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

CHAPTER III
DELHI
NANA Sahib Peshwa had been to Delhi towards
the end of April and all were anxiously awaiting
Sunday, the 31st of May, agreed upon as the
day of rising. If the whole of Hindusthan had
risen simultaneously on the 31st of May, history
would not have had to wait longer than 1857 to
record the destruction of the English empire and the
victorious Independence of India. But the premature
rising of Meerut benefited the English much more than
the Revolutionaries.¹ It is true that the spirited and

1. "It is certain, however, that if this sudden rising in all
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