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

kind, at least till that day. And most wonderful of all, was the fact that Sultan Mubarik's supreme commander and chief administrator, Khushrukhan himself, working as he was directly under Sultana Devaldevi's confidential orders, was taken in confidence by the Rajput leaders in respect of this daring plot to establish a Hindu empire! Such a rare concurrence of opposing forces is bound to astound history itself! Stand to reason, it never can, till at least something miraculous happens. 768. But something of the kind did begin to shape itself at the time. In the fiery brains of Sultana Devaldevi and Khushrukhan, there really was seething some such extraordinarily magnificent and by its very nature almost an incredible idea or plan, which seemed possible only to some mysterious intrigue and daring of a Nurshinh! 769. But neither their enemies nor their friends could breathe it openly! For with what magic wand was this supreme commander of Mubarik—the commander, who had brought all the Hindu states in the Deccan to meek submission before the Muslim Sultan-who had very recently devastated the wealthy Hindu kingdom of Malabar and hoisted there the green Muslim flag of the Delhi Sultanate—and who, above all, had come to Delhi to lay down all that success, all that glory, as an humble homage at the feet of the Muslim emperor—how was he, the sole supporter of the India-wide foreign and non-Hindu empire—he, who, born though he was as a Hindu, had become converted to Islam—how was a man of such a status likely to transform so suddenly the whole Muslim empire into a Hindu one? No staunch Muslim could even dare express it openly. Khushrukhan and Devaldevi had been keeping up till the last, the pretence of their being diehard Muslims and of their greatest loyalty to the Muslim Sultan and his empire so scrupulously and thoroughly, that even their direst enemies who had dark suspicions of their having underground connections with the Hindu rulers, feared that were they personally to charge Khushrukhan before the Sultan in Delhi or in the open court, the Sultan would point out proofs to the contrary and outwit them forthwith. Even the top-level Muslim officials feared this eventuality. Whatever complaints had reached the general populace of Delhi of the ears of the Sultan himself were so baseless and completely anonymous, that nobody credited them with any more veracity or seriousness than they would do hearsay report or false accusations by some mischief-mongers!