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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- But the Hindu kings and Hindu people in general did not openly support this Hindu political revolution. They were, however, inwardly proud of it and overjoyed at it. They did appreciate this utter humiliation and ruination of the Muslim Sultanate at the hands of this Hindu Dharmarakshak ‘Nasir-ud-din’. The Hindu kings and the Hindu society at large nevertheless refrained from attempting any open revolt. The one reason why the Hindu Society failed to attempt the establishment of a Hindu Empire at this most opportune moment, was that the Hindus harboured serious doubts whether this undreamt of revolution would succeed. If that revolution were to fail, they feared, the followers would never escape complete annihilation. So, the Hindu community only waited. Secondly, the entire Hindu society never approved of the mass conversion of Muslims to Hinduism that was effected in and around Delhi as a sound religious practice! The Hindu Dharma of the day meant ban on reconversion, not reconversion! Religious tolerance had been their religion because of their perverted sense of values; their religion never brooked either the demolishing of masjids or converting the Muslims to Hinduism. This sort of reactionary measure was considered by the Hindus to be the greatest sin! So, who could have predicted that the Hindu society itself would not oppose tooth and nail this religious revolution? That possibility could not be ruled out altogether! Muslim opposition to this revolutionary change, however, in the imperial government and religion was quite natural.
- Under these circumstances, Dharmarakshak (Nasir-ud-din) refrained from any further atrocities or revenge upon the Muslims in Delhi or elsewhere in the empire, considering that his religious and political revolution in Delhi was in itself so daring as to put the Muslim power to shame, and so he was satisfied that the Hindu society had now become strong enough to relish and digest such a revolution! And this was not a small achievement! The next step could be deferred to a later date! The next favourable opportunity would most certainly be availed of. He did not, therefore, think it wise to stretch things too far so as to cause a complete break.
- On the other hand, as had already been told (in Paragraph 784), he allowed the Muslim soldiers and peasants and civilians equal rights to the new facilities and exemption from taxes, which he did in the case of Hindus. Moreover, he kept on sending extremely valuable presents to those Muslim officers and Mullah-Maulvis, whom he suspected to be secretly