भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
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- Under the illusion of preserving the purity of their own caste and religion, the Hindu Society of the Islamic era began to enforce as their religious duty, the bans on exchange of food, on inter-caste marriage and other bans, even when they were harmful to the society. In a similar way and for the same reason of protecting the purity of their caste and religion, the ban on re-purification of the converted Hindus and that on sea-faring, began to be enforced most scrupulously and rigidly as religious injunctions. Neither any single Hindu who was converted under coercion, nor even his progeny could ever come back to Hinduism: their sin (?) had no redemption, no salvation. For generations together, the Hindus believed this to be their inviolable religious injunction; with very rare exceptions, every Hindu, from sweeper to Brahmin, from Chhatrapati (the sovereign) to Patrapati (the holder of a parchment), from Shankaracharya (the Religious Head) to Shankhacharya (the prince of blockheads), whether learned or illiterate, held this opinion about the ban on repurification of the converts unanimously and unswervingly from Kashmir to Kanyakumari.
- On account of these very bans, thousands of our Hindu ladies kindled the fires of johar, century-after-century, in order to avoid violation at the hands of the Muslims. To save themselves from this humiliation of violation by enemies, millions others leapt into rivers, lakes and wells, all over the country and destroyed themselves along with their small children at their breasts. Most bravely, did many others die defiantly refusing to be converted to Islam, like Chahatrapati Samabhaji, Guru Teg Bahadur and many of our Sikh gurus like the martyr Bairagi Baba Banda, who kept on defying the Muslims till the last, even when his body was being cut off limb by limb. How can we ever forget this unprecedented martyrdom unless we are ungrateful to them? Few other communities in the history of the world could have sacrificed their lives on such a vast scale or with such severity as did the Hindus! This martyrdom of the Hindus was not altogether futile in respect of saving their religion from the Muslim onslaught. The heroic tales of their martyrdom have been inspiring generations of the nation to offer their life for protecting the religion, and this is not altogether insignificant.
- Although highly detrimental to the interests of the nation as a whole, and as such deserving the severest of criticism, these various bans like those on exchange of food and sea-voyage and the custom of social ostracism, were all imposed by the Hindus of that period—let it not be forgotten—with the sole noble object of protecting the purity of their caste and creed.