भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

time, India was being vivisected unwittingly between two parts: the Hindu India and the Muslim India! 605. THESE BIG OR SMALL ISLAMISTANS WERE REALLY THE TIME BOMBS LAID BY THE CONVERT MUSLIM RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY IN THE FOUNDATION OF THE HINDU POLITICAL SUPERSTRUCTURE! 606. Yet neither the Hindu rulers, nor the common people, nor even the historians of the time seem to have apprehended, acutely or even faintly, the instantaneous or the belated consequences of this tremendous loss of numbers and territory. For, nobody else has so far tried, as we are doing here, any bold, lucid and comprehensive historical exposition of this loss of numbers and territory that the Hindu nation had to suffer because of the morbid Hindu religious concepts of various bans and their perverted sense of virtues! If at all there be any such attempt, it is bound to be an exception. 607-608. Moreover, had the Hindus at that time really understood the full significance of the above-mentioned evil consequences of the Muslim religion dominance, the Maratha government would have immediately and definitely launched a counter-religious aggression upon the Islamic faith in the south, the moment its leader, Tipu, was politically vanquished. For, the Hindus had never before had such a completely favourable opportunity as they had it then, to launch such a counter-offensive on the religious front. Throughout the whole of India, there was left no Muslim power at that time, which could even so much as think of opposing the Marathas, as we have already pointed it out, and as our contemporary bard sings in one of his heroic ballads with evident pride for Hinduism— जलचर हैदर निजाम इंग्रज रणकरिता थकसे। ज्यानि पुण्याकडे विलोकिते ते संपत्तिता मुकते॥ [The pirates (meaning the Portuguese), Hyder, the Nizam, the English all were exhausted fighting (with the Marathas). Whoever looked (with enmity) at Poona, lost their wealth!] Devil can be Fought by arch-devil only 609. Suppose, as soon as this propitious time had come, the Maratha Chieftains such as Bhonsale, Holkar, Patwardhan, Raste and others, who had fought against Tipu, the Maratha administrators, the Peshwa and the Chhatrapati, had promulgated, in consultation with the prominent religious