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

THE ERUPTION
nose of the commander-in-chief, that the body of the
Nabob of Farrukabad should be smeared all over with the
fat of the pig, before he was hanged ?¹⁰ Or that England
which sewed the follower of Islam in the skin
of a pig before killing him ?¹¹ Or the England
which advocated these and hundreds of other similar
crimes as justifiable revenge on the “mutineers” ? Justi-
fiable vengeance ! Whose was the justifiable vengeance
—that of the Panday party enraged and vowing venge-
ance because their mother—the Country—was being
ground down under oppression for a hundred years, or
that of the Feringhi party which was guilty of that Na-
tional oppression ?
Not one individual, not one class, alone had been moved
deeply by seeing the sufferings of their country. Hindu
and Mahomedan, Brahmin and Sudra, Kshatriya and
Vaisya, prince and pauper, men and women, Pundits and
Moulvies, Sepoys and the police, townsmen and villagers,
merchants and farmers—men of different religions, men of
different castes, people following widely different profes-
sions—not able any longer to bear the sight of the perse-
cution of the Mother, brought about the avenging Revolu-
tion in an incredibly short time. So universal was the
agitation ! This fact alone shows that, at this time, the
utmost had been done as far as oppression went. Not
even the class of Government officers—the class that were
individually benefited by the foreign domination—were
on the side of the Government. An English writer says
that to give the list of Government officers who were
seduced would mean the drawing up a list of all the Go-
vernment officers in the disaffected provinces. Exceptions
were rare. He gives the following names as instances:—
Kazi Abul Fazul, Chief Judge of the N. W. P., the
Principal Sudder Amin of Agra, the Munsiff of Agra, the
10. Forbes-Mitchell’s Reminiscences.
11. Russell’s Diary.
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