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

Khushrukhan and Devaldevi 743. If the millions of students who are learning history in all the states in the Indian Union today are asked what they know of Khushrukhan, a unique unforgettable character, who was acclaimed as the Sultan of Sultans in the Muslim Sultanate at Delhi, and who was worthy of high praise from the point of view of the Hindus, it is more likely than not, that at least 93 per cent of these millions of students will reply with evident surprise, “Khushrukhan? No, we haven’t come across any major reference to such a man as you describe!” Let alone the students, but even if you were to ask the same question to the teachers in general, to the whole editorial staff of the newspapers in India or even to any educated man or woman, at least 75 per cent of them will very probably reply in the same manner; ‘who is this Khushrukhan? We have never heard even of his name!’ 744. It is for this very reason that we are attempting to give a brief sketch of his life and work, as far as we can do so with the available evidence. For, although he is a unique character in the modern Indian history, his name has been obliterated, as it were, by the Muslim historians and their blind foreign and Indian, Hindu followers, from the textbooks of history used in schools, for his sole offence of putting the Muslim Sultanate to shame in order to avenge the wrongs and insults hurled by them at the Hindu nation. Wherever he has been mentioned, he has been given the most insulting and abusive attributes like, ‘low-bred’, ‘depraved’, ‘a knave’, ‘a hell-hound’ by the Muslim writers. The early history of Khushrukhan 745. When in the reign of Allauddin, Gujarat had to face the first onslaught of the Muslims in A.D. 1298 and the governing authority of the Hindus was much shaken down, in the chaotic conditions then prevailing, a very tender, attractive but very brilliant Hindu youth had been captured and made a slave by the Muslim noblemen and was offered into the service of Allauddin, much the same way and for the same reason as Maliq Kafur was made a slave. This youth was originally a Hindu, belonging to the untouchable caste of Paria of Parwar (sweepers) in Gujarat. One or two Muslim writers deny that he was a Paria (sweeper), but emphatically assert that he was a Rajput. Alter having been captured and converted to Islam, he was first called ‘Hasan’. When he was taken in the service of Allauddin at