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

CHAPTER II
THE CHAIN OF CAUSES
IF it is true that the question whether India,
bounded by the Himalayas on the north and
the Ocean on the south, should be completely
independent or not, was being solved on the
battlefields of the war of 1857, then the chain
of causes begins from that day in 1757 when the
question was first raised. On the 23rd of June in 1757,
the question whether India should belong to the Indians
or to the English was openly discussed, for the first time,
on the field of Plassey. On that very day and on that very
field, where it was first discussed, were sown the seeds of
the Revolution. If Plassey had not been there, the War
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