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Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar

स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा

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पृष्ठ 301, कुल 494 में से

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पृष्ठ 301
  1. The patron-saint directing these blood-curdling Portuguese religious formalities was the Jesuit missionary, Saint Francis Xavier, whom the persecuted Hindus called Satan incarnate! He came to India in 1540. 925.A. This so-called ‘Saint’ Xavier himself proudly states in one of his letters his triumphant success in the devilish persecution of the Hindus (see Paragraphs 539 to 546). He himself and hundreds of other missionaries, who came after him, converted innumerable Hindus to Christianity with all sorts of brutalities and vandalism. Countless Hindu men and women committed suicide to escape this violent persecution. The Portuguese gradually conquered Div, Daman, Sashti, Vasai (Bassein), Choul, Mumbai (Bombay) on the Western coast of India and Saint Tome near Madras, and Hugh in Bengal, of which Mumbai (Bombay) was presented to the English King as a dowry in 1668 (1661-2?) by the Portuguese King Charles II. It was subsequently made over the King Charles II of England to East India Company for a nominal rent of 4-10 a year. The rest of the region round about Bombay in the Portuguese possession was released by the Marathas. Goa was the only major possession left in the Portuguese hands.
  2. The Dutch: Quick on the heels of the Portuguese, the Dutch of Holland entered India. The Dutch East india Company was formed in A.D. 1602 for the purpose, but they could not find a firm footing in India. Jawa and Sumatra, however, proved congenial to them. Hence, they directed all their attention to that region and made it their stronghold. When the English began to dabble there, the Dutch cut them all but one at Amboina, and ruled practically the whole of the Indonesian archipelago unhampered.
  3. The English: Although the English East India Company was formed in A.D. 1600, it could not open its first factory in India till A.D. 1608. Jahangir gave them permission to open one at Surat in A.D. 1613. After a while in 1689, the monopoly of the British East India Company was cancelled because of many malpractices and rivalries in the Company’s servants and another company was formulated to carry on Indian Trade. But when it was seen that such competition was detrimental to the interests of the British Nation as a whole, the two companies were amalgamated.
  4. As the British East India Company was later on to enlarge the scope of her activities to such an enormous extent as to encompass a foreign stupendous Indian empire, it is out of place and even impossible to discuss its extensive history in these introductory remarks. Moreover, as the English were to meet the Marathas on the battlefields amidst the clash of arms, the