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

enough Ragho-Bharari, in order to express its wonder and pride about this unhampered and undeterred spring of his, about this eagle-flight of his, towards the Himalayas! This informal title of the victorious general, Raghunathrao, had become immortal! Soon arrived the news of the Crowning Glory of the Marathas 1083. Raghunathrao, the commander-in-chief of the Maratha force, had posted some of the Maratha Sardars to punish severely all the Muslim Emirs, Umraos, gangsters and marauders, fakirs and parasites of every sort, who were creating anarchical conditions in Punjab and especially towards the Indus Valley, plundering the peaceful populace there, and establish the Maratha hold in that territory firmly and to collect the revenue and the ‘chauth’ and ‘Sardeshmukhi’ taxes from the territory. Of those Sardars, Tukoji Holkar, Sabaji Shinde, Gopalrao Barve with their soliders attacked the fort of Attock, which was the pride of the Indus valley, and snatched it away from the Muslim hands in the month of July, 1758. The Muslim green flag was uprooted and in its place was hoisted in the tumultuous war cries of ‘Har Har Mahadev!’ of the Marathas, the saffron coloured ‘Jaripatka’ of Hindus—on the fort of Attock. The Marathas and so the Hindu-horses once again drank the holy water of the Indus! 1084. On that glorious day, at last, was the ban (Atak—अटक) of a thousand years enforced by the religious law of the Hindus themselves, broken by the Hindu arms! Why, the Maratha warriors pursued the Muslims even beyond Attock upto Kandahar! 1085. It is already explained in Paragraphs 522 to 535 how this town was named ‘Attock’ and why. 1086. When the news arrived in Maharashtra of the conquest of Attock and of the hoisting by the Marathas of the Hindu Jaripatka on that fort, the universal joy felt there knew no bounds. The Marathas had taken revenge of the wrong done to the Hindus over a thousand years by routing and driving the Muslims right up to Kabul and Kandahar and wrenching the de facto sovereignty of the whole of India from the Muslim hands. And this itself is the fifth Glorious Epoch of Hindu Victories over the Aggressors 1087. The page in the history of the Hindu Nation, which records this unique event of the conquest of Attock and the final victory of the Hindu in the epic millennial Hindu-Muslim war and the establishment of the de facto sovereignty of the Hindus over the so-called Muslim empire, is really the