भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
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पृष्ठ 371, कुल 494 में से
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- Only after defeating the Hindu power of the Marathas, the Sikhs and the Nepalese, could the English claim complete sovereignty over India.
- The scrambling little East India Company of overseas traders in England, which was established round about the rise of Shivaji Maharaj and which had begun its activities with two meagre factories at its disposal, went on enlarging the sphere of activities and thus acquired the sovereignty of the whole of India about 1850! Originally started by about a dozen Englishmen of pluck, the obscure trading company thus became, within a short period of two centuries or so, the mistress of a mighty empire! During the same period rose and fell many royal dynasties vying with one another for the sovereignty of India. Many sundry states were founded soon and found themselves engaged in internecine warfare and destroyed. But, ultimately, it was this East India Company that struggled and fought on and ultimately supplanted all those rival powers to become the sole mistress of India. How very insignificant a commercial body was this East India Company on the day on which it was started by a handful of shareholders! But all its yearly reports of its assets and liabilities, of its income and its expenditure, right from its first year of inception to the year of its dissolution, carrying forward its previous year's balance and new sources of income and new items of expenditure every year, till after a hundred and fifty or two hundred years it came to include towards its credit side the very empire of India, had all been very scrupulously and systematically preserved in its secretariat in London. And when in 1858, it was dissolved and the British Government itself took over the Empire of India in the name of Queen Victoria, it was most systematically and legally wound up like any commercial or professional concern paying every shareholder his dues as per its last balance-sheet of that year and after paying off all other liabilities!
- This continuous process of British administration, this neatness and precision in its work, its capacity to organize and govern, to run a vast and complicated administration, shine all the more gloriously when contrasted with the confused way of doing things, prevalent in our country at that time, our lack of order, political instability and our complete disregard for well organized work! Although it is unjustifiable to show the similarity and difference between the British nation and our own, as they at the time were, by such a solitary and comparatively insignificant instance as this, it may still serve as a pointer—and a very effective pointer at that—to show how