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

despising this religious revolution of the Hindus and the Hindu Empire, as often as he sent them to those Muslim officers, who were loyal to him and with a extremely polite treatment, kept them under his obligation. 794. It is because of this exceptional skill of his at diplomacy that even after the successful realization of this religio-political revolution of the Hindus, immediately or for months together thereafter, there was not a single Muslim revolt—no riots nor brawls—throughout the length and breadth of his vast empire. His whole administration was working as smoothly as it did in the days of the old Muslim Sultans. Revenues, taxes or ransoms were collected from all provinces and remitted to the imperial treasury at Delhi without any default. In Delhi itself, the greatest of Muslim knights and feudatory princes, generals and sardars and other courtiers and officers attended the imperial court on the orders of this Hindu Dharmarakshak and took their appointed seats. Of the great Muslim noblemen reported by the historians of the time to be attending the court of this Hindu emperor, Nasir-ud-din, some may be mentioned here: they were Ain-ul-Mulk Multani, Yusuf Safi, Hatim Khan, Kamaluddin Sufi, Faruk-did an-Tughlak, Mulgati, Mohammed Shah, Baharam Anayya, Yuklakhi, Hoshang, Kaphur Saheb. Because of the presence of these big shots in the Hindu court of Nasir-ud-din and because of written letters promising allegiance to the emperor from governors, and administrators and Muslim officers in the army, peace throughout the whole of India was never broken for months together. 795. On the other hand, the Hindu kings from Rajputana to Madurai did not protest, perhaps according to some previous secret pact, against the revolution effected by this Hindu emperor. Why, availing themselves fully of this military coup in Delhi, they began to rule the Hindu States independently as before. Their chief fault was that at this greatest and rarest of opportunities, they did not make a well-organized effort to proclaim the independence of the Hindus and establish a united strong central imperial power at Delhi. 796. Under the circumstances, the shrewd ‘Dharmarakshak’ (Nasir-ud- din) well knew that although at first his Hindu administration was running smoothly, his revolutionary Hindu empire depended on no other thing than his armed might. He, therefore, kept the thousands of his choicest of Hindu soldiers stationed in the capital in all readiness! At every vital centre of defence in his empire, he drafted his most faithful Hindu battalions and also