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

CHAPTER X
THE SUMMING UP
WHAT effect had this spirit of freedom which
inspired life in the dead or dying thrones of
Delhi, Cawnpore, Lucknow, and Bareilly on the
other states which were still, more or less, living?
The mass of the people, in 1857, had thoroughly
understood that, so long as foreign domination over
Hindusthan remained, the living states were as useless
as the dead ones were lifeless. The Revolution in 1857,
inspired by the holiest and the highest ideal of freedom,
was not fighting furiously for the sake of this king or that
heir. Individuals—peasants or kings—may live or die,
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