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

on their sites, forced thousands of Hindus to be converted. These innumerable converted Hindus made big farming and feudal estates in this Deccan itself. But Hindus, however, did not massacre these Muslims nor did they destroy them outright as and when they subdued the Muslim power later on. This is what we call the perversion of the concept of virtues! Most often the Hindus used the same War strategy of the Muslims, according to the Military Science of the time 739. On the religious front, the Hindus were, thus, being vanquished mostly because of their own foolish religious concepts and traditions, but on the political front, they were fighting with the Muslims as they ought to have done! Even after being completely overcome, they rose again and again and defeated the Muslims! Craftiness and cunning were generally matched with the same strategic moves by the Hindus! 740. Allauddin surpassed every other Sultan before him in cruelty in the persecution of the Hindus. He would have reached greater heights in cruelty in respect of his treatment of the Hindus, had he not been forced to fight on the other front with the Mongols, who unceasingly hurled their armed might against the western borders of India and caused a great turmoil throughout Mongolia and Cenral Asia. A few of them took to Islam and formed a new Muslim colony in Delhi itself. At last, the enraged Allauddin cut off the whole of this new Muslim colony to a man! Death of Allauddin 741. Allauddin was the first and the last Muslim Sultan to rule over practically the whole of India with the exception of some Hindu states like those of Chitod and others. Neither Akbar nor even Aurangzeb can take that place, as their territories never equalled those of Allauddin. 742. But in his old age, Allauddin was surely afflicted by his bodily diseases, which were the outcome of his physical vices. Naturally, he became a tool in the hands of Maliq Kafur, and in that miserable state, this valorous but Hindu-hater Sultan died of dropsy in A.D. 1316 or as it is said, Maliq Kafur killed him or had him killed. His ‘Allah’ could not bless him with a happy death because of his virtue of Hindu-hatred! In a few days Maliq Kafur, a one-time slave of Allauddin, usurped the whole power of Allauddin, but in the political chaos that ensued after Allauddin, he was soon killed. In the turbulent days that followed, a certain Khushrukhan of exceptional abilities, who had been shining in the diplomatic circles at