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

THE STORY OF THIS HISTORY
even informed the Congressite ministers of their intention.
The Ban Raised at Last after some Forty Years of Proscription
When matters came to this pass and as the Government
too was inclined to reconsider the question, the ban on
Savarkarite literature as a whole, which continued to be pros-
cribed for some forty years in the past, was raised by the
Congressite ministry at long last, upon which sane act they
deserve to be congratulated.
“ The Book became the Bible of the Indian Revolutionists ”
It will be evident from the story as recited above that the
book continued to be regarded as a veritable Bible by the In-
dian Revolutionists ever since the armed struggle for Indian
Independence initiated by the Abhi Nava Bharat bands down
to recent times when full-fledged armies marched to the battle-
fields under Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Directly and in-
directly the book has influenced, animated and guided at least
two generations in India in their struggles to free the Mother-
land. That is why the Nation itself made it a point of honour
to keep the book alive as a national asset in defiance of the
violent efforts of the foreign government to suppress and kill
it. Its survival despite of it all is almost miraculous.
Miraculous too is the survival of its illustrious author who,
in spite of untold sufferings and sacrifices, trials, tribulations
and transportations, has been spared by Providence to witness
the triumphant march of the Revolutionary principles and pro-
grammes which he as .a SEER preached and as a WARRIOR
fought to carry out.
The Book Pays our National Debt to the Memory of
the Warriors of 1857
We cannot do better than to quote Shrijut Subbarao, the
gifted editor of the ‘Gosthi’ to illustrate the above truth :
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