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

authorities, some such order (if not actually couched in the same words) as the following: 610. “Just as the valour of the Maratha warriors had trampled under their feet the Muslim rule of Tipu, in a similar way, in order to bring to the lowest dust the Muslim religious preponderance under the fiendish Tipu, which has so far inflicted every sort of brutality and humiliation on the Hindus and to chastise those guilty of these heinous crimes, our government had decided to attack in return the Muslims on the religious field. 611. “Faithfully following the interpretation of the religious law and the religious code of conduct by Shree Shankaracharya Vidyaranyaswami, whose authority is considered next only to the Very First Shree Shankaracharya by the whole of the Hindu world, we hereby, for the first time, propose to break the psychological ban on reconversion, which has simply paralysed the Hindu society, so far as the retaliation of the tyrannical Muslim religion is concerned, and we hereby order every single official of whatever rank to make the necessary arrangements to enforce the strict observance of the following instructions. 612. “On learning about the forcible conversion of Hindu men and women in his particular jurisdiction, every village and city-officer shall gather together all such oppressed Hindus in some rescue camp under the government protection, and shall attend to all their needs. 613. “Every several Muslim man and woman in every town and village, in whose house or hut Hindu women, girls and children might be found slaving as oppressed converts, shall along with the whole family, be forthwith bettered and thrown into prison, and the miserable Hindu women and children after being immediately set free, shall be affectionately and courteously taken to the rescue camps. 614. “Similarly the warriors from Tipu’s select company of the direst young Muslim scoundrels, whom he fondled as his ‘sons’, shall be fettered with very heavy shackles wherever they will be found in Maharashtra, Karnatak or elsewhere and locked in jails, and the fairest young and innocent Hindu women, who were given away as reward to those Muslim young rogues from this brigade for their brutal atrocities towards the Hindus, should all be rescued and sent with all civility to the said rescue camps. 615. “Finally, a national reconversion week will be announced by a superior officer, before which all the rescued Hindu converts from the