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Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar

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पृष्ठ 135, कुल 494 में से

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पृष्ठ 135
  1. An exile from any one caste of the Hindus never lost his Hindu society nor his Hindu religion; he could merge in any one of the many other Hindu castes or could form a new caste of similar outcastes. But this new caste of such outcastes formed an integral part of the Hindu society. There was a change of caste but never a change of religion—nor even a change of society. Why then speak of a change of nationality? The above-mentioned Vaishya, for instance, lost his Vaishya caste, but his being a Hindu remained unimpaired. Naturally, this sort of banishment from one caste to the other in the Hindu society, never caused any numerical loss to it.
  2. Only one extract from the many ‘Tavarikhs’ (histories) written by various Muslim writers should serve as a sample to show how miserable the Hindu converts were! 415-417. Of the hundreds of Hindus taken as slaves and sent to Persia, Turan (Turkey) and Arabia, at the time of the invasions of Mahmud Ghazni, some could give the slip, individually or in groups, and would run away to Punjab, which because of the staunch Hindu resistance, remained the extreme limit of Muslim domination for over a century or so after Mahmud Ghazni. Thereafter, these runaway Hindu converts would escape even from Punjab and enter the neighbouring Hindu states of Rajputana for shelter, and were glad at heart that they were at last free from the Muslim clutches and that they would live happily in Hindu families, in their own temples and in their own society!
  3. But when, according to the same custom, a Hindu, banished because of some sort of (so-called) illicit contact with any Muslim, would cease to be a Hindu altogether, and as thousands of such Hindu men and women were, often enough being converted under coercion by the Muslim aggressors, and as they were all without any exception, thrown out of the Hindu society, it was the Hindu society that suffered huge numerical losses year after year!
  4. But alas! they were grossly disappointed because of the ban on reconversion and rehabilitation of these caste-outs! These groups of runaway Hindu converts would come to these Hindu states only to find that not only their own, but no other Hindu state was prepared to accept them in their fold. If at all they wished to live in the Hindu states, these men and women of the runaway shelter-seeking groups had to live as Muslims alone! Later on, when after a century or so, the Muslim armies began to make successful expeditions upto Delhi and central India, they were very much