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

front and waged a nationwide war against the British, forgetting their age- long enmity of centuries together! 1110. But I have already written some time in 1908-1909, a detailed history of this revolutionary war in my book of about five hundred pages named, “Indian War of Independence of 1857”. In it, I have reviewed that war from the standpoint of the Hindu nation. As such, it is not necessary to repeat the same here again. 1111. During those two or three years of this war of Independence, the English suffered such heavy losses that the English casualties far outnumbered those suffered by them in all wars with the Marathas, the Sikhs and the Nepalese taken together, for the sovereignty of India. The brave revolutionists killed so many British warriors and white men! Let alone the petty English captains, lieutenants, collectors, magistrates and such like second-grade officers, but such eminent personalities like General White, General Neill, Sir Henry Lawrence, General Outram, Commander- in- Chief Anson and others too had to pay the penalty with their lives. The revolutionaries dispatched most of them on the battlefield! The English too killed nearly a hundred thousand fighters from amongst the revolutionaries, as per the statement of Nanasahib Peshwa, the leader of that revolution! 1112. At the end of this revolutionary war, the British terminated “The Honourable East India Company”, which was to the revolutionaries a virtual British Government, and which they hated for the same reason. The British thought that the abolition of The East India Company and its rule would pacify the Indian revolutionaries inasmuch as their wishes had been honoured in this respect! So the British Government proclaimed it with all the fanfare and grandiose display that the administration of India had been taken over from the East India Company and that the latter had been dissolved and further, that the British Queen, Victoria, would, thereafter, take for herself the title, The Empress of India, assuming full sovereign power over the country. Thus, the clash of arms on the battlefield, by the Indian revolutionists for about three years had put an end to the hated ‘East India Company’. 1113. Over and above this, the British issued throughout India a proclamation in the name of the new Empress of India, Victoria, the Queen of England, in which, for the sake of the revolutionists and with a view to pacifying them a bit, it was said that after the issue of that proclamation, whoever of the ‘mutineers’ would stop fighting openly or covertly and