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

the yoke of Muslim domination and to establish all over India, a sovereign Hindu power. The inner urge of the new resurgent Maharashtra was to dethrone the Muslim imperial power at Delhi, and to hoist in its place the Hindu imperial standard. The anguish that rankled in the hearts of the Hindus and that found expression in Shree Ramdas’s famous couplet— 1005-6.या सकल भूमंडला ठायी। हिन्दू ऐसा उरला नाही। (‘Nowhere on the face of this whole earth is there left any Hindu’) was mainly responsible for all the future glory of the Marathas! The heartache of the Hindus as expressed by Shree Ramdas. 1007-8. प्रस्तुत यवनां चे बंड। हिन्दू उरला नाहीं चंड। बहुत दिसां चे मुंड। शास्ता न मिले तयासि। (At present, the revolt of the Muslims has come to stay, and no daring Hindu has been left; no one is able to curb and subdue this long standing evil) set aglow the whole of Maharashtra. The Maharashtrian movements in that century spread far and wide throughout India, the invasions and campaigns, the battles and pursuits and retreats, consistent or inconsistent historical events, which so far baffled the greatest of historians, can well be explained by the magic words ‘Hindu Nation’ and ‘Hindu Imperial Power’. Hence, it is, that I named that book as, ‘Hindu Padpadshahi’, the name which stamped its own seal on the history of the millennial Hindu-Muslim war, by gaining ultimate victory over it. 1009. Even in this book of mine, the history of the Marathas has not been given in all its details, because historians have already done that work most painstakingly and on a larger scale. Jadunath Sarkar, who wrote in English, and Riyasatkar Sardesai, who wrote in Marathi, had already written books collocating all the available research-work most laboriously done by several research scholars and assimilating and interpreting it in the best way they could. It is, therefore, to avoid needless repetition that I did not attempt to write a detailed history of the Marathas. Moreover, sitting as I was in the small room, made available to me for my residence in a small village of Shirgaon near Ratnagiri, by my friend Shree Vishnupant Damale, even in those days of local detention imposed on me