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

Province and Punjab. That the Kingdoms, which were lost to the Muslims, were reconquered by the Hindus sooner or later, is plain history. But the Hindus could never bring back the millions of Hindus who were converted to Islam willy-nilly. We could free from the foreign yoke our geographical regions, but the enormous numerical loss of population could never be made up by the Hindu nation. Change of Religion means Change of Nationality 379. We are now going to discuss at some length some of the religious concepts of the Hindus of those times; of the course of conduct and practices that were considered decent and in conformity with the religious laws of the Hindus of those times, and those that were declared to be against them; and particularly those that deeply concerned the large-scale forcible defilement and conversion of the Hindus that took place during the Hindu-Muslim war. It can be very briefly said here that if the millions of forcibly converted Hindus have remained Muslims even to this day, it is because of the perverse religious concepts of the Hindus of those times, which ultimately proved highly detrimental to the best interests of the Hindu community, viz.—caste-system, the fantastic ideas of pollution, the extravagant ideas of religious tolerance and many other silly notions. Why, these Hindu converts went on increasing enormously generation-after- generation and, as the later generations were born and brought up under the Muslim influence, they began to be more-and-more fanatical—so bitterly fanatical that they formed an appreciable part of the armies of the Iranian, Turkish, Mongol and other foreign Muslim invaders and, with equal hatred and bitterness, they attacked the Hindu Kafirs with a view to destroying them completely or force them to change their own religion and embrace Islam. One out of hundreds of such facts can be cited here to bear out the above remarks. A Hindu tribe, named Ghuri which lived, during the period under discussion, beyond the Indus and which was forcibly made to change over to Islam under precisely the same perilous conditions, became later on, the bitterest enemy of the Hindus. The Hindu-hater, Sultan Mohammed Ghori, belonged to this very Ghuri tribe. In fact, the majority of the Muslim populations of Afghanisthan, Pathanisthan (Pakhtoonistan), Baluchistan were the converted descendants of the original Hindu natives of those places. But, later on, they did not even have the slightest idea that their ancestors were, once upon a time, Hindus. On the contrary, they were enraged at any mention of such descent of theirs and would say: “Bygones