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

time, India was being vivisected unwittingly between two parts: the Hindu
India and the Muslim India!
605. THESE BIG OR SMALL ISLAMISTANS WERE REALLY THE
TIME BOMBS LAID BY THE CONVERT MUSLIM RELIGIOUS
AUTHORITY IN THE FOUNDATION OF THE HINDU POLITICAL
SUPERSTRUCTURE!
606. Yet neither the Hindu rulers, nor the common people, nor even the
historians of the time seem to have apprehended, acutely or even faintly, the
instantaneous or the belated consequences of this tremendous loss of
numbers and territory. For, nobody else has so far tried, as we are doing
here, any bold, lucid and comprehensive historical exposition of this loss of
numbers and territory that the Hindu nation had to suffer because of the
morbid Hindu religious concepts of various bans and their perverted sense
of virtues! If at all there be any such attempt, it is bound to be an exception.
607-608. Moreover, had the Hindus at that time really understood the full
significance of the above-mentioned evil consequences of the Muslim
religion dominance, the Maratha government would have immediately and
definitely launched a counter-religious aggression upon the Islamic faith in
the south, the moment its leader, Tipu, was politically vanquished. For, the
Hindus had never before had such a completely favourable opportunity as
they had it then, to launch such a counter-offensive on the religious front.
Throughout the whole of India, there was left no Muslim power at that time,
which could even so much as think of opposing the Marathas, as we have
already pointed it out, and as our contemporary bard sings in one of his
heroic ballads with evident pride for Hinduism—
जलचर हैदर निजाम इंग्रज रणकरिता थकसे।
ज्यानि पुण्याकडे विलोकिते ते संपत्तिता मुकते॥
[The pirates (meaning the Portuguese), Hyder, the Nizam, the English all
were exhausted fighting (with the Marathas). Whoever looked (with
enmity) at Poona, lost their wealth!]
Devil can be Fought by arch-devil only
609. Suppose, as soon as this propitious time had come, the Maratha
Chieftains such as Bhonsale, Holkar, Patwardhan, Raste and others, who
had fought against Tipu, the Maratha administrators, the Peshwa and the
Chhatrapati, had promulgated, in consultation with the prominent religious