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

THE STORY OF THIS HISTORY
Finding thus that it was impossible to get it printed in
India, it was decided to get the Marathi book printed in Ger-
many, where some Sanskrit literature used to be published in
the Nagari script. But after a lot of waste of money and time,
the scheme had to be given up as hopeless, owing to the un-
couth and ugly Nagari type cast in Germany, and to the fact
that the German compositors were absolutely ignorant of the
Marathi language.
The History translated into English
The A. N. B. Revolutionary Party resolved thereupon
to publish, at least, the English translation of this History of
the Indian War of Independence of 1857 with a view to
enabling the English speaking public, both in India and outside,
to know its contents. A few highly intellectual Maratha
youths in London, members of the A. N. B., distinguished
graduates of Indian Universities studying Law, and candidates
for the I.C.S. Examination, volunteered to translate the volu-
minous work into English. After the translation was complete
under the supervision of Sriyut V. V. S. Aiyer, efforts were
made to get it printed in England. But the British detectives,
too, were not idle, and made it impossible for any British
printer to undertake the publication of it for fear of being
prosecuted forthwith. The English manuscript was then sent
to Paris; but the French Government at that time was so
thoroughly under the thumb of England, with whom France
had to ally herself in order to face combinedly the impending
danger of a German invasion that the French detectives were
working hand in hand with the British police to suppress the
A. N. B. revolutionary activities in France; and under their
threat, even a French printer could not be found ready to run
the risk of printing this history. At last by a successful ruse,
the revolutionists persuaded a printing firm in Holland to print
the book. The British Intelligence Department continued to
grope in the dark, as the revolutionists publicly gave it out that
the English translation was being printed in France. Before
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