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

an eyewitness account of whatever he saw here. According to him, the Hindu borders had stretched far beyond the Indus to include what are now called Kabul, Ghazni and Gandhar. Almost all the Chinese, who came to India during those years, had to cross these Hindu states and the Indus, before they stepped into India. The Chinese of that era called the Hindus ‘Shintsu’ 654. That is why, they in China are referred to India by its most ancient name of Sindhu, and the Hindu people as ‘Shintsu’. It is quite plain that this ‘Shintsu’ was a Chinese corruption of Sindhu. This is yet another proof on the Chinese side that the word Hindu is derived originally from the word Sindhu. The first Arab invasion of Sindh and their defeat 655. Most of the modern histories refer to the Arab invasion on King Dahir as the first invasion, wherein the Hindu King was completely defeated. But this is a blatant falsehood. The first Arab invasion of Sindh took place in A.D. 640, in which the invaders were completely vanquished and their commander-in-chief was killed by the Hindus (cf: paragraph 324). The second major invasion of Dindh by the Arabs 656. But in A.D. 711, however, Mohammed Kasim marched on Sindh at the head of a fifty-thousand-strong army and while facing it bravely, Maharaj Dahir of Sindh was destroyed (cf. paragraphs 327 to 331). 657. But immediately within fifty years of this fall of King Dahir, the Rajputs and specially their leader, Bappa Raval of Chitod, wrested it away from the Arabs and he and other Hindu kings pushed their boundaries right from the Pariyatra Mountain, i.e. Hindukush mountains, Kashmir, Gandhar (which is now called Afghanistan) straight up to Sindhusagar (which we now shamelessly call Arabian sea). This Hindu sovereignty over the vast region lasted for three hundred years. Three hundred years amount to about seven Generations 658. Even when the Hindus held their sway over such a vast region for more than three hundred years and even when Sindh had been reconquered by the Rajputs within twenty-five years of its loss to Kasim. most of the English, as also the Hindu historians, never so much as mention it. On the contrary, great historians, litterateurs, well-known professors, all the world over as also the school-going children, have all along been repeating blindly that right from the time Kasim conquered Sindh, the Muslims