evidence: The harsh treatment by the British drove Savarkar to join the freedom struggle and help fulfil the incomplete mission of the martyrs to make India free of British rule. [...] Savarkar was conscious of the suffering of the people and was emotionally disturbed by the suffering of the people. The harsh treatment and excesses by the British drove him to join the freedom struggle and help fulfil the incomplete mission of the martyrs to make India free of British rule. [...] In 1906, Savarkar left for London to study law. He continued his vision there also and started the Free India Society. During this period he wrote The Indian War of Independence, 1857 (1909) in which he wrote that the Indian Mutiny of 1857 was the first expression of Indian mass rebellion against British colonial rule.