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

generally force them to accept Mohamedanism. Only the other day, I visited one of these victims and as a sample of what happens in scores of cases at Sambhar, I reproduce our conversation. The name of the victim is Taka. He was a Brahmin. He burst into tears as soon as the subject of this apostasy was touched and said: I was a Kashmiri Brahmin. I was one day suddenly called by a certain survey officer who was a Moslem, notorious for partiality and fanaticism in Hindu circles. He offered me a pan but as I refused to eat it, his servants suddenly fell upon me and belaboured me so mercilessly that I fell senseless on the ground. When I recovered, I found myself a helpless prisoner in the Moslem hands who took me to a mosque, cut off my choti (shikha), paid off my debts to the Hindu shopkeepers, changed my name to Nizamuddin and kept me under a close Moslem surveillance. My wife and uncle came to see me but returned deadly shocked and weeping at my helpless state.’ This Brahmin wished to come back to the Hindu fold. He disclosed several cases of Hindu victims in Sambhar alone, whose names were noted down by me. The Christians also are making great progress in this State. If things go on like that, Sambhar would cease to contain a Hindu home.” The Hindu reports “The Mohamedans have organised a secret society in the district of Nababshah whose activities are assuming dangerous proportions. In this one district, and in one month, four or five Hindu lads have been kidnapped. “A Hindu woman has lodged a complaint that some Moslems of Karachi have decamped with her young son and that she could not ascertain his whereabouts. “In the town of Naushahara, the Hindu papers report the presence of a disciple of Hasan Nizami school who, guised as a Sufi, has been busy seducing young Hindu boys away, making them abjure the Hindu faith. One of his own pet disciples gave out his secret designs.” The Sindh Kesari reports that Moslems have kidnapped a young Hindu lad at Karachi aged 16. The Daily Hindu of Hyderabad observes: “The campaign of kidnapping, seducing and abducting Hindu boys and girls is being persistently carried on throughout Sindh. The Khilafatists are at the forefront. On the 17th of April, some Mohamedans had secured a Hindu lad —Har Nathoo, eight years old. They had kidnapped the boy at some other place. Evidently a Hindu leader came to know of this wretched affair and succeeded in recovering the boy, who was duly re-initiated into the Hindu