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

figures to hundreds of the leaders belonging to different provinces, I had
either developed friendly ties or had to fight political battles on many
occasions. Lokmanya Tilak, Shivrampant Paranjpe, Shreemant Dadarao
Khaparde, Dr. Moonje and the other Maharashtrian leaders of that line were
individually so closely acquainted with me that some of them and the
staunch nationalist leaders from other provinces, too, bestowed parental
affection on me. For example, while Bipin Chandra Pal was in England, I
was staying with him for sometime in company with his son, Niranjan Pal.
Bipin Babu himself had more than once cooked fish and flesh in the Bengali
style and had served them to me with great importunity and had added to
his moral credit the meritorious act of polluting a strictly vegetarian
Maharashtrian Brahmin like myself. With the future exponent of the ‘non-
violent truth-assertion’ (Satyagrah), ‘non-coperation movement’ who later
on came to be widely known as Mahatmaji—I happened to be closely
acquainted in a fiendly way when he had come to England, where he was
then known simply as Barrister Gandhi and thereafter throughout our lives,
we came together and many times in conflict—in the political arena in
India. And my relations with armed revolutionary party in India are too
well- known to be recounted here! The All-India leadership of the post-
Chaphekar revolutionary activities had by chance devolved on me at least in
the beginning—first in Maharashtra and thereafter in England. Need it be
told, that I had developed very close acquaintance with thousands of brave
martyrs and gallant fighters of that party? Shyamji Krishan Verma, Madame
Cama, Barrister Rana and many other elder and eminent personalities were
among those who were converted to our revolutionary views through my
propaganda and guidance. Thus, I had very close contacts and personal
friendship with various great personalities from all over India. To the
thousands of members of my revolutionary secret society, the Abhinav
Bharat Samastha, right from its original nucleus at Nasik and Bhagur to its
innumerable branches in many foreign countries, I had myself administered
the oath of all allegiance in person. The martyr Madanlal Dhingra, Lala
Hardayal, Bhai Parmanandji, Chattopadhyaya, Senapati Bapat, the great
historian, Dr. Jayaswal, Tirumalacharya, “Rishi” Aiyar—how many names
can one recount? Thereafter, when I was sent to the Andamans on
transportation for life, I had the company of Pulin Bihari Das, the Chief of
the Anushilan Samiti, Barindra Ghosh of Yugantar Samiti, Upendranath
Bannerjee, Ashutosh Lahiri, Hemchandra Das and other Bengali