भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
DevanagariHindipublished494 पृष्ठ
पृष्ठ 371, कुल 494 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 371
- Only after defeating the Hindu power of the Marathas, the Sikhs and
the Nepalese, could the English claim complete sovereignty over India. - The scrambling little East India Company of overseas traders in
England, which was established round about the rise of Shivaji Maharaj and
which had begun its activities with two meagre factories at its disposal,
went on enlarging the sphere of activities and thus acquired the sovereignty
of the whole of India about 1850! Originally started by about a dozen
Englishmen of pluck, the obscure trading company thus became, within a
short period of two centuries or so, the mistress of a mighty empire! During
the same period rose and fell many royal dynasties vying with one another
for the sovereignty of India. Many sundry states were founded soon and
found themselves engaged in internecine warfare and destroyed. But,
ultimately, it was this East India Company that struggled and fought on and
ultimately supplanted all those rival powers to become the sole mistress of
India. How very insignificant a commercial body was this East India
Company on the day on which it was started by a handful of shareholders!
But all its yearly reports of its assets and liabilities, of its income and its
expenditure, right from its first year of inception to the year of its
dissolution, carrying forward its previous year's balance and new sources of
income and new items of expenditure every year, till after a hundred and
fifty or two hundred years it came to include towards its credit side the very
empire of India, had all been very scrupulously and systematically
preserved in its secretariat in London. And when in 1858, it was dissolved
and the British Government itself took over the Empire of India in the name
of Queen Victoria, it was most systematically and legally wound up like any
commercial or professional concern paying every shareholder his dues as
per its last balance-sheet of that year and after paying off all other
liabilities! - This continuous process of British administration, this neatness and
precision in its work, its capacity to organize and govern, to run a vast and
complicated administration, shine all the more gloriously when contrasted
with the confused way of doing things, prevalent in our country at that time,
our lack of order, political instability and our complete disregard for well
organized work! Although it is unjustifiable to show the similarity and
difference between the British nation and our own, as they at the time were,
by such a solitary and comparatively insignificant instance as this, it may
still serve as a pointer—and a very effective pointer at that—to show how