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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पृष्ठ 178, कुल 494 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 178
- In all the provinces in north India, the Hindus in general had to bear the brunt of the Muslim religious persecution only. But the Hindus to the South of Vindhyadri right up to Rameshwaram, had to suffer such horrible persecution not only from the five independent Muslim states, then ruling in the Deccan, but also from the even fiercer Portuguese, whose brutal treatment of the Hindus in order to force them to swear allegiance to the Christian faith, seems to have no parallel. Whoever wishes to understand the whole harrowing story should read [‘Os Hindus De Goa Republica Portuguesa’, by Dr. Antonio Norohna]. Although many great and small volumes of histories describe the horrible religious persecution of the Hindus by these Portuguese missionaries, before which the Muslim atrocities pale into insignificance, this book is particularly mentioned because the writer Dr. Antonio Norohna happened to be a judge of the Portuguese High Court in Goa. The Portuguese happily have the honest habit of preserving all the favourable and unfavourable documents regarding their history, right from the ancient to the modern times, and it is their ancient tradition to make all these available for study to any interested scholar. Naturally, he got every facility to read all those documents and books thoroughly, completely and publicly. That this Portuguese judge of the High Court should write this book after thoroughly studying all the documents, including the original letters of the then ruling Portuguese Emperor, the Portuguese Christian missionaries at that time in India, and the then Pope of Rome, deserves the special merit of this book!
- Besides this book of Dr. Antonio Norohna, one is also recommended to read ‘The History of Reconversion in Gomantak in Marathi’. It was written under the supervision of the late Shree Masurkar Maharaj, who reconverted more than ten thousand Hindus, formerly made Christian under great coercion. The present book ‘Six Glorious Epochs’ is not really a history of India but a critical treatise, so the detailed account of this Portuguese religious persecution and forcible conversion of Hindus, cannot be given here at length. It is enough to say that the detailed discussion (which has here been recorded in the earlier chapters) of the thousand-year- old unprecedented and bitter Hindu-Muslim war since the invasion of Sindh by the Muslims, and the suicidal consequences of the various harmful and anti-national bans self-imposed by the Hindus on eating, drinking, touching, intermarrying and especially, that on re-purification and reconversion of the polluted Hindus, and many other foolish religious concepts of the Hindus of