१८५७ का स्वातन्त्र्य समर (वीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर - अंग्रेजों द्वारा छपने से पूर्व प्रतिबन्धित महाग्रन्थ)

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red ! The very touch of the lotus flower makes every
heart bloom. When the Sepoys, hundreds upon hundreds,
were passing on rapidly from hand to hand this lotus
flower, the eloquence of it must have been full of wild
suggestions and wilder aspirations. “ The red lotus really
made all the people one ; for, in Bengal, both the Sepoys
and agriculturists were found giving expression to this one
sentiment, ‘ All is going to be red ! ’, with a movement of
the eyes which betrayed an extraordinary, mysterious
pregnancy of meaning ”.²⁰ ‘ All will be red ’—with what ?
This red lotus and this suggestive sentiment had made
all “ one-voiced ” as far as individuals were con-
cerned. But, it was also necessary to make all the prin-
cipal nuclei one-voiced through mutual visits. So Nana
came out from the palace of Brahmavarta to link together
into one chain the various links—the nuclei of the orga-
nisation. With him started his brother, Bala Sahib, and
his amiable and witty councillor, Azimullah. And why
did they start ? “ For a pilgrimage ! ” Indeed ! A Brah-
min and a Moslem are starting together, arm in arm, to
visit the holy, religious places,—an event without a
precedent !
This was in the March of 1857. Most essential was
it now, indeed, to visit at least once the places of pilgrim-
age—and the first that they visited was Delhi. Only the
Dewan-i-Khas or, perhaps, the atmosphere of Delhi could
speak about the accents with which the consultations were
carried on ! At this very time, a judge of Agra, one
Mr. Morel, came to see Nana. The latter gave him such
a hearty welcome that he did not have the least suspicion
about the different kind of welcome which Nana was busy
preparing for the English and which he was going to offer
within a month or two. After supervising all arrangements
at Delhi, Nana went to Umballa. On the 18th of April,
20. Trevelyan’s Cawnpore.
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