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

CHAPTER V
ALIGARH & NASIRABAD
JUST as the tremendous shock was shaking
the whole of North-Western India, towards
Umballa and the Panjab, so also in the
South, another part of the country was trembling
through another of its waves. In the town of
Aligarh, below Delhi, there was the regiment called
the "9th Native Infantry." Some detachments of
this regiment were stationed at Minpur, Itawa, and
Boland. The Government had such confidence in this
regiment, that they thought that it would never revolt
even though all the Sepoys in India should rise against
them. Though the officials heard rumours that, in the
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