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

Hindu nation and Hindu welfare as any other. The Hindu nation must always bow down its head in all reverence to this hero, who unfortunately is not so remembered amongst the very few so-called martyrs and warriors in the Hindu world. Well be it so! But even if the millions of these self-deceived and ungrateful Hindus have forgotten him, the Hindu nation as a whole must always remember that the undying Hindu aspiration to free itself, which was kept continually ablaze through a succession of generations and over centuries together and which ultimately rent to pieces the Muslim imperial power, planting on its dead remains the glorious banner of an India-wide Hindu empire, was fed on the now forgotten martyrdom, and the sacrificial offerings of their lives on the altar of war, of the numerous brave heroes like Hemoo, who were दिल्लींद्र पदलिप्सव (ambitious of being the lords of Delhi). 943. Here itself, may we offer our reverential tributes to the glorious memory of Vikramaditya Hemoo, the great, and proceed futher! The Valiant Queen Durgawati 944. Bahiramkhan, thereafter, took Akbar straight to Delhi, later they two together reduced all the rebels up to Gwalior (Gwalher). But they soon fell out and Akbar assumed supreme authority, whereupon Bahiramkhan rebelled, but was defeated. Even then, Akbar did not kill him outright, but sent him away to Makka. Bahiramkhan, however, fell a prey to a revengeful enemy of his of the earlier days. 945. In A.D. 1564, the independent Rajput King in Gondwana, named Veer Narayan, was attacked by Akbar. King Veer Narayan was a minor. Yet his mother, the dowager Qeeen Durgawati, decided not to surrender but to fight the well-equipped imperial army of Akbar, and offered such a tough resistance that for a while, the invaders were astounded. She bravely defended the cause of Hinduism till she was overwhelmed by the vastly superior numbers of the Muslim emperor. But did she sue for peace and lay down arms? Did she ask for the imperial clemency as for a powerless woman? Or, did she send a ‘Rakhi’ to Akbar and abjectly request him to treat her as a sister and show mercy to her as did some other Rajput ladies, off and on? No, not at all! Knowing full well from hundreds of such cases how these Muslim wolves ill-treated and molested the royal Hindu ladies, who fell captives in their hands, Rani Durgawati staunchly refused to do anything of the kind. She, on the contrary, offered her body, along with many other ladies of the court, to the ‘sacred’ fire of the battle. She left strict orders to her