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

insurrection. Ultimately, the administrator and governor of Punjab under the Sultan of Delhi, by name Ghyasuddin, aspired to shoulder that responsibility. He began sending secret emissaries and epistles to that effect to various higher Muslim authorities under Sultan Nasir-ud-din. Ghyasuddin himself had sworn allegiance to the Sultan and was appointed military Governor of Punjab, while one of his sons was an officer at Delhi itself under the direct control of this ‘Hinduised Sultan’. Ghyasuddin called this son of his for a private visit under some pretext, and gathered every sort of minute detail about the situation in Delhi in his private interview with that son. Whereupon he came to know for certain that after the murder of Allauddin, his sons and relatives were either killed or deprived of their eyesight and thus rendered useless. When he was thus satisfied that there was no proper heir of Allauddin’s for the Sultanate at Delhi, he was all the more elated to declare boldly, that as there was no proper heir left from the house of Allauddin’s, it was only some powerful Muslim who could lay claim to the throne at Delhi. That kafir Hindu Paria was not to be suffered to touch it even. That kafir had married all the widows of all the earlier sultans and the young Muslim girls and maidens from the royal palace to the Parias (sweepers), whom he had formerly raised to eminence, and converted all those ladies of the Muslim royal families to Hinduism. As no Muslim dared to dethrone such a sinful Hindu kafir, he himself was going to shoulder the responsibility. 800. For the first time, these secret letters of his were turned down with spite by the top Muslim officers, while some others placed them into the hands of Dharmarakshak Nasir-ud-din himself, who having already apprehended such an eventuality and undaunted by it, calmly prepared himself to crush this rising of Ghyasuddin immediately. Good many Muslim generals, who had acknowledged him as a Sultan, enlisted their forces in his service while the Hindu section of that imperial army was always ready to fight at the cost of their lives under his standard. 801. At last, depending chiefly on the Muslim battalions, which were employed under his command for the protection of Punjab and the frontiers, Ghyasuddin decided to march upon Delhi. Some Hindu soldiers, too, were amongst those advancing Muslim forces. No sooner did he hear that Ghyasuddin was marching towards Delhi than the Hindu Emperor— Dharmarakshak Nasir-ud-din himself—attacked him with his whole imperial army. Along with this Hindu Emperor, marched the great Muslim