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

gained by his generals and to rule that region effectively, that he thought of having his capital in its very midst. Again, his precipitate decision to shift his Capital back to Delhi, which resulted in untold sufferings for the people was also not his pure caprice. In fact, it was for the last ten years or so that the Muslim rule seemed to have stabilized itself in the Deccan, but it was most humiliating and so most hateful and unbearable to the Hindus. So, all the Hindu kings, all the Hindu religious preachers and lawgivers and Hindu people at large, were preparing feverishly though secretly to overthrow that alien rule, and the Muslim army had also grown panicky about such an armed rising. The Sultan realized the grave danger of his being involved in the meshes of this Hindu revolt and the possibility of his being destroyed completely. That is why he hurriedly shifted his Capital back to Delhi, far to the north—not simply because his caprice dictated it! As a matter of fact, it was the panic about this growing armed strength of the Hindus that caused all these crazy and contradictory moves of his! 863. One more important event of this time has equally baffled the historians, but it is far too strange to be set aside. It is this Sangam, whose young sons, Harihar and Bukka, were taken captives by the Muslims, was in fact, closely related to the Kings of Anagondi and Warangal. Naturally, these two sons were also fairly well connected with these royal families. It was for this particular reason that Mohammad Tughlak took them to Delhi and converted them to Islam. On many Hindu kings and princes had fallen this calamity of being forcibly converted to Islam, but even if they escaped afterwards from such a calamity, they had, unfortunately, no hope of being absorbed in the Hindu Society. The stumbling block was that of the ban on reconversion to Hinduism (Paras 379 to 403). How then and from what source, did this inspiration arise, which actuated the two young warriors, Harihar and Bukka, to seek reconversion to Hinduism, which again emboldened Shankaracharya Vidyaranyaswami to preside over and effect this reconversion, totally disregarding the staunch public opposition and all the rules and regulations laid down in the interpolated chapter on Kalivarjya Prakarna, and which finally made many other Hindu men of action to follow up this new movement? 864. The answer to this riddling question is to be found in the unprecedented politico-religious revolution brought about some ten or twelve years ago by the Hindu Samrat Dharmarakshak (Nasir-ud-din) at Delhi. For, Sultan Nasir-ud-din himself was originally a Hindu, who was