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

BEHAR
started towards Jagadishpur. Kumar Singh was greatly
handicapped and recognised that it was impossible, with
his disheartened followers, to oppose in open battle the
English army, well-disciplined and victorious, and that,
too, near a capital town. He, therefore, decided to use
guerilla tactics and, after two sharp skirmishes, came out
of Jagadishpur. And Eyre, with the English army, pitch-
ed his tent in Kumar Singh’s palace on the 14th of August!
Though the English destroyed the palace, the Hindu tem-
ples, and other buildings at Jagadishpur, still, the idol of
the temples, the king of the palaces, and the owner of the
buildings, Kumar Singh, was as unconquerable after the
battle as before it. Other kings might be cowed down by
the fall of their capitals, but the king of Jagadishpur was
not of that sort. His motto was, “ Wherever I am, there
is Jagadishpur ! ” So, to hold Jagadishpur without cap-
turing him was only a vain endeavour. Now that his
home was lost—the battlefield itself had become his home.
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