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

The Simultaneous Attack of all the non-Hindu Nations of the World on the Deccan (South India) 931. When the European powers, mentioned above, invaded India, they all did so by the sea. Naturally, their first tremendous onslaughts had to be borne and resisted by the Deccan and especially by the Marathas. Earlier, North India had to bear for six or seven centuries, the whole brunt of the fierce and marauding attacks of the fanatical Muslims like the Moghals, the Turks, the Afghans, the Arabs and others, and had to offer them the sternest possible resistance. Eventually, all these Asiatic Muslim nationals and the barbaric tribes fell violently upon the South with a view to conquering it for ever. Even while all these enemies were repeatedly invading from the North and the Deccan was engaged with them in bloody and deadly wars, in which thousands of Hindus were offering their precious lives for the sake of defending their religion, as they did in the North, the South Indian people were invaded, by the sea, by the new European Christian nationals, as numerous as the locusts themselves. The enemies crowded in upon the Deccan not only from the north-west or the north-east but also from the west. Not only by land but by sea also, did all the combative, marauding, aggressive and fanatic Muslims and Christian nations had simultaneously attacked the Deccan at the time, to overrun the Hindu states there and to eradicate Hindu religion from the land. 932. North India had to face only the Muslim nations, which itself was not an easy job. The deadly war that the Hindus had been fighting with the Muslims for centuries was as fierce and beset with all sorts of dangers as to exhaust even the Gods who had fought against the demons! But the Deccan had the misfortune of facing not only all those Muslims but also the European Christian nations like the Portuguese and others, who were even greater enemies of Hinduism than the Muslims, and who tried every form of cruelty to proselytize the Hindus. And the South Indian Hindus—and especially the Marathas, who had assumed their leadership in this war— showed the rarest tenacity and irresistible daring to repel single-handed, these waves of aggression rising all round them. While thousands of Hindus had been sacrificing their lives along with those of their wives and children on the religious front against the Muslims and the Portuguese Christians, as many others were fighting battles after battles and wars after wars on the political and military fronts. This exceptional struggle of the Hindus against foreign aggressors is worth a glorious mention in the history of the world.