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

for politicial independence and for defending our religion, is the chief of
them. And the second, far more extensive and even more effective than the
first, was the one in Maharashtra under the leadership of Vasudev Balwant
Phadke. It was a violent armed revolt against the British for the complete
independence of India! These incidents, too, are reviewed in detail in the
Background to my ‘Autobiography’.
1121. Thereafter, dawned the age of Lokmanya Tilak, which was
synchronized by the lethal attacks of Chaphekar brothers on the English
officers and the feverish activity of secret revolutionary societies for liberty.
The Political Movements in India after 1900
1122. At the end of 1900 or thereabouts, terminated the era of loyalist
political movement and began the one of Lokmanya Tilak which might
fittingly be called—though not revolutionary—conducive to revolution. To
this very period were inextricably tied up in my very childhood, from the
time of the martyrs, Chaphekars’ sally at the British, my heartstrings and
later on my whole life was dedicated to that revolutionary activity. As such
my life-history itself became an expensive chapter in the war of liberation
against the English. Naturally, whatever might be said about these nation-
wide political activities during this period, from the point of view of
Hindutwa, has already appeared in the written part of my ‘Autobiography’
or will perhaps in the one, which might be written hereafter. As such, even
when I was in my teens to come in closer contacts with almost all the elder
reputed leaders of India in respect of this independence movement.
1123. When I had been to England in my very young days, I had come in
contact with the eldest of the Indian politicians of the time and the earliest
founder of the loyalist political front, namely Dadabhai Nawroji, in his
eighties. Why, there my revolutionary party had to cross swords with his
British-loyalist party in our tug-of-war for the leadership of Indian political
movement in England. Next to him, I had developed in England itself closer
relations with the respected staunch Bengali freedom fighters from amongst
those belonging to the generation following that of Dadabhai Nawroji, like
the late Shree Surendranath Bannerjee, Romeshchandra Datta and others.
With most of the younger leaders of the same period belonging to the
staunch nationalist party fighting vehemently against the loyalist front, I had
developed personal friendship and ideological kinship. With the active
political workers from Pandit Shyamji Krishan Verma, Lala Lajpat Rai,
Bipinchandra Pal, Right Honourable Gokhale and such other all-India