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Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar

स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा

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  1. But many had been the tumults and turmoils, causing change of rulers before this. Sultan Allauddin himself, was similarly dispatched. Sultan Mubarik had dealt with Maliq Kafur in this very way. The city of Delhi, which was quite used to such turmoils, began to whisper the next morning: “What terrible things happened in the palace last night?”
  2. Within a very short time, only a single proclamation of a political nature gave a violent shock, as that of an earthquake, to the whole capital and brought to it the rude realization that the previous night Khushrukhan’s people had effected at one and the same time, an imperial and religious revolution by putting Sultan Mubarik to death, and it was immediately followed by another that Khushrukhan had installed himself as a Sultan!
  3. However, there was nowhere to be seen any immediate, open and organized opposition amongst the people to this unprecedented revolution. The fact that the new Sultan Khushrukhan married Sultana Devaldevi, the queen of Mubarik, as soon as the latter was killed, stirred the revolutionary curiosity of the people but did not overawe them! For, that was the age-old tradition of the earlier Sultans! Kutubuddin’s widows were married to the latter Sultans who succeeded him, while Allauddin’s and his son’s, Khijrakhan’s widow, this very Devaldevi, was espoused by Mubarik himself. Quite consistent with this time-honoured tradition was this act of Khushrukhan of marrying Devaldevi, the widow of the late Sultan Mubarik, with whom he had established very close contacts much earlier and who was really his partner and perhaps a source of inspiration! Why should it not then seem quite natural to everybody in the state? But...!
  4. But more startling than this was another proclamation made authoritatively and with every political formality by Khushrukhan and Devaldevi, which suddenly turned this political revolution in the royal palace into a religious one of a unique nature. Everybody in India right from the Kings and Nawabs to the Parias and Parwars, Mahars and Mangs was thrilled with a strange sensation at this unique proclamation! The Hindus were thrilled with unlimited joy while the Muslims were filled with the darkest apprehensions. The said proclamation made by Sultan Khushrukhan himself from his throne on the 15th April, 1320 meant to say:
  5. “Although till today I was forced to lead the most detestable life of a convert to Islam, I am originally a son of a Hindu. The mainspring of my