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

A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW
Singh died in one of the numerous skirmishes in the last
stages of the war.
Thus ended the National Revolution of 1857, in Oudh.
Nowhere in the world has a country fought for its inde-
pendence with more stubborn bravery.
Malleson says : “ They (the people of Oudh) joined in
the revolt inaugurated by their brethren the Sepoys—
the majority of them Oudh men—and fought for inde-
pendence. How pertinaciously they waged the contest
has been told in these pages. No other part of India gave
an example of a resistance so determined, so prolonged,
as did Oudh. Throughout the struggle, the sense of the
injustice perpetrated in 1856 steeled the hearts of its
people and strengthened their resolution. If on some
occasion they too precipitately fled, it was in the hope of
renewing the struggle with some chances of success an-
other day. When, finally, the sweep made over Oudh by
Lord Clyde forced the remnant of the fighting class to
take refuge in the jungles of Nepal, the survivors often
preferred starvation to surrender. The agricultural popula-
tion, the talukdars, the landowners, the traders, accepted
the defeat when, after that long struggle, they felt that it
was final.” ⁹
9. Malleson’s Indian Mutiny, Vol. V, page. 207.
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