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

those foreigners as the defenders of the Muslim faith in order that they might invade India to save the Muslim imperial power at Delhi. They even offered to make those foreign Muslim leaders, the Emperors of Delhi. It was on the invitations of these Indian Muslims and depending on their strength and assistance, that the above-mentioned violent aggressors could think of attacking India. The Invasion of Nadirshah 1034. Of the Muslim Sardars, Emirs and Khans who secretly invited Nadirshah to invade India in order to crush the Marathas, Nizam-ul-Mulk was the most prominent. As Bajirao I had vanquished him completely, he fondly hoped that the Marathas would be squarely punished and destroyed by Nadirshah. He did not care what would happen subsequently. Nadirshah crossed Attock and reached Lahore in 1732. The Emperor of Delhi made a grand show of opposing him with his army. But in the very first battle, he was routed entirely. Nadirshah called him and put him in his prison. Nizam too was similarly reprimanded for suffering the Marathas to be so very powerful as to engulf the imperial power of Dehli, and because he did not pay the several crores of rupees that he had promised, Nizam, too was put behind the bars. Then, Nadirshah marched straight to Delhi. On the 10th March, 1739, Nadirshah liquidated the Moghal imperial power and proclaimed himself the Emperor of India. With precipitate haste, he not only followed the age-old Muslim imperial tradition but far outdistanced it with all sorts of monstrocities and orgies of blood and fire. Plunder, arson and man-slaughter ran riot in the streets of Delhi. The Muslims, however, hoped that Nadirshah would at least annihilate the Marathas. But deliberately or knavishly, Nadirshah did not offend the Marathas. Why, in his rage of Delhi, he never spared the Muslims. Nadirshah himself seated the Nizam on the back of a donkey and forced him to undergo the humiliation of a parade throughout this city. 1035. Soon the news came headlong that the Marathas had inflicted a great defeat upon the Portuguese and the well known sea-port of Bassein (Vasai) had been conquered from the latter and that the Portuguese Governor of the place and his army had laid down their arms and sued for peace with the Marathas, and that feeling himself free, therefore, to do as he liked, Bajirao I had started with huge preparations and was heading towards Delhi. 1036-37. अरे बघतां कायः चला जोरानें चाल करून!