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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- It has already been shown in this book how, before the rise of the Marathas, these very Arab, Iranian, Durani, Turk, Moghal and other Muslim tribes had often swooped down the Himalayas into the Indian plains with all the ferocity and barbarity at their command; how some of these Muslim aggressors overran the Hindu states, dashed towards the south, worsting the Hindu religion, heaping up inhuman religious persecutions and untold devilish atrocities on its adherents; and again, how some other of them established their own independent stable Sultanates at Delhi and like Alauddin, made straight for the southernmost end of India.
- The then Hindu Kings themselves could not invade Iran, Turan or Arabia beyond the Himalayas even before those diabolic Muslim aggressors could trespass the Indian territory. They could annihilate those Muslim invaders in their very homes! Nadirshah and Abdali
- But as soon as the Marathas assumed the Hindu leadership all over India in this millennial Hindu-Muslim epic war, and so soon again as the ramparts of Delhi began to crumble with the forcible thrusts of the Maratha arms, this age-old notorious habit of the Muslim aggressive tribes and states in Asia of attacking every now and then, like Mahmud of Ghazni, with vociferous vows of complete destruction of the Hindu and their religion was for ever broken! Since the time the Maratha arms brought Delhi under their control, and the imperial administration at Delhi began to obey the dictates of the valiant Peshwa, like Bajirao I, only two—Nadirshah of Iran and Ahmedshah Abdali of Ghazni—dared cross the Indian borders from beyond the Himalayas, putting on the pompous airs of the former Muslim invaders swearing terrible wrongs unto the people herein and longing in vain to become the Emperors of India. But really speaking, none of them had come upon India, like the former invaders, on their own initiative and with an irresistible itch. The full knowledge that the Marathas had succeeded in establishing the Hindu rule all over India up to Delhi or that they could do so, had overawed both Nadirshah and Abdali, too! It was only at the supplications of the Muslim Sardars of Delhi and Punjab and at times, the secret invitation of the Emperor himself, that Nadirshah and Ahmedshah made bold to cross the Hindukush and march upon India. The Rohillas, the Pathans and the Moghals secretly pleaded that the Marathas had practically usurped the whole power, that the Kafirs were gradually becoming dominant throughout the whole of India and that they were approaching