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

CHAPTER IX
OUDH
SINCE Dalhousie annexed Oudh, the people of
that province had been sinking deeper and deeper
in misery. After Oudh lost her independence,
all the offices of honour, power, and wealth in
the Nabob's Kingdom were given to Englishmen,
and the Swadeshi men had to go to the wall.
The Nabob's army was disbanded, his nobles were driven
into poverty, his ministers and other officers lost their
positions and were pushed to the low ranks of wage-
earners ; and all of them entertained a rankling hatred of
the slavery which destroyed their country and reduced
them to such a state. The sting of slavery was felt not
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