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

have resigned themselves helplessly to the Muslim bondage and rotted till
death, bringing forth Muslim offsprings! What wonder if they might have
borne the bitterest grudge against these unavailing Hindu brethren!
583. On the other hand, the Mullah-Maulvis and the Muslim hooligans
and rogues, who had so far disappeared underground for fear of death, very
soon came to know that neither those victorious armies, or their chiefs, nor
even the rulers and administrators of Hindu states, were going to punish
them individually or collectively for all the wrongs they had perpetrated
against the Hindus. Being thus assured of safety, they came out boldly and
began to move about freely and enjoy, as their legal right, the abducted
Hindu women and the plundered Hindu property as their own. It also might
have happened that many Hindus had the misfortune to witness meekly
with their own eyes, their own daughters and nieces and daughters-in-law
slaving as wives or maids in Muslim houses in their own villages and
towns. But, strangely enough, neither the Hindu population there nor the
Hindu administrators nor again the officers at those places, ever thought of
freeing any of those luckless ladies! Hardly any such instance is recorded in
history. For, the Hindus had cultivated a shameless religious conceit for
over centuries together, to suffer all the heart-rending humiliation without a
prick of conscience. Nobody, as a rule, is ashamed of a thing that is not
considered blameworthy by the society. Because of the one ban on
reconversion, what was this shameless perversion of ideas and emotions to
which the Hindu society had brought itself!
A heap of Contemporary Documentary Evidence
584. Abundant information in all details is now available about this war
with Tipu. Histories written in English by Marshman and others, those in
Marathi by Rao Bahadur Sardesai and the contemporary correspondence of
the then English diplomats, administrators and political agents and
ambassadors have been published. Research scholars such as Rajwade,
Parasnis and Khare have brought to light heaps of letters by the Chiefs of
the Maratha States, their subordinate officers and ambassadors and agents,
of merchants and men of rank in the society, of various people in political,
religious and social walks of life. A clear picture paints itself of the daily
routine life of the Hindu Society of the time, its habits and customs, its
codes of religious, political and social conduct, its ethics and philosophy, if
one cares to read the dispatches of the great personalities of the times such
as Haripant Phadke to Nana Phadnavis at Poona about his association with