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

CHAPTER IV
THE INTERLUDE AND
THE PUNJAB
THE news of the liberation of Delhi travelled with
lightning rapidity, and by its suddenness ab-
solutely staggered for a moment Indians as well
as the foreigners. Englishmen could not even
grasp for a time the meaning of what had come
to their ears. Lord Canning was fast asleep there
in Calcutta, in the certainty that peace was reigning
all over India, and Commander-in-Chief Anson was pre-
paring to go to the cool heights of Simla. When first
Canning got a scrappy telegram to the effect that Delhi
was free, he could hardly believe his eyes. The Indians
were in a consternation quite as much as the Englishmen,
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