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

shall try to give here the account of the Hindu Hero, Hemoo, as far as we can do so with the same unassailable logic. 937. It is to be noted that even while he aspired to form a Hindu Empire, he received help from many Afghan sirdars, who had fallen foul of the Moghal Muslims and especially of the Babar faction. 938. It is obvious that the life and career of the earlier Hindu Emperor, Shree Dharmarakshak (Nasir-ud-din), must have served as an ideal to be followed before Hemoo as regards the original inspiration to found a Hindu empire and the formation of a detailed scheme of his war of independence was concerned. An undying fire of freedom which sought to overthrow the Muslim rule and found a Hindu Empire in its stead had once inspired Shree Dharmarakshak (Nasir-ud-din) to bring about a glorious yet unsuccessful military coup, spurred Rana Sang and other Rajput warriors to cross swords, although not successfully, with Babar at Kanvah and at hundreds of places earlier and later, had stimulated millions of Hindu men and women to undergo all extremities of fortunes, to fight horrible battles or to immolate their lives to save their religion. The same blazing fire of freedom glowed clear and bright in the Hindu heart of Hemoo, the ambitious Hindu leader. 938A. As has been said above, he secretly prepared for a decisive battle, organized the Muslim dissentients against the Moghals and the Hindu army marched against Delhi. All the Hindu-Muslim officers at Delhi had served under him when he was the Chief Minister (Vazir). There, other politicians and the Hindus in general, offered him no opposition worth the name, surrendering to his once dreaded influence as a Vazir. His conquest of Delhi, the chief capital of Moghal empire, caused a great commotion everywhere. 939. Hemoo was born a staunch Hindu. During the Sultan’s regime, he rose to political eminence by sheer dint of his merit without the slightest slur on his Hindu individuality. In the end, assuming responsibility as the weak Sultan’s Vazir, he began to control the whole imperial administration and consolidate power into his own hands. And now he had openly hoisted the standard of Hinduism, boosted up a Hindu imperial power trampling down the whole of the Muslim Sultanate! Quite naturally, the whole of the Muslim world was rocked to the bottom with the cry that Islam was doomed and that kafirs flourished!