from India. From 1937 to 1943, he was the Hindu Mahasabha chief.

Complete answer:
He is also known as Swatantryaveer Savarkar.
The revolutionary activities of V. D. Savarkar started while studying in India and England, where he was affiliated with the India House and formed student societies, including the Abhinav Bharat Society
And the Free India Society, as well as publications that revolutionarily supported the cause of complete Indian independence. On 9 June 1906, he embarked for London, coming to London on 3 July, where he immediately established accommodation at India House in Highgate.
He came to be the protege of Shyamaji Krishnavarma, the producer of India House. Savarkar, based on the suggestions of the Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini, soon established the Free India Society (Savarkar had inscribed a biography of Mazzini).
In July 1911, he arrived in the Andaman Islands, where he lived until 1921 when he was transferred to Ratnagiri, the Presidency of Bombay, where he was imprisoned until 1924 and interned until 1937.

Swatantryaveer Savarkar founded the Free Indian Society.

Note:Savarkar wrote a book entitled 'The History of the Indian Independence War' in which he wrote about the tricks used in the Sepoy Mutiny guerrilla warfare in 1857.
He also wrote to Hindutva during his imprisonment:- What is a Hindu? Savarkar continued his anti-Muslim, anti-British politics after 1937 and became, as President of the right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, the intellectual counterpart to Gandhi's non-violence politics.
He remained a major political force until he died in Bombay in 1966.