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

being Muslims, but no one fought for life and religion. Nowhere, can one find evidence to say that some Indian Buddhist army or some Buddhist organization fought with the Muslim invaders any battle worth the name! Majority of Muslims in East Bengal explained 352. The same is the case with East Bengal, where the majority of the population was Buddhist. With some honourable exceptions, the Buddhists there took to Islam en masse. In Delhi, where the Muslim sultans and emperors ruled for over five hundred years, the Vedic Hindus have all along been in a clear majority. The whole of Uttar Pradesh—the northern India— right upto West Bengal—whether under the Muslim administration or the British or the present one, the Vedic Hindus—has all along maintained its numerical superiority. For, even when the Muslims first came conquering, the Buddhists in these provinces were conspicuously few in number. It is only in East Bengal that the Hindus fell into minority. How? Quite obviously! This province had numerically more Buddhists than the Hindus, and those numerous Buddhists became Muslims! It is natural, therefore, that this province alone should become, since then, a Muslim-majority province. 353. Thus, it is the social extinction of the Buddhists in India, which came to pass all of a sudden, which was the inevitable effect of the armed and ruthless might of the Muslim conquerors. The relentless and uncompromising Buddhist ahimsa was done to death by the equally relentless and bigoted Muslim violence! 354. But what happened to the Buddhist cult and Lord Buddha himself in India in the end? Just as a stream separated from the River Bhagirathi, should flow separately some miles away and once again should leap as a tributary into the same Bhagirathi, the Buddhist cult, born out of the Vedic Hinduism, merged in the end in the same Hindu religion; and Lord Buddha himself was established as the tenth of the Godly Avatars and was Hinduized. The Neglected 300 years of Hindu Valour 355-356. In most of the ‘Histories of India’, by foreign as well as by our own writers, and especially in the textbooks of history for Indian schools, the Muslim invasions of India follow so thickly the one of Sindh in A.D. 711 by Mohammed Kasim, and the accounts of the subjugation of province- after-province of India are narrated so hastily, as in one breath, and the whole account is so cursorily given in a limited space of 20 or 25 pages,