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 375, कुल 494 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 375
- Why, a parallel proclamation was issued by the revolutionists as a
pungent and trenchant rejoinder to the Queen’s proclamation! How
appropritate and poignant it was, has already been clearly shown in my
book, ‘The Indian War of Independence of 1857’. The very basic statement
made in it was that the revolutionary war that had been fought so far was
not fought because they wanted the rule of the British East India Company
over India to be replaced by that of the imperial authority of the British
Queen. They did not want any foreign power—and certainly not that of the
British—to dominate over India! They wanted a completely indpendent
self-rule! That is why, they said, they were fighting on the battlefields.
Although the Queen’s proclamation was exhibited on every wall throughout
India, thousands of revolutionists, including General Tatya Tope, Shreemant
Nanasahib, Balasahib, ‘Jalka Rambhau’, Amar Singh, Ferozshah and other
eminent leaders of the revolution kept on fighting for months together! Only
after the heroic fall of almost all of them in the all-consuming flames of the
revolution, fighting and fighting till the very last, could that sacrificial pit
smoulder low and cool down subsequently!
However! - However, the last two or three promises given in the Queen’s
proclamation did not fail to have the desired effect on the new generation of
Indian people, which was later on educated in the English schools and
colleges that were shortly opened thereafter and on that of the thousands of
Indian officers and servants, which thrived on the Government salaries.
Especially in Calcutta, Bombay, Madras and other cities, where the illusory
British reforms had already spread their cobwebs much earlier than 1857,
the then Indian leaders were so much elated by the promise in the Queen’s
proclamation that the British Empress would allow her British as well as
Indian subjects to enjoy all civic rights equally and without any invidious
distinction, that they declared openly in the public meetings held to
celebrate the total extinction of the ‘mutiny’, that now on, the British
empire belonged as much to the British as to the Indian people! This
proclamation of the Queen was just another peaceful device that the British
had found out, as they had used the other one of ‘violent repression’ simply
to put down the Indian revolutionaries. They had not the least intention to
follow in future the political or administrative policy outlined in it. This, I
have amply proved by quoting the words of the British statesmen
themselves in my books written on later history. But the credulous and