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

the once petty East India Company could become in the end, the Honourable Company Sarkar Bahadur, which ran the imperial administration of India. 1105. Although the total defeat of our Hindu nation at the hands of the British had always been rankling in our hearts like a deep-rooted and envenomed arrow, we had never repudiated it or glossed over it, not even detracted from the victory of the British people over us by scolding and railing at them under false pretexts. For, we had the courage and ability, which had never died away to avenge that defeat of our Hindu nation. On the contrary, we sincerely believed that in this bitter war between the Hindu and the British nations, it was on the whole natural that the British, who were at that time superior to us in the art of war and strength, should succeed over us. We knew that the success or defeat on the battlefields never obeyed the dictates of the code of justice or injustice. 1106. For this reason, as soon as the British imperial power was established in India, the innermost heroic spirit in the country took up the gauntlet to vanquish the British nation on the battlefield itself, by resorting to some Nrusinhian act of aggressive heroism. 1107. After the British snatched away the imperial authority from its hands, the defeated Hindu nation lay for some time dazed and pale-faced. Even the volcano lies dead and cold for sometime after every eruption. But unless that particular eruption is its last, the terribly explosive substances in its womb smouldering inwardly become unbearably hot. Similarly, the Hindu Nation was merely defeated by the British—it was not yet dead. As such, in its mighty heart, there soon began to seethe and smoulder the explosive elements of many valiant souls, in order to go full tilt once again against the victorious English! (OUTBURST) The first Great Indian Bombardment Sgainst the British Regime 1108. Hardly a dacade elapsed after the British had conquered the last Hindu State of Ranjit Singh in Punjab, when there was great outburst of Hindu-Muslim joint effort to uproot the British imperial power from India. And there flared up the first conflagration of the War of Independence against the British in 1857! 1109. The one remarkable aspect of this revolutionary war was that the Hindus and the Muslims had organized themselves into a joint national