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

THE STORY OF THIS HISTORY
artistic covers specially printed with such innocuous and bogus
names as "Pickwick Papers," "Scot's Works," "Don Quixote"
etc. Several copies got smuggled in boxes with false bottoms.
It will be interesting to note that one such box, containing a
number of copies under a false bottom, was taken into India by
a youthful member of the Abhi Nava Bharat named Shikandar
Hayat Khan who later on was known to fame as Sir Shikandar
Hayat Khan, the chief minister of the Punjab. Even the
vigilance of the Argus-eyed monster of the Bombay Customs
House failed to spot these devices and thousands of copies did
thus reach their destinations in India addressed to many pro-
minent leaders, members of Abhi Nava Bharat, leading libraries,
colleges and especially to secret sympathisers who had access
to several military camps throughout India. All these copies
of this first edition of this history were sent free, even the
postal charges being defrayed by the A. N. B. Revolutionary
Society. It was then openly published in France, was freely
circulated and widely read by leading English historians, poli-
ticians and revolutionary circles especially in Ireland, France,
Russia, America, Egypt and Germany.
The "Gadar" in America and the second English Edition
In the year 1910, the British and the Indian Govern-
ments launched a violent campaign of persecutions and prose-
cutions with a view to crushing the Abhi Nava Bharat Secret
Society. Several Indian revolutionaries were hanged ; several
transported for life ; hundreds sentenced to terms extending
from ten to fourteen years of rigorous imprisonment. The
heroic story of Veer Savarkar's arrest, escape, re-arrest, perse-
cutions, prosecutions and consequent transportation to the
Andamans for two life-sentences amounting to at least fifty
years' imprisonment, is well-known to be recited here.
No sooner did the Abhi Nava Bharat organisation recover
from this stunning blow than Madam Cama, the well-known
brave Parsi lady, Lala Hardayal, Chattopadhyaya and other
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