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

Hindu of the eminence of the Maharaja, who glories in the fact that his Hindu ancestors had been contented slaves throughout centuries under the political domination of the Moslems? Is it not a fact that it is these contented Hindu slaves who proved traitors to the Hindu cause in the past, fought for their Moslem masters against the emancipating forces of the Maratha Empire and enabled the Moslem rule to survive in Hyderabad? The Nizam was defeated in battles after battles at Bhopal, Udgir, Kharda and the Marathas liberated Hindu Provinces from Nagar to Nagpur and from Nagpur to Orissa from the grip of the Moslem rule. But it is to the treacherous assistance of these contentedly slavish 'Ancestors', that gave the Nizam Government the long lease of life it enjoys. Otherwise, the forces of the Maratha Empire would have freed the Hindus in Hyderabad long ago and spared them their present serfdom, Instead of hanging his head down in shame at the thought of this continuous political and racial subjection of the Hindus to Moslem domination, the Maharaja parades it as if it was an additional feather in his cap. This one fact proves as no detailed Hindu grievance can ever do, the thoroughness with which the anti-Hindu policy of the Nizam Government has succeeded in emasculating the Hindu spirit in the dominions and how not a vestige of self-respect is left even in the best of them by the age-long serfdom to which the Moslem rule had reduced them. It is this supreme task and not only the removal of local and detailed minor grievances of the Hindus—this task of emancipating the Hindu mind from this slavish mentality—that the Hindu Mahasabha had set before itself. The Mahasabha demands that the Hindus in the Nizam Dominions must be allowed all Civil Liberties in equal measure in common with other non-Hindu citizens, so that they may grow to their full height as self- respecting men, who would not tolerate anything that implies racial inferiority or humiliation to which they are subjected as Hindus. So far as the right of representing our Sanatani Section which the Maharaja wants to monopolise is concerned, it cannot be better refuted than by pointing out to the one single fact that the President of Warnashram Swaraja Sangha of Maharashtra and the leader of the Sanatanists all over India—Dharmaveer Vishwasrao Davre—is rotting even at this moment in the Nizam's jail under the very nose of the Maharaja, for championing the cause of the Hindu Mahasabha and Arya Samaj Civil Resistance Movement. The spirit of the real Sanatan Dharma is represented by