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The Rejuvenescent Hindu Nation 322. Even the foreign historians like Vincent Smith are astounded at the enduring ability of the Hindu nation to rejuvenate itself after crushing defeats. For a detailed account of this period and Smith’s glowing tribute to the successful struggle for independence of the Hindus, the curious readers are advised to refer to the concluding portion of Chapter IV of this book. Only one sentence will suffice here. 322A. “After the defeat of Mihirgula (by the Hindus) and the extinction of the Hun power, India enjoyed immunity from foreign attack for nearly five centuries.” 323. Smith has thus completely refuted the extravagant and vulgar remark of Dr. Ambedkar on Hindu history. The Beginning of the awful Muslim War with India 324. It is generally believed that Mohammad Bin Kasim was the first of the Arabian or Muslim invaders to march upon Sindh. But, in fact, it was at least fifty years before him, that other Arabian Muslims had started picking up quarrels with the Brahmin Kings of Sindh. They had even tried an armed aggression. Yet we do not intend to dilate upon the systematic and chronological account of these various skirmishes by armed bands or military detachments. It is enough for our purpose to bear in mind that all these attempts were foiled successfully by the Hindus. At length, Usman, the governor of the Grand Khalipha’s distant province of Oman, openly attacked the Hindu state of Sindh. The then Brahmin King of Sindh, Chacha, vanquished not only these Arabs, but killed their very Commander-in-Chief, Abdul Aziz, in a battle. After these sporadic attempts till about A.D. 640, the Arabs did not undertake any important expedition with perhaps the only exception of the small distant province of Makram, which they reduced to ashes converting the Hindus there at the point of the sword to the Muslim faith. These Hindu Baluchistanian converts of those days became later on bigoted Muslims. The first big Muslim Expedition against Sindh 325. Thereafter, it was in A.D. 711, that Mohammed-bin-Kasim launched the first large-scale offenive against Sindh with a huge army, fifty-thousand strong. The majority of the population of Sindh, then, was Vedic Hindus, with King Dahir at the head of the state, while, only a small minority was the follower of Lord Buddha. Formerly, when Sindh was under the Huns, their last King Mihirgula had persecuted the Buddhists very cruelly,