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Although Savarkar himself proceeded to London in 1906, his organisation continued to flourish in India. It seriously took up the revolutionary activities and tried to spread its branches all over Maharashtra. It preached the gospel of freedom and sang songs and ballads of freedom, the refrain of which was "Free India from the foreigners' yoke".... There was at that time a network of secret societies all over the province. Many colleges and higher education institutions had at least one secret society.... The society's activities included collection of and training in arms and explosives wherever and whenever possible. Arms were surreptitiously sent from London by Savarkar when he settled there in 1906.