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

the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, that the English took the field against
the combined Hindu might of the Sikhs, the Jats and the Dogras spread far
and wide from the river Kabul to the river Shatadru (Sutlej) and to the north
up to Kashmir and Ladakh. In the end, the English were successful and the
English sovereignty was established from Punjab to Kashmir round about
A.D. 1850.
My book on the History of Sikhs—the one that was Destroyed
1100. As I have surveyed the period of Indian History covered by the
Maratha Empire, in my English book Hindu Padpadshahi, smilarly I had
written a discourse on the period following the Maratha epoch in that book
of mine, the History of the Sikhs, written in Marathi. But while I was in the
thick of revolutionary political activities against the English in Paris, round
about 1909-10, the manuscript of my book, ‘The History of the Sikhs’ fell
into the hands of Government of India’s Secret Intelligence Department and
was destroyed before publication. However, in my books “Prushthabhumi”
and this one “Six Glorious Epochs of Hindu Victories Over Aggressors”, I
have discussed from the Hindu standpoint all the important events in the
Sikh history up to 1850—the time when the mighty kingdom of the Sikhs
was virtually destroyed! The curious reader should read it.
The Anglo-Nepalese War
1101. The third great power, with which the English had to fight for the
sovereignty of India, was the then mighty Hindu state of Nepal. Although
the English ultimately won that war, their success was not so great as to
destroy that Nepalese Hindu State completely. Barring the English
paramountcy as regards the external affairs, their internal independence was
unimpaired. Again, this existence of the Nepalese Hindu State was essential
for the continuance of the English sovereignty over India for a long time
afterwards. For, Nepal was a fertile field, which ceaselessly provided
staunch and brave Hindu Gurkha soldiers for the English army. This Hindu
Gurkha army proved itself quite capable of, not only in India, but also in
Europe, successfully facing the even numbered white army of either
European countries. Moreover, in the face of a plausible aggression from
the mighty Empire of Russia, which was not only capable but anxious to
invade the northern frontiers of the British Indian Empire, the English
wished that the warlike state of Nepal should serve as a buffer state in order
that such a Russian aggression might not come too unexpectedly.