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The Rejuvenescent Hindu Nation
322. Even the foreign historians like Vincent Smith are astounded at the
enduring ability of the Hindu nation to rejuvenate itself after crushing
defeats. For a detailed account of this period and Smith’s glowing tribute to
the successful struggle for independence of the Hindus, the curious readers
are advised to refer to the concluding portion of Chapter IV of this book.
Only one sentence will suffice here.
322A. “After the defeat of Mihirgula (by the Hindus) and the extinction of
the Hun power, India enjoyed immunity from foreign attack for nearly five
centuries.”
323. Smith has thus completely refuted the extravagant and vulgar remark
of Dr. Ambedkar on Hindu history.
The Beginning of the awful Muslim War with India
324. It is generally believed that Mohammad Bin Kasim was the first of
the Arabian or Muslim invaders to march upon Sindh. But, in fact, it was at
least fifty years before him, that other Arabian Muslims had started picking
up quarrels with the Brahmin Kings of Sindh. They had even tried an armed
aggression. Yet we do not intend to dilate upon the systematic and
chronological account of these various skirmishes by armed bands or
military detachments. It is enough for our purpose to bear in mind that all
these attempts were foiled successfully by the Hindus. At length, Usman, the
governor of the Grand Khalipha’s distant province of Oman, openly attacked
the Hindu state of Sindh. The then Brahmin King of Sindh, Chacha,
vanquished not only these Arabs, but killed their very Commander-in-Chief,
Abdul Aziz, in a battle. After these sporadic attempts till about A.D. 640, the
Arabs did not undertake any important expedition with perhaps the only
exception of the small distant province of Makram, which they reduced to
ashes converting the Hindus there at the point of the sword to the Muslim
faith. These Hindu Baluchistanian converts of those days became later on
bigoted Muslims.
The first big Muslim Expedition against Sindh
325. Thereafter, it was in A.D. 711, that Mohammed-bin-Kasim launched
the first large-scale offenive against Sindh with a huge army, fifty-thousand
strong. The majority of the population of Sindh, then, was Vedic Hindus,
with King Dahir at the head of the state, while, only a small minority was
the follower of Lord Buddha. Formerly, when Sindh was under the Huns,
their last King Mihirgula had persecuted the Buddhists very cruelly,