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

with an administration of the vows of Vaishnavism. 516. (15) It is well known that the most daring and valiant Shree Shivachhatrapati, who avenged all the wrongs done to the Hindus by establishing a Hindu independent state, himself reconverted Bajaji, Nimbalkar and Netaji Palkar, who had been forced to court Islam. A Counter-Aggression? 517. (16) Towards the end of his career, Aurangzeb opened, with his huge fourfold army, the most determined offensive against the Hindus. Before he fell upon the Marathas, he wanted to crush the Rajputs. But no sooner did he go away to the South, than the Rajputs retaliated with the same vehemence and vigour and made up for the humiliation and numerical losses of the Hindus. The glaring instance of Jodhpur may be cited here. Under the leadership of powerful Maharana Jaswantsingh and the brave Durgadas Rathod, not only the masjids, erected by Aurangzeb on the ruins of Hindu temples, but all other masjids also were razed to the ground and on their site, Hindu temples were built. The Jodhpurian Rajputs reconverted not only the Muslimized Hindus, but as many of the Muslims also as they could on an extensive scale. If the Muslim armies went on throwing beef into the Hindu temples and wells, the Rathod armies cast pork in masjid-after-masjid and paid them in the same coin. Hundreds of Muslim women were converted to Hinduism and married to the Rajputs or were simply kept as concubines, like the Hindu women by the Muslims before them. The whole of the Muslim society in Rajputana was horror- stricken to see this ferocious outburst of Hindu rage. Not merely for the sin of eating and drinking with the Muslims but for having cohabited with and married Muslim women, and even keeping them in their houses, Hindus were no longer socially ostracized. For, at least thirty to forty years, this Hindu retaliatory aggression on the Muslims had spread and glowed, and resounded through town-after-town and village-after-village in the Hindu states in Rajasthan. It is, of course, needless to say that with the decline of the power of the brave Durgadas Rathod, this ferocious appearance of the Hindu society also vanished. Reason? 518. The reason is only this, that the abiding state of the Hindu mind at that time, did not favour religious counter-aggression but social boycott. The innate capacity of the Hindus for Rejuvenation