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

PART III
THE
CONFLAGRATION
CHAPTER I
THE FIGHT IN DELHI
AFTER declaring her Independence on the 11th
of May, the city of Delhi had been busy in orga-
nising the wild storm that such a bold step had
raised into a systematised revolution. By re-
storing the Emperor of Delhi to the ancient
throne of the Moguls, the citizens of Delhi had
already created a nucleus mighty enough, by the very
prestige of its name, to sustain the struggle of a people’s
liberation. But this restoration of the old Mogul was a
restoration, neither to the old power nor to the old prestige,
nor to the old traditions. Though the raising of the old
Bahadur Shah to the Emperorship of Hindusthan was,
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