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

PART II
THE ERUPTION
CHAPTER I
SHAHID MANGAL PANDAY
[O] F all the surprising incidents connected with the
Revolution of 1857, the most striking was the
secrecy with which the vast movement was
organised. The clever English administrators
had so little information about the source of the
movement, even after the tremendous revolutionary
upheaval all over Hindusthan, that, even a year
after open mutiny had broken out, most of them
still persisted innocently in the belief that it was due to
the greased cartridges! The English historians are now
beginning to understand that the cartridges were only an
incident and they themselves now admit that it was the
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