भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, that the English took the field against the combined Hindu might of the Sikhs, the Jats and the Dogras spread far and wide from the river Kabul to the river Shatadru (Sutlej) and to the north up to Kashmir and Ladakh. In the end, the English were successful and the English sovereignty was established from Punjab to Kashmir round about A.D. 1850. My book on the History of Sikhs—the one that was Destroyed 1100. As I have surveyed the period of Indian History covered by the Maratha Empire, in my English book Hindu Padpadshahi, smilarly I had written a discourse on the period following the Maratha epoch in that book of mine, the History of the Sikhs, written in Marathi. But while I was in the thick of revolutionary political activities against the English in Paris, round about 1909-10, the manuscript of my book, ‘The History of the Sikhs’ fell into the hands of Government of India’s Secret Intelligence Department and was destroyed before publication. However, in my books “Prushthabhumi” and this one “Six Glorious Epochs of Hindu Victories Over Aggressors”, I have discussed from the Hindu standpoint all the important events in the Sikh history up to 1850—the time when the mighty kingdom of the Sikhs was virtually destroyed! The curious reader should read it. The Anglo-Nepalese War 1101. The third great power, with which the English had to fight for the sovereignty of India, was the then mighty Hindu state of Nepal. Although the English ultimately won that war, their success was not so great as to destroy that Nepalese Hindu State completely. Barring the English paramountcy as regards the external affairs, their internal independence was unimpaired. Again, this existence of the Nepalese Hindu State was essential for the continuance of the English sovereignty over India for a long time afterwards. For, Nepal was a fertile field, which ceaselessly provided staunch and brave Hindu Gurkha soldiers for the English army. This Hindu Gurkha army proved itself quite capable of, not only in India, but also in Europe, successfully facing the even numbered white army of either European countries. Moreover, in the face of a plausible aggression from the mighty Empire of Russia, which was not only capable but anxious to invade the northern frontiers of the British Indian Empire, the English wished that the warlike state of Nepal should serve as a buffer state in order that such a Russian aggression might not come too unexpectedly.