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

in order to repulse and avenge their all-out attempt to disrupt Hinduism,
their mass conversions of Hindus, their most heinous attacks upon the
chastity of thousands of Hindu women. They did not severely penalize the
perpetrators of these crimes. No, they did not do anything of the kind to
attack the Muslim religion in return!
The Result
574-575. The inevitable consequence was that the two or three hundred
thousand forcibly converted Hindu men and women and children remained
groaning with agony in the clutches of the Muslim community in South
India. Although Tipu’s political power perished completely under the
heavy counter-blows of the combined Maratha-English swords and spears,
the religious domination he forced on the millions of Hindus grew ever
stronger and stronger in the absence of any counter offensive. The future
generations of these converted Hindus, in the absence of any immediate
reconversion, went on adding rapidly to the numerical strength of the
enemy of Hinduism, by at least one and a half times or twice as much.
Being brought up from birth under the Islamic influence, this future
progeny of the Hindu converts became the inveterate enemies of the
Hindus, and instead of desiring to come back to Hinduism, they cherished
like the wolf in the ‘Aesop’s fables,’ the fiendish ambition of converting
the rest of the Hindus to Islam. They considered it their most sacred duty!
576. If the Marathas had so retaliated, all those two or three hundred
thousand Hindu men and women recently converted during those four or
five years of the war with Tipu, would have, in all probability, courted
Hinduism most willingly because of the love they bore for their original
families and relatives, and because of the pangs of separation they suffered.
Their devotion to and fascination for their recently lost religion, their love
and affection for their separated Hindu fathers and mothers, sons and
daughters, relatives and friends, must have at that time been so acute and
fresh as to cause them many a heartache, and to make them shed many an
agonized tear at their slightest mention and recollection.
577. How very simple it would have been, at that time, to reconvert all
those luckless two or three hundred thousand Hindu brethren and absorb
them all in the Hindu society!
578. After Tipu’s defeat, the victorious Maratha armies of Sardar
Patwardhan, Holkar, Raste and other great chieftains were returning
triumphantly to Maharashtra from their respective fronts and by different