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

have resigned themselves helplessly to the Muslim bondage and rotted till death, bringing forth Muslim offsprings! What wonder if they might have borne the bitterest grudge against these unavailing Hindu brethren! 583. On the other hand, the Mullah-Maulvis and the Muslim hooligans and rogues, who had so far disappeared underground for fear of death, very soon came to know that neither those victorious armies, or their chiefs, nor even the rulers and administrators of Hindu states, were going to punish them individually or collectively for all the wrongs they had perpetrated against the Hindus. Being thus assured of safety, they came out boldly and began to move about freely and enjoy, as their legal right, the abducted Hindu women and the plundered Hindu property as their own. It also might have happened that many Hindus had the misfortune to witness meekly with their own eyes, their own daughters and nieces and daughters-in-law slaving as wives or maids in Muslim houses in their own villages and towns. But, strangely enough, neither the Hindu population there nor the Hindu administrators nor again the officers at those places, ever thought of freeing any of those luckless ladies! Hardly any such instance is recorded in history. For, the Hindus had cultivated a shameless religious conceit for over centuries together, to suffer all the heart-rending humiliation without a prick of conscience. Nobody, as a rule, is ashamed of a thing that is not considered blameworthy by the society. Because of the one ban on reconversion, what was this shameless perversion of ideas and emotions to which the Hindu society had brought itself! A heap of Contemporary Documentary Evidence 584. Abundant information in all details is now available about this war with Tipu. Histories written in English by Marshman and others, those in Marathi by Rao Bahadur Sardesai and the contemporary correspondence of the then English diplomats, administrators and political agents and ambassadors have been published. Research scholars such as Rajwade, Parasnis and Khare have brought to light heaps of letters by the Chiefs of the Maratha States, their subordinate officers and ambassadors and agents, of merchants and men of rank in the society, of various people in political, religious and social walks of life. A clear picture paints itself of the daily routine life of the Hindu Society of the time, its habits and customs, its codes of religious, political and social conduct, its ethics and philosophy, if one cares to read the dispatches of the great personalities of the times such as Haripant Phadke to Nana Phadnavis at Poona about his association with