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Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar

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  1. Again, in respect of establishing the authentic history of any nation beyond doubt, the convincing references in the contemporary literature of other nations are really invaluable. The ancient period of our history which can be supported by the now available, unimpeachable evidence in the historical records of countries other than India is the one that begins round about the times of Emperor Chandragupta Maurya. For, since the date of Alexander’s so-called invasion of India, numerous references to events in India are to be found in the historical accounts of the Greek writers and the description of their travels by the Chinese travellers.
  2. What should be the criterion for determining the Glorious Epochs I am going to discuss here? For that matter, there are hundreds of glorious epochs in the history of our nation that stand the tests of poetic exuberance, music, prowess, affluence, the height of philosophy and depth of theology and many other criteria. But by the ‘Glorious Epoch’, I mean the one from the history of that warlike generation and the brave leaders and successful warriors, who inspire and lead it on to a war of liberation, in order to free their nation from the shackles of foreign domination, whenever it has the misfortune to fall a prey to such powerful fatal aggression and to grovel abjectly under it, and who ultimately drive away the enemy making it an absolutely free and sovereign nation. Every nation extols such epochs of the wars of independence which inflict crushing defeats on the enemy. Take, for instance, the American War of Independence. The day on which America wrenched her independence from England, vanquishing her completely on the battlefield, is a red-letter day in the history of America and is celebtrated like a festival all over the country. The moment recording this successful struggle for freedom is acknowledged as a glorious epoch in the history of America. Great Nations and the calamity of Foreign Domination
  3. Moreover, the birth of the United States of America is only of a recent date. In the very short span of her history, it is not unnatural that only one such terrible calamity befell her and, consequently, gave her only one glorious occasion to overcome it. But the nations like China, Babylon, Persia, Egypt, ancient Peru, ancient Mexico, Greece, Rome and many others, which can boast of a history of thousands of years, naturally had many occasions of having been overcome and oppressed by mightier foreign aggressors. From these monstrous calamities, some of these nations freed themselves again and again with exceptional valour, and humbled and