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

a thousand years, a great new age of national importance has dawned in the history of the Hindus. As such, the real strategy for the Hindus from the point of view of their own benefit and the greater glory of Hindutwa is first to make the newly won Bharat wholly their own. The fragments that were left in the foreign hands could be attended to later on! 1136. Immediately, the British Union Jack which had been fluttering proudly over the Red Fort in Delhi—over the heart of India as it were—for the last hundred or a hundred and fifty years with overbearing imperial haughtiness, was pulled down and in its place was hoisted amidst tumultuous applause and the deafening cries of “Hail, Indian Independence, all Hail to thee!” the tri- coloured flag of the independent, sovereign Government of India, with the Sudarshan wheel imprinted on it! 1137. From the Western Seas came the British imperial power marching on us with the supercilious vanity that with the sword alone, they would conquer empires and with the sword alone, would they run them, and straightway it climbed the Indian imperial throne of Delhi. But, at last, from the very same throne of Delhi was it dragged down, its vaunting sword being cut to pieces! To the shores of the very same Western Seas, it was driven back and was ultimately submerged into the very same Western Seas! The last defeated British soldier, we saw with our own eyes going back to the same Western Seas with his head long down and back towards us. 1138. Thus of all the foreign aggressions over India that took place during the last two thousand years, the greatest and mightiest one—the sixth in order—that of the British was in the end, utterly defeated by India and its political domination crushed to pieces! This victory over the English which deserves the Commemoration by a Horse-Sacrifice is The Sixth of the Glorious Hindu Victories over foreign aggressors! ❑ .