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

Beginning of Muslim Incursion 319. We have already pointed out—and shall do so hereafter - how the histories written not only by foreign historians or those who are avowedly inimical to us, but even by our own people, ignore the glorious episodes of exceptional valour and monumental successes of the Hindus and in their stead, catalogue only the calamities that befell them and present them as the only true history of the Hindus, because they were never fearlessly written from the pure and simple Hindu standpoint. We have already referred to many such instances, in the first four chapters in support of our convention and will do even in the following pages. The period under consideration here is an instance in point. 320. Generally speaking in all histories, especially in the history textbooks used in schools, the writers invariably jump from an account of Hunnish onslaught to the first successful Muslim campaign on Sindh, without writing even a line or two about the intervening long period of these hundred years or so. Next follow in quick succession, the detailed narration of Muslim invasions one after another, so that a common reader, especially a pupil, catches an impression, which is very often carried even in his later life, that the history of the Hindus is nothing but a doleful tale of foreign subjugation and national defeats. Our enemies have publicized these false impressions as established facts all over the world for the last two or three centuries. For instance, a man like the late Dr. Ambedkar, burning with hatred against Hinduism, writes: “..The Hindus’ has been a life of a continuous defeat. It is a mode of survival of which every Hindu will feel ashamed.” 321. In fact, historical evidence shows that after the total rout of the Huns, that is to say, since about A.D. 550, Hindu kings and emperors successfully crossed the Indus at various places and reconquered not only what are now known as Sindh, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Herat, Hindukush, Gilgit, Kashmir and many other regions from the Greeks, the Huns, the Sakas and other foreign people, but hoisted the victorious national flag of the Vedic Hindus far beyond the north-western boundaries of Chandragupta Maurya’s empire upto Uttar Kurus! Why, even in Khotan in Central Asia beyond Kashmir, there ruled Hindu kings and in the opinion of many historians, even Ghazani was ruled by King Sheeladitya.