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

Datagant, Bikhanli, Khiri and several other places in the district of Etava are groaning under similar religious persecution and Hindus in dozens and scores, have been systematically forced to leave the faith of their forefathers. Mr. Devi Dutt Dwivedi declares that some of these Hindu victims to Moslem barbarism have prayed to be readmitted into the Hindu fold through shuddhi. Before the District Magistrate of Sylhut, a Hindu widow stated that she got widowed at the age of ten. She was aged about fourteen years, at the time of her complaint. Once while she was bathing at a ghat, one rascal Mubarik suddenly fell on her, thrust a piece of cloth in her mouth and decamped with her. He kept her in confinement and committed a series of outrages. He took her then to a rich Mohamedan, threatening her all the while with a pointed dagger to acquiesce in all that he did and said. In the meanwhile, she saw her brother coming down with a constable, at the sight of which, she suddenly cried aloud ‘brother! oh my brother! Here, am I, thy sister Tarangin!’ The story and its pathos need not be gone into further enough to state that in this case, at least the rascal Mubarik got sentence of four years rigorous imprisonment. We can multiply similar incidents reported from Kashmir to Kamorin ad nauseum. But we refrain from doing so and will end this sad tale with two significant remarks. One is a caution printed prominently in the Arjun—the leading Hindi Daily of Delhi. It warns all Hindus that inasmuch as the filthy activity of Moslem gundas has been renewed in Delhi, Hindus should not allow their sisters and wives and mothers and daughters to go unattended, to bath, to the ghats of the Jamanaji nor would they remain outside after dusk. For, several reports have reached us that show that Moslem gundas take most indecent liberty with Hindu ladies and harass them most dreadfully in some quarters of the city. This is the state of the capital of all India! What are we to think of out-of-the-way villages and towns on the frontier or in the Punjab in Sindh and other provinces! This also must be borne in mind that each of these cases that has come to light conceals behind it dozen that are not known. Last of all, in the presence of such grave and persistent provocation, there is not a single case of a Hindu being guilty of carrying or trying to kidnap or abduct a Moslem boy or girl under the influence of fanatical barbarism. Fortunately, it is not in their grain.