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

THE VOLCANO
fair and what looked beautiful is seen to be deformed.
And expectedly, or unexpectedly, but in a clear form, the
Revolution comes into the light of real history.
The history of the tremendous Revolution that was
enacted in India in the year 1857 has never been written
in this scientific spirit by any author, Indian or foreign.
And hence there are current throughout the world most
extraordinary, misleading, and unjust ideas about that
Revolutionary War. English authors have committed, in
this respect, all the faults noted above. Some of them
have not made any attempt beyond merely describing the
events, but most of them have written the history in a
wicked and partial spirit. Their prejudiced eye could not
or would not see the root principle of that Revolution. Is
it possible, can any sane man maintain, that that all-
embracing Revolution could have taken place without a
principle to move it? Could that vast tidal wave from
Peshawar to Calcutta have risen in flood without a fixed
intention of drowning something by means of its force?
Could it be possible that the sieges of Delhi, the mas-
sacres of Cawnpore, the banner of the Empire, heroes
dying for it, could it ever be possible that such noble and
inspiring deeds have happened without a noble and ins-
piring end? Even a small village market does not take
place without an end, a motive ; how, then, can we believe
that that great market opened and closed without any
purpose—the great market whose shops were on every
battle field from Peshawar to Calcutta, where kingdoms
and empires were being exchanged, and where the only
current coin was blood? No, no. The market was neither
opened nor closed without a purpose. English historians
have always ignored this point, not because it is difficult
to ascertain it, but because it is against their interests to
admit the truth.
Even more deceptive than this indifference, and one
which changes or distorts the whole spirit of the Revolu-
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