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

5^TH GLORIOUS EPOCH 5. The Climax of Maharashtrian Valour! The Maratha Standard Flutters Proudly Over Attock Nature of the Millennial Hindu-Muslim Struggle 311. The scope of this book, ‘Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History’, has already been explained in Chapter I (Paras: 4 to 8), from which it should be clear that a detailed account of the continuous, long-drawn fierce and gigantic Hindu-Muslim struggle is not intended here. What we intend to do here is to examine thoroughly and from the Hindu standpoint, this epic struggle and the period covered by it as searchingly, as faithfully and as fearlessly, as it ought to have been done—but unfortunately has not so far been done. 312. For even today, it is absolutely essential and beneficial to the interests of the Hindu Nation. Two ages of our History: Ancient and Modern 313. We feel our History is naturally divided by the course of events into two great ages: the Ancient and the Modern; the first, ending with the seventh century, and the second, stretching from the beginnings of the eighth century to the present day. In the preceding four chapters, we have dealt with the vast ancient period of about a thousand years or so, while we intend to analyse, in the following nineteen chapters, the course of events in this modern age of Hindu History. 314. In doing so, detailed accounts of the many stray events supporting our main thesis will certainly be given, where necessary, and the chronological sequences will also be maintained. But the chronological details will not be allowed to crowd up the limited space at our disposal, as they are easily available in various big or small volumes by many other writers. Hence, our whole attention will be focussed mainly on the bearing of different important points in the subject-matter in hand, rather than, though not without regard to, the chronological order. The Epic Hindu-Muslim War