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

Miscellaneous Statements and Writings
The Nepal Movement (1925 A.D.)
Our doubts are traitors.
And make us lose the good we oft might win.
By fearing to attempt.
—Shakespeare
It is very gratifying to note that the Nepal movement has recorded a
satisfactory progress during the last year. A couple of years ago, Hindusthan
as a whole and even the leaders of Hindu thought in general, were totally
unconscious of the far-reaching influence, which the movement is likely to
exercise, if well and ably handled, on the future of the Sanghatan movement.
The Hindu press was too busy in writing columns after columns about the
duty of Hindus owed to the Khalifa in Turkey or the famine-stricken poor
folk in Constantinople. The Hindu public was too much moved at the news
that certain mosques in Syria had fallen in a dilapidated condition and was
busy gathering funds with M. Shaukat Ali to rebuild it and the Hindu leaders
led by the ablest of them, Mahatma Gandhi, who always knows how to lead
and who never knows where to lead, were straining every fibre of their pinny
hands to prop up the Khalifa on the throne of Turkey, whom his own people
wanted to get rid of and were too much occupied in their efforts to save
Mesopotamia and Arabia and Egypt and Syria and, in fact, all the great world
but Hindusthan—to care how Nepal, that only independent Hindu Kingdom
fared.
When the independence of Afghanistan was formally recognised by the
British nation, there passed a wave of enthusiasm over the Hindu press and
the Hindu platform and thousands of Hindus took part in the anniversary
celebrations in memory of that event. But for months, the formal recognition
by the British nation of the independence of the Hindu Kingdom of Nepal
remained entirely unnoticed by the Hindu press. Even the news did not
appear in the majority of the Hindu papers. The Anglo-Indian papers knew
what the recognition meant and noticed it with few suggestive remarks. A
khadi shop opened somewhere in the village in Assam, used to receive more
prominence in the great Hindu dailies and weeklies in Bombay, Madras,
Calcutta and Lahore than the terms of this important treaty, that was signed
between Britain and Nepal, did. We are not exaggerating; matters stood
exactly like that. Nay, even today, a section of the Hindu press is groping as