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

PART I
The Volcano.
CHAPTER I
SWADHARMA & SWARAJ
IT is a simple truism patent even to the unedu-
cated that the most tiny house cannot be built
without a foundation strong enough to support
its weight. When writers who profess to write
the history of the Revolution that was enacted
in India in 1857 ignore this common sense
principle and do not try to discuss the real causes that
led to it and impudently maintain that the vast edifice of
the Revolution was built on a blade of straw, they must
either be fools or, what is more probable, knaves. Any-
way, it is certain that they are unfit for the holy work of
the historian.
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