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

luckless Hindu ladies would have been saved all their indignities, loss of their own religion, rapes, ravages and other unimaginable persecutions. Our woman-world would not have suffered such a tremendous numerical loss, which means their future progeny would not have been lost permanently to Hinduism, and the Muslim population could not have thrived so audaciously. Without any increase in their womenfolk, the Muslim population would have dwindled into a negligible minority. 456. The sociological explanation for this contention has already been offered in paragraphs 439 to 446. 457. But haunted with the fantastic idea of chivalry to enemy-women and a blind eye to time, place or person, the Hindus of that period never tried to chastise the Muslim womenfolk for their wrongs to Hindu women, even when the former were many a time completely at their mercy. Misplaced Chivalry to Enemy Womenfolk and the Consequent Miserable plight 458. Well, did this misplaced chivalrous idea of the Hindus have any salutary effect on their Muslim foes? Were the latter ever ashamed of their sin of molesting a Hindu woman in view of this Hindu religious generosity and high mindedness? Did the Muslims ever sincerely feel thankful to the Hindus for the safe return of thousands of Muslim women to their own kith and kin? Never! On the contrary, they again and again reciprocated Hindu chivalrous behaviour with the same old treachery and atrocity, and thus held it to ridicule and scorn. 459. On the contrary, the Muslims were puffed up, perhaps with the thought, that if at all the Hindus were to show chivalry to anybody, it should have been to their own Hindu women! It was they who had the first right to such a chivalrous treatment! But if the Hindus could not rescue thousands of their own women who were being abducted, polluted and forced into Islamic religion in their very presence, through centuries, why should the Muslims not ridicule the Hindu chivalrous idea of civility to women, even enemy women? On the contrary, they perhaps thought that the Hindus dared not think of violating or even insulting the Muslim women for fear of horrible reprisals. Thus, they were more likely to misconstrue the Hindu idea of chivalry, than interpret it in the right sense as to have been born of cowardice than of strength and bravery. The Hindus of the Pre-Islamic era never Interpreted Chivalry to Women in this Anti-National silly way