भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
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- Even a solitary instance in the times of Rajaram, regarding Aurangzeb, may be suffcient to show clearly what great havoc was caused amongst the vast and unwieldy Muslim armies, harassed, hacked and hewed by these Maratha guerrillas! The huge armies of Aurangzeb pursued the Maratha force right up to Jinji (or Zinji) in the South, reducing their territories as they went. But? - the moment they turned their back, they saw that smaller bands of the Maratha irregulars had already crossed the Narmada and after having entered Gujarath, they had frightened the Subhedar of that province out of his wits. Farther off, the Marathas were often reported to have attacked the central provinces to the utter dismay of the already confused Moghal Emperor. In the end, giving up Maharashtra as precipitately as they would have dropped a glowing cinder from their hands, those huge Moghal hosts hacked, harassed and harried by the indomitable Maratha warriors retreate, crestfallen, back to Delhi.
- It is not correct to assume that the Marathas had resorted to this aggressive war policy only so long as their martial power and their administrative machinery had not had a sound footing or had not grown sufficiently strong. On the other hand, they renewed their aggressive incursions into the remaining Muslim territories under the command of the invincible veteran war leaders, like Bajirao I, with greater rigour and zest, when every one of the several Sardars and Chieftains had tens and scores and thousands of soldiers under them, fighting, conquering and establishing Maratha rule right from Jinji to Gujarat and even Malwa and Central India! If at all, they were to establish Hindu-Padpadshahi throughout the whole of India, the defensive war policy of preserving whatever they had, would have been of little use. They had necessarily to adopt the bolder policy of making new acquisitions. That way, those brave and indefatigable Maratha warriors had an insatiable desire to assail their religious enemies whenever and wherever they could! The aggressive war policy of the Marathas stopped the inroads of the Foreign Enemies beyond the Himalayas
- The reports that the bold thrusts of Bajirao I right up to the gates of Delhi, had convulsed the Moghal imperial power to its very foundations and rendered it disjointed, and that the mighty Maratha armies were about to invade the territories even beyond Delhi up to Punjab, did not fail to give a rude shock to the Muslim powers of Kabul, Ghazni, Iran, Turan, Balkh, Bokhara, Arabia and other countries beyond the Himalayas!