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

present Mubarik, and to establish in its place overnight, most unexpectedly, a Hindu empire all over India. It was a religious revolution inasmuch as it sought to pull down the enthroned Muslim religion and to supplant it by the Hindu Vedic religion. 773. That such a perfect revolution was most difficult—almost impossible —to be accomplished, even if Hindu-Muslim wars were to be fought continuously for five hundred years, was quite plain from the Arab invasions of Sindh in the seventh century and the later history of Muslim invasions, till the time of Allauddin. But such a complete revolution was in fact brought about by the exceptional genius of Khushrukhan and Devaldevi, even if it was only for a short while! 774. Had not the Muslim Sultanate conquered the Hindus completely by hard fighting for centuries together and turned their country wholly Muslim? Then if Khushrukhan were able to wrench the imperial authority from the single Sultan and if he were to ascend the throne of the Delhi Sultanate in the name of Hinduism, then the whole of the empire would necessarily be a ‘Hindu’ one, with one stroke! Then the Muslim Sultan would necessarily become a Hindu emperor. This feat was as daring in planning as it was easy in execution under those circumstances! It was quite possible too. It is this magic wand that Devaldevi, originally a Hindu princess, and Khushrukhan, the original Hindu Paria youth wielded, which worked as an unparalleled miracle not only in Indian but in the whole human history! 775. Having arranged every minute detail of the future revolution most secretly, Khushrukhan humbly requested Sultan Mubarik, who had willingly allowed himself to be governed completely by the former: “The thousands of Hindus of my caste whom I have stationed in Delhi want to be converted to Islam with proper religious ceremony; but they are fighting shy of doing so openly in the city. Some of them are really afraid to do so. Hence, I wish to bring the choicest amongst them into the palace today and convert them in due course.” Under this pretext, Khushrukhan brought the hundreds of his bravest Hindu warriors in Delhi into the palace and housed them in the barracks for the imperial guards. One day in A.D. 1319, at the dead of night, suddenly there was a great turmoil in the palace in the midst of which Sultan Mubarik was killed.