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

Chitod, only to collect the ashes of Padmini! When the Hindu warriors and Hindu women fought, they fought thus! 733. It must be told here that before the old Allauddin breathed his last, this defeat of the Hindus was avenged under the very nose of Allauddin in A.D. 1313 by the famous Rajput, Hameer, who conquered Chitod, after inflicting a crushing defeat upon the Muslims. He even captured a son of Allauddin alive —but he was not converted to Hinduism. He should have been, at least, to pay the enemy in its own coin! This is the very same suicidal generosity of the Hindus. 734. In A.D. 1307, this Maliq Kafur, Allauddin’s famed general, was sent by the Sultan to invade the South. Ramdevrao was once again defeated, but he made peace by paying off the accumulated ransom. But during this turmoil, the runaway Princess Devaldevi of Gujarat, who was married to Ramdevrao’s son Shankardev, was captured and sent to Delhi by Maliq Kafur. Soon after in A.D. 1308, he invaded the Deccan for the third time and defeated in a bloody action Raja Pratapdev of Varangal, the heroic king who had once vanquished the Muslims. Raja Pratapdev had to swear allegiance to the Sultanate at Delhi. 735. Flushed at this success, Maliq Kafur marched on the third Hindu State in the Deccan and defeated the Hoysal king there likewise. Kafur’s victorious sword then subdued the remaining Hindu kingdom of Madura. 736. Thus, for the first time, during the past two thousand years, practically the whole of the Deccan passed into foreign and non-Hindu enemy hands! The independence and prosperity of the Deccan came to an end in this year! At the Southern-most end of the Deccan, Maliq Kafur built a fine Masjid as if to commemorate this Muslim conquest of South India. But the Hindu reaction to it was to precipitate the successful Hindu conspiracies against Muslim bondage. 737. Ramdevrao’s son, Shankardev, succeeded him to the throne of Devgiri, and soon repudiated the oath of allegiance to Sultan Allauddin, whereupon Maliq Kafur swooped down on the Deccan once again. Shankardev did not surrender till the last and fought furiously till he was killed. 738. As Allauddin and Maliq Kafur stamped out the Hindu political power from the Deccan during their frequent invasions, they likewise crumbled to dust the huge and magnificent Hindu temples of the South, cut up their golden pinnacles and in majority of the cases, built palatial masjids