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6TH GLORIOUS EPOCH 23. The Sixth Glorious Epoch of Hindu Victories over the Aggressors India freed from the British Domination 1094. This Chapter on the Sixth Glorious Epoch of Hindu Victories Over Aggressors is the last one. 1094A. The scope of this book has been defined in Paragraph 7 of the first chapter of this book. That delimitation itself suggests that in this chapter on the Sixth Glorious Epoch of Hindu victories, it is not at all necessary to give a detailed account of how, while the British had firmly established their mighty empire on the whole of India, the Hindu nation could make itself independent and how it has taken a place of pride as an indigenous and sovereign republic amongst the nations of the world. The only object of this chapter is just to examine and assess only salient points in this exciting war of liberation of the Hindu nation from the British, which have been purposely overlooked by almost all the foreign as well as the independent historians, notwithstanding the fact that they are highly important from the point of view of Hindutwa. 1095. But that too, I have done for the most part in my other books, as far as it was necessary to do so: 1096. (1) It is already mentioned at the end of the last chapter that the Hindus had completely uprooted the foreign Muslim empire from India and Hindu States had once again, been established everywhere and the Muslims did not, in fact, wield any imperial authority over the land of Hindusthan. But while the Hindu nation was thus inextricably involved in a gigantic millennial war to root out the Muslim imperial power from India and while all its energies and time were utilized in that direction, European nations like the Portuguese, the French, the Dutch and especially, the English had already commenced their efforts at establishing their rule over India secretly or even openly. The Marathas, who had assumed the leadership of the Hindu nation at that time, had simultaneously to face all these European nations, just when they were carrying on a life and death struggle with the Muslims! Although they had been mostly successful in the end in arresting