भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
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पृष्ठ 248, कुल 494 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 248
- As soon as he came to Dehli, Sultan Mubrarik did not put him under heavy fetters and custody, as his Muslim enemies had expected, but being extremely pleased with the immense treasure Khushrukhan had laid at his feet and the unlimited power he had gained for the Delhi Sultanate, Mubarik, on the contrary, conferred upon Khushrukhan the administrative, military, civic and all other residual authority. And if he had put anybody under arrest, it was the great Muslim noblemen and Khankhanas of the court, who were dismissed for charging Khushrukhan unreservedly. 770A. On the other hand, in the regime of Khushrukhan as the chief administrator, the strictest bans against the Hindu introduced by Allauddin in former days were now being gradually relaxed; the exploitation of the Hindu-Muslim farmers, and the people in general, also was stopped; the Hindus, too, got much relief in matters religious; the common discontent amongst the subjects against the tyrannical rule of the emperors was on the wane. And the whole credit of this comparatively happy state of things began to go very naturally to Khushrukhan, who was the chief of the imperial administration at that time. Gradually, by Sultan, the common people came to understand, not the vicious and good-for-nothing Mubarik, but his all-in-all, valiant and popular administrator, Khushrukhan, and behind him loomed the Sultana, Devaldevi, with whose internal and open support he could wield this authority.
- The Hindu began to look upon Khushrukhan as their saviour; even though he was still a Muslim, because he had set them free to a great extent from the vexatious taxes and restrictions imposed on them by Allauddin and the untold humiliation they had to undergo. Khushrukhan began to be popular amongst the Muslim farmers and other citizens, because of the relief they got from heavy taxes. And, above everything else, because of his military exploits, which had resounded throughout the whole of India and his superb adroitness in statecraft, many of the high-ranking Muslim noblemen had enlisted themselves on his side.
- Seeing such a favourable opportunity, Khushrukhan and Devaldevi thought the right moment had come for them to proclaim boldly their grand scheme of a politicial revolution—for one who hesitates to undertake this hazard under favourable circumstances must be a coward, who would accomplish no daring feat! It was not merely a coup d'etat in a small state; it was an imperial revolution, which sought to subvert the India-wide unitary and danger-free Muslim empire of the late Allauddin and of the