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

in the minds of Khushrukhan and Devaldevi, it must have been kept highly secret with utmost caution. 761. Very soon, Mubarik sent Khushrukhan to the Deccan for an extensive conquest but he himself did not go with him. So complete was his faith in Khushrukhan! In this expedition, Khushrukhan subdued the King of Malabar too, and exacted therefrom immeasurable plunder in the name of Sultan Mubarik! But 762. But in this very campaign of South India, various open or secret Hindu conspiracies against the Muslim empire began to brew up from various quarters of the South Indian peninsula. The royal Hindu families of Varangal and Gujrath, the valiant Rana Hameer, the redeemer of Chitod, and other Hindu Chiefs, the religious leaders and propagandists in the various religious institutions and monasteries like those of the Shankaracharya and even the common people were becoming restless and agitated with a common antagonism to the Muslim domination. And anonymous complaints by Khushrukhan’s enemies had reached the ears of the Sultan of Delhi to the effect that Khushrukhan was in some mysterious way and most secretly connected with this universal discontent! 763. So, scanty and self-contradictory bits of information are available in the writings of the contemporary Muslim writers about this Khushrukhan, the conqueror of Malabar, and the whole of the Muslim empire, that we have to correlate them into some sort of consistent account, only as far as it is possible from the later happenings! Once in the open court of the Sultan at Delhi there was a rumour, which apprehended that instead of coming back to Delhi amongst the ring of his adversaries, Khushrukhan was about to escape to some neighbouring foreign island by sea with the immense wealth he had amassed in the South. One Muslim writer has gone to the length of saying that Khushrukhan was brought back to Delhi in fetters! 764. With an exceptional daring and ability to cut off the strings of the net of inimical conspiracies with one stroke, Khushrukhan at once declared his intention to go back to Delhi in the grand manner of the conqueror of the South with all his army. For, his secret accomplice, the former Hindu princess but now the Muslim empress, Devaldevi, must have been keeping him posted with every detail of the daily happenings at Delhi! 765. From the few English translations of the Muslim books of the time that are now available, even those who do not know either Persian or