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

CHAPTER IV
AYODHYA
WE have no hesitation in saying that Lord
Dalhousie is one of those Indian administrators
who are accused of more sins of administration
than they are really guilty of. Officers like
Dalhousie are nothing more than mouthpieces
of tyranny. They merely execute the commands
of the 'Home' authorities. To refer all responsibility for
tyrannous misdeeds committed in India to such mouth-
pieces would be as unjust as it is irrational. Dalhousie was
purely a creature of the circumstances in which he was
placed. The major portion of the responsibility, for good
as well as for evil, therefore, rests on those who created
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