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

all of a sudden, began to make munificent grants to Hindu temples. He even
had new idols ceremoniously installed in the big temples, formerly smashed
to pieces by his own Muslim hirelings. He requested the Hindu Brahmins lo
pray to their gods in various Hindu temples that he might get success in this
war with the Marathas. In order to please the very Brahmins he hated most
bitterly and tortured mercilessly, he now paid them large sums of money.
He had ceremonial prayers made. He himself paid great homage to Shree
Shankaracharya (of Shringeri), to avert the imminent calamity and asked for
his blessings, which the great man readily gave. Tipu not only attended the
Chariot-festival of certain Hindu gods at Kanchi, but he himself walked in
the festive procession. With his own hands, he ignited the fireworks to
heighten the festive spirit of the occasion.
Demons Worship Gods
571. It is said that even devils start worshipping those gods, who have the
weapons powerful enough to destroy the enemy.
But neither God nor Devil came to save the wicked Tipu from that
calamity and at last, after two or three expeditions, the Marathas and the
English forces subjugated the whole of his kingdom. Tipu himself was
killed in 1799 and his dominions were divided. The small portion formerly
belonging to the Hindu King of Travancore was returned to him, and the
original royal family of the Vodyars was reinstalled at Mysore. Some of the
remaining territory was taken over by the English, while the large tract from
Karnataka to the Tungabhadra river was annexed by the Marathas to their
empire. All the Hindu states, which he had vowed to wipe out at the time of
his accession to the throne, began once again to rule peacefully in their own
places. If any one was totally ruined, it was Tipu himself with all his
Muslim territory.
Hindus’ Success
572. Thus, the violent religious aggression under Tipu’s leadership, which
the Muslims in South India had launched and perpetrated with a crescendo
against the Hindus during the two decades or so immediately preceding the
year A.D. 1790, was heroically and successfully put down by the Hindus
politically, as well as, on the battlefield.
Muslims Gain
573. Maratha warriors, claiming to defend Hindu religion, smashed the
Muslim military and political might, as has been already described. But
they did not simultaneously deal any counter-blow to their religious front,