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

THE INTERLUDE AND THE PUNJAB
One more thing must be told here. Those English
historians who vie with each other in dramatic descrip-
tions of the massacres committed by the Revolutionaries,
attempt at the same time to suppress purposely and cons-
ciously the inexcusable, unprecedented, and inhuman atro-
cities committed by their own countrymen. Before the
massacre of this unfortunate but patriotic regiment,
Heaven alone knows what brutal tortures they were sub-
jected to by the demoniacal English! For English
historians have clean wiped off from history this incident
and left no trace of it at all. Kaye himself says, "Though
I have plenty of letters with me describing the terrible
and cruel tortures committed by our officers, I do not
write a word about it, so that this subject should be no
longer before the world!" Here is a historian, indeed!
What proof have we that the ruffians, who stuffed cow's
flesh in the mouths of harmless inoffensive peasants on the
road to Delhi, did not also cram the throats of these brave
Hindu Sepoys of the 55th regiment in the same manner
before blowing them from guns!
While these inhuman atrocities were going on in the
direction of Peshawar, here, in Jullunder, the smouldering
fire of the Revolution was bursting into flame. John
Lawrence had started the policy of disarming Sepoys
wholesale, in the Panjab ; and Jullunder and Pilhur would
have been so treated long ago but for the admirable self-
restraint and organising power of the Pilhur Sepoys. The
Sepoys in the Jullunder Doab, like their comrades all over
the Punjab, had made preparations for a rising. It was
clearly given out by a patriotic Hawaldar, taken prisoner
in the assault on Delhi, and the Government reports have
recorded the same, that, all over the Jullunder Doab, it
had been decided to rise simultaneously. The plan was
that when the Jullunder army should send a corps to
Hoshiarpur, the 31st infantry should rise and march to
Pilhur ; on their arrival, the 3rd regiment at Pilhur was
to rise and all together were to march to Delhi. Similar
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