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

the once petty East India Company could become in the end, the
Honourable Company Sarkar Bahadur, which ran the imperial
administration of India.
1105. Although the total defeat of our Hindu nation at the hands of the
British had always been rankling in our hearts like a deep-rooted and
envenomed arrow, we had never repudiated it or glossed over it, not even
detracted from the victory of the British people over us by scolding and
railing at them under false pretexts. For, we had the courage and ability,
which had never died away to avenge that defeat of our Hindu nation. On
the contrary, we sincerely believed that in this bitter war between the Hindu
and the British nations, it was on the whole natural that the British, who
were at that time superior to us in the art of war and strength, should
succeed over us. We knew that the success or defeat on the battlefields
never obeyed the dictates of the code of justice or injustice.
1106. For this reason, as soon as the British imperial power was
established in India, the innermost heroic spirit in the country took up the
gauntlet to vanquish the British nation on the battlefield itself, by resorting
to some Nrusinhian act of aggressive heroism.
1107. After the British snatched away the imperial authority from its
hands, the defeated Hindu nation lay for some time dazed and pale-faced.
Even the volcano lies dead and cold for sometime after every eruption. But
unless that particular eruption is its last, the terribly explosive substances in
its womb smouldering inwardly become unbearably hot. Similarly, the
Hindu Nation was merely defeated by the British—it was not yet dead. As
such, in its mighty heart, there soon began to seethe and smoulder the
explosive elements of many valiant souls, in order to go full tilt once again
against the victorious English!
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The first Great Indian Bombardment Sgainst the British Regime
1108. Hardly a dacade elapsed after the British had conquered the last
Hindu State of Ranjit Singh in Punjab, when there was great outburst of
Hindu-Muslim joint effort to uproot the British imperial power from India.
And there flared up the first conflagration of the War of Independence
against the British in 1857!
1109. The one remarkable aspect of this revolutionary war was that the
Hindus and the Muslims had organized themselves into a joint national