6_Glorious_Epochs_of_Indian_History

€TH GLORIOUS EPOCH 469
the oath of allegiance in person. The martyr Madanlal
Dhingra, Lala Hardayal, Bhai Parmanandji, Chattopadhyaya,
Senapati Bapat, the great historian, Dr. Jayaswal, Tiruma-
lacharya, 'Rishi' Aiyar—how many names can one recount ?
Thereafter when 1 was sent to the Andamans on transpor­
tation for life I had the company of Pulin Biharidas, the
Chief of the Anushilan Samiti, Barindra Ghosh of Yugantar
Samiti, Upendranath Bannerjee, Ashutosh Lahiri, Hemchan-
dradas and other Bengali revolutionary conspirators, as
fellow-convicts". Nearly a hundred or more Sikh and non-
Sikh revolutionaries of the Gadar Party and other societies
who were originally sentenced to death but whose sentence
was, later on, commuted to deportation also came along
with us to the Andamans to serve their terms and stayed
therewith us suffering unbearable innumerable hardships and
torture for years together for the sacred cause of the libera­
tion of our motherland. Subsequent to my release from the
Andamans I again came into very intimate contact with the
millions of the avowed believers in Hindutwa in the great
organizational movement for the solidarity of the Hindus as
a staunch opposition to the fanatic Muslim activioies which
was a natural concomitant to the armed revolutionary work
against the British. For want of space it is impossible even
to mention their names ! But a special request has to be made
just here lest the omission of their names might be mis­
understood to be due to their work being less important in
•comparison to that of the others whose names are herein
mentioned.
1124. Ever since the sixteenth year of my life—the
time when I began to take part in politics—I have been
personally and closely connected—at times as a vehement
adversary—with all the above mentioned four phases of
Indian political life—the Loyalists, the non-violent but
vehemently nationalistic, the revolutionist and finally the
Hinduistic—subsequent to the defeat in the war of Indepen­
dence of 1857. As such the compilation and interpretation
from the Hindu standpoint of the history of the period has