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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- This is why even during those thirty or forty years of Ghazni’s raids, India as a whole can never be said to be slaving under the foreign heels. Of course, we do not deny that a small part of the north-western Punjab was annexed by Ghazni, establishing political as well as religious ascendancy firmly over there. However, it must also be borne in mind that even at that time, Kashmir was a Hindu state. Hundred-and-Fifty years after the death of Mahmud of Ghazni in A.D. 1030
- A hundred-and-fifty years, i.e. about five generations after A.D. 1030, the whole of India, right from Kashmir to Assam and Burma in the north and Rameshwaram in the South, was politically independent, powerful and prosperous as before. Great preachers, saints and mahants and priests following the path of Shree Shankaracharya were, along with Smritikars Deval and Medhatithi, leading the cultural life of the whole of India and its overseas colonies. Sanskrit was the Indian priestly language throughout. Kashi was the cultural centre of the whole Hindu nation. The great wounds suffered by our Hindu nation on the political front during the raids of Mahmud of Ghazni were healed up by rulers dining these years. If the temple of Somnath was rebuilt on this side, new sky-high temples like that of Bhuvaneshwar and religious centres in Orissa and Assam rose to their full glory. The Hindu mastery of the Eastern, Western and the Southern seas, their trade and commerce, to-and-fro movement of thousands of their troops, their royal visits and return visits up to Maxico in the far east and to Africa in the west, continued unhampered and, therefore, the Indians overseas could keep constant contact with their motherland, and thereby prospered materially as well as culturally.
- Can any Hindu-hater dare say, therefore, of this period at least, that the whole of India was rotting in abject slavery?