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

CHAPTER VIII
CAWNPORE & JHANSI
LET us now leave aside, for a moment, the bloody
stream of the Revolutionary Ganges flowing
about violently on the fields of Northern India
with the holy desire of saving our forefathers
from the bottomless pit of slavery, and turn to
the events happening at its source at Haridwar.
About the time of the Meerut rising, there were assembled
a larger number of Revolutionary leaders in the palace of
Nana Sahib than could be found, at the time, in the palace
of Lucknow, in the Subah at Bareilly, or even at the
Dewan-i-Khas palace at Delhi. The Revolution of 1857 was
conceived in the palace at Brahmavarta. It was there
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