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

revolutionary conspirators, as fellow-convicts. Nearly a hundred or more Sikh and non-Sikh revolutionaries of the Gadar Party and other societies, who were originally sentenced to death but whose sentence was later on commuted to deportation, also came along with us, to the Andamans to serve their terms and stayed there with us suffering unbearable innumerable hardships and torture for years together for the sacred cause of the liberation of our motherland. Subsequent to my release from the Andamans, I again came into very intimate contact with the millions of the avowed believers in Hindutwa in the great organizational movement for the solidarity of the Hindus as a staunch opposition to the fanatic Muslim activities, which was a natural concomitant to the armed revolutionary work against the British. For want of space, it is impossible even to mention their names! But a special request has to be made just here, lest the omission of their names might be misunderstood to be due to their work being less important in comparison to that of the others whose names are herein mentioned. 1124. Ever since the sixteenth year of my life—the time when I began to take part in politics—I have been personally and closely connected—at times as a vehement adversary—with all the above-mentioned four phases of Indian political life—the Loyalists, the non-violent but vehemently nationalistic, the revolutionist and finally the Hinduistic—subsequent to the defeat in the war of Indepenedence of 1857. As such, the compilation and interpretation from the Hindu standpoint of the history of the period has been fully done in my writings and speeches made on every occasion during these fifty or sixty years. Now I don't think it necessary for me to add even a single word to the published work of mine running to about seven to eight thousand printed pages in the form of books or otherwise, leaving aside hundreds of my speeches, interviews, articles and the written work that is now lost beyond recovery and now at this age—the eightieth year of my life—when I am confined to bed, I have not the physical strength left in me to go on repeating it once again! Conclusion 1125. During this ceaseless and relentless war with the British, which India had carried on so consistently and so resolutely with violent and non- violent means for more than a hundred years, from its first volcanic eruption in 1857 to the year 1946, when the Second World War had come to an end —in order that it might free itself from the tyrannical bonds of British