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

CAWNPORE AND JHANSI
represent them, the Revolutionaries annexed the Kingdom
of Jhansi to the Ranee's crown as the guardian of her son,
Damodar Rao. They declared: "The Universe belongs
to God, the country to the Emperor, and the authority to
Ranee Lakshmi Bai!" ¹⁶
16. There is an authoritative work on the life of the Queen of
Jhansi by a well-known Marathi historian, and there the able au-
thor has established by an incontestable array of proofs that there
was not the least incitement to this massacre from the young Queen.
This work has a wide circulation and is translated in other verna-
culars in India, and so we think it unnecessary to repeat the argu-
ment once more.
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