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

the Muslim troops, which had sworn loyalty towards him. For, he knew perfectly well that although the Muslims everywhere in his empire obeyed him implicitly and swore alligance to him, sooner or later some rebellious faction amongst them was bound to organize itself and stage a counter- revolution against his pro-Hindu authority! 797. Want of space obliges us to skip over many intervening events. Suffice it to say that the imperial administration, which nobody could have expected to work smoothly even for a day, ran most efficiently, not for a day, nor a month, but for nearly a year, overthrowing the Muslim domination and turning the very same Muslim ‘Takhta’ (throne) which means a ‘Sinhasan’ of a Hindu emperor, and replacing the green Muslim Chand, which had been flaunting almost over the whole of India by the victorious Hindu flag. Millions of Muslims, rich or poor, liege or serf, throughout the whole of India, accepted without a murmur the overlordship (sovereignty) of the Hindu empire. For, at least a year, the great Muslim governors and officers obeyed implicitly the orders of this Hindu emperor and made the common Muslim community do likewise. This itself was a great wonder that glorifies the Hindu history of the times. 798. And another equally great wonder, which condemns the Hindus of the time and those of later times also, is that in the histories written of the Hindu people and by the Hindu people no major reference, let alone grateful reference is made either to this Hindu imperial and religious revolution and to its architect and engineer Dharmarakshak, (Nasir-ud-din)! Whatever few words are written about him are full of censure and ridicule for him and for his acts, in strict pursuance of the Muslim historical writings! Ghyasuddin Tughlak 799. But before this year of amazement elapsed, one or two top-ranking Muslims ventured to hatch a conspiracy to overthrow the yoke of this Hindu Emperor. Secret provocative pamphlets were being circulated and bigoted moulavis were already instigating sedition secretly in their masjids, that it was a grave insult to the whole Muslim world that the Muslim imperial throne should be turned into a Hindu one, and that the Muslims should be forced to bow down meekly before a ‘kafir’, and finally, that it was highly essential for the Muslims to go on a crusade against the Hindu sovereignty in order to end the utter degradation of Islam. But no Muslim ‘amir’, nor military chief, nor any superior officer offered to lead the