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

Beginning of Muslim Incursion
319. We have already pointed out—and shall do so hereafter - how the
histories written not only by foreign historians or those who are avowedly
inimical to us, but even by our own people, ignore the glorious episodes of
exceptional valour and monumental successes of the Hindus and in their
stead, catalogue only the calamities that befell them and present them as the
only true history of the Hindus, because they were never fearlessly written
from the pure and simple Hindu standpoint. We have already referred to
many such instances, in the first four chapters in support of our convention
and will do even in the following pages. The period under consideration
here is an instance in point.
320. Generally speaking in all histories, especially in the history textbooks
used in schools, the writers invariably jump from an account of Hunnish
onslaught to the first successful Muslim campaign on Sindh, without
writing even a line or two about the intervening long period of these
hundred years or so. Next follow in quick succession, the detailed narration
of Muslim invasions one after another, so that a common reader, especially
a pupil, catches an impression, which is very often carried even in his later
life, that the history of the Hindus is nothing but a doleful tale of foreign
subjugation and national defeats. Our enemies have publicized these false
impressions as established facts all over the world for the last two or three
centuries. For instance, a man like the late Dr. Ambedkar, burning with
hatred against Hinduism, writes:
“..The Hindus’ has been a life of a continuous defeat. It is a mode of
survival of which every Hindu will feel ashamed.”
321. In fact, historical evidence shows that after the total rout of the Huns,
that is to say, since about A.D. 550, Hindu kings and emperors successfully
crossed the Indus at various places and reconquered not only what are now
known as Sindh, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Herat, Hindukush, Gilgit,
Kashmir and many other regions from the Greeks, the Huns, the Sakas and
other foreign people, but hoisted the victorious national flag of the Vedic
Hindus far beyond the north-western boundaries of Chandragupta Maurya’s
empire upto Uttar Kurus! Why, even in Khotan in Central Asia beyond
Kashmir, there ruled Hindu kings and in the opinion of many historians,
even Ghazani was ruled by King Sheeladitya.