भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
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पृष्ठ 181, कुल 494 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 181
- Whatever instances we have quoted of the Hindu religious counter- aggressions so far in this chapter are, of course, only exceptions, considering the many centuries of the Hindu-Muslim epic war. They were inadequate attempts to patch up the shattered firmament. But it is because some Hindus performed brave deeds, befitting the valour of the Hindu nation, of retaliation to the Muslims on the religious front, that the Hindu side was not completely overthrown. The Muslim enemy always feared that even the Hindus also could avenge religious persecution on occasions. If without losing any time, the whole Hindu society had adopted the same military strategy on the religious front as these exceptions of Hindu heroes did in launching counter-offensive, not a single Muslim could have remained as a Muslim in this country—at least at that time. This, we have often shown in earlier chapters of this book.
- But then why didn't all the other Hindus dare do so? Why were they afraid? Why did they feel it to be against their Hindu religion itself, to launch such armed counter-offensive against the Muslims? Why did they come to consider the various bans on repurification, sea voyage, eating and drinking and others, as the true religious codes of conduct for the Hindus? The answer to all these questions—the justification of their conduct—the Hindus of those times offererd, was that such an armed retaliation would not have been beneficial to the best interests of the Hindus, nor did it become the Hindu civility—Hindu culture! They meant to say that in those times of repeated terrific Muslim onslaughts if the Hindu kings and society had reconverted their unfortunate brethren, who were converted to Islam, or would have launched counter-attacks on the religious front and again, as we have suggested, converted the Muslim men and women to Hinduism, the Muslims would have been still more enraged and again-and-again in their fresh attacks, they would have wrecked far more appalling vengeance on the Hindus. It was this fear, they said, that prompted the Hindus to accept, as an exceptional code of conduct suitable for the adverse circumstances, those various bans and the morbidly perverted concept of virtues, which amounted really to abject surrender. 553A. So, in order to refute these and other illogical arguments, and to support our arguments and opinions and the various references we have made in the foregoing discourse, we shall cite another event, which will go to prove conclusively our inference that the HINDUS HAD THE ABILITY AND STRENGTH TO LAUNCH ARMED COUNTER-OFFENSIVES