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

LUCKNOW
be worshipped as sacred. The moment the foreign power
is destroyed, in order to guard the country from the evils
of anarchy, a constitution liked by the majority of the
people should be at once established and that constitution
should be obeyed with reverence by all. The orders of
all officers thus appointed must be implicitly carried out,
discipline must be observed, individual caprice must give
way to devotion to the principle of the common good and,
if any change in this constitution is thought desirable and
just, it must be attempted only by means of the voice of
the majority. In short, the rule should be Revolution
outside and Constitution within, chaos outside and cosmos
within, sword outside and law within.
These elementary principles of all constitutions so neces-
sary for the success of Revolutions were fairly well ob-
served in the first half of the Rising. Immediately after
the Revolution began, attention was given to organise
administration with all possible speed at Delhi, Lucknow,
Cawnpore, and other cities. In all these big towns, no
impostor set himself up with the desire of individual
aggrandisement. The undoubted hereditary and popular
rulers were set up on the various thrones. These rulers
did not even evince any desire to take advantage of the
Revolution to further their own selfish ends and increase
their power. Nay, more ; written documents are publish-
ed which prove that they were ready to relinquish all
their rights if their persons were in the way of the coun-
try's independence.¹ Thus, in 1857, the first part of con-
structive administration was successfully achieved in a
spirit of adorable nobility. But, in this organisation, the
important and major section being composed of common
sepoys, they began to feel all bonds unbearable when
they had once removed the shackles of foreign rule. And,
at the time of the crisis, all discipline became lax. There-
fore, even those officers, whom they appointed at the first

1. See page 273, above.
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