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

converted minds of the above mentioned class of Indian people who were
educated in ‘English Schools’ and who were earnestly busy serving their
British masters, could never grasp this secret and crooked ruse of British
diplomacy. On the contrary, being deluded by the preposterous
proclamation of the Queen, who mad with victory, had the audacity to
ascend to the imperial throne of India, these simple gulls of Indian leaders
hastened to glorify that ‘proclamation’ as the Indian Magna Carta in press
and public meetings. How absurd and foolish it is to compare that original
“Magna Carta” in English history, with which the English people, after
fighting successfully with their King, had forced him to concede to them
their fundamental civic rights, with this deceitful and profane ‘proclamation
of the Queen’, which tightened the shackles of slavery on the Indian hands
and feet even more forcibly than before, only gilding them outwardly so as
to pass them on as ornaments.
1119. But in my Background to my ‘Autobiography’ I have already dealt,
at greater length, and from the point of view of the Indian people, with the
period of Indian history, after the temporary pacification of the War of
Liberation of 1857 was achieved and the foundation of the British
administration in India was firmly secured. Hence, it need not be repeated
here!
The Peculiar Character of the period the Political Movements of the
Loyalists
1120. The peculiarity of the period following the pacification of the
national rising of 1857—i.e., roughly speaking from 1860 to 1900—is that,
it is dominated by a nationwide movement under the leadership of those
who believed that India would once again see national prosperity and
development only by remaining in the British empire and she must achieve
it that way alone! Hence, this period can be generally called an age of the
loyalist politicians. However, even in this age of avowed loyal politicians,
the age-old tradition of heroism, which vehemently advocated armed revolt
to free the motherland from British domination, was not altogether extinct!
It did flare up secretly or even openly, in some daring risings! Even those
momentary explosions of that traditional heroism did not fail to convulse
the British administration in India and to excite and inspire the Indian
people at least for the time being. Only two illustrations of these armed
revolts would suffice. The Hindu rising under the leadership of Ramsingh
Kuka in Punjab during 1870-74 A.D. against the British and the Muslims