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

saved the Hindu society from total extinction. Some stray incidents are cited here to show how the Hindus did it. 500. (1) After the Muslims conquered Sindh, the celebrated Bappa Raval of Mevad attacked not only Sindh, but the Muslim strongholds beyond that land and annexed them to his territory. He even went further, as the Rasos (political biographies) of the Rajput princes tell us. He married a Muslim princess, who was captured at the final Muslim rout and kept her in his harem along with his other queens. His offsprings from this Muslim converted princess were respected in the society as born in the family of the Sun god. In respect of this progeny of the King of Mevad, the Hindus of that time did not always act with foolish religiosity of the Marathas, who refused to accept the son of the valiant Bajirao Peshwa from his Muslim wife, Mastani, and forced the child back into the Muslim society. 501. (2) Raval Chechak of Jaisalmir married the daughter of Sultan Haibatkhan named Somaldevi, and established her honourably in his Yadav race. 502. (3) When Kanwar Jagmal, the eldest son of Rao Mallinath Rathod of Marwad, heroically defeated the Muslim Sultan of Gujarat and annexed it to his own domain, he married publicly the daughter of the Sultan, called Gindoli, who was renowned for her exceptional beauty, and established his offsprings, born of her, amongst the high ranked Jagirdars of Marwad and assimilated them amongst the Rajputs completely. 503. (4) Besides all these, the Hindus here and there seem to have effected bold prudent counter-strokes to the terrible calamity of the mass conversions of Hindus by the Muslim aggressors, and foiled their attempts. For instance, Raimal, the King of Marwad captured 600 Muslim women, and after reconverting them to Hinduism, married them publicly to several noblemen of his court. 504. (5) Kumbharana of Mevad likewise defeated the Muslims, taking all the captured Muslim women to his Kingdom. He reconverted them and married them to his noblemen as per their wishes. 505. (6) The celebrated historian of Rajasthan, Major Tod, has narrated many more instances of this type. 506. (7) The different political histories, called Rasos of the Rajput royal families, also mention many instances of this type of conversion and assimilation of Muslim women into the Hindu society.