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

rescue camps all over the particular region shall be conducted in large groups under military guard to the holy places adjoining their native places or to Dharwar or Badami or other places where the oppressive Muslim armies have been destroyed by the Marathas. At all these places, shall these oppressed Hindu converts be reconverted to Hinduism en masse. At all these places, sacrificial fires should be lit and offerings made for the repurification of all these millions of Hindu converts, and they should all be received in the Hindu Society ceremoniously with chorus-singing of praises for the Hindu religion. All those who are likely to be willingly, lovingly and honourably received by their original families, should be escorted to their original homes and rehabilitated in those families. But the thousands of other repurified and reconverted Hindus, who may not find such a loving reception in their original sub-castes, should all be classed as a new warrior class in the structure of the Hindu society—अग्निकुल—a fire race according to the Rajput legend—and all the political and religious authorities in the land are hereby ordered to concede to them, all rights due to a Hindu as equitably and justly as the other caste Hindus enjoy. 616. “Then, in order, to reward the meritorious services of the choicest Maratha warriors in this Hindu-Muslim war, at least as many young and beautiful Muslim girls should be captured, converted to Hinduism and presented them, as were the Hindu girls distributed by Tipu amongst the daredevil warriors of his select brigade. 617. “Thereafter, the thousands of Muslim rascals and scoundrels, who have, in this Hindu-Muslim war, inflicted harrowing atrocities on the Hindus, raped Hindu women and girls, have broken holy images of Hindu gods and goddesses and have demolished their temples, and who will have been locked as per the above-mentioned order in various prisons, shall be conducted under strong military guard to the four or five chief cities that will be signified later on by the Superior Officers. They should, especially, be taken to Nargund and Kittur—the places where Tipu himself had inflicted inhuman atrocities on the Hindu men and women with the aid of his diabolic army, so that Tipu’s devilish acts might be avenged with equal ferocity and with the harshest punishments meted out to the daredevil soldiers of his Islamic brigade in the very presence of the afflicted people there. On the appointed day, during the reconversion week, these hundreds of Muslim devils should be brought under strong armed guard of soldiers and cannons to the vast parade grounds and after the charge sheets against