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Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar

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पृष्ठ 135, कुल 494 में से

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पृष्ठ 135
  1. An exile from any one caste of the Hindus never lost his Hindu
    society nor his Hindu religion; he could merge in any one of the many other
    Hindu castes or could form a new caste of similar outcastes. But this new
    caste of such outcastes formed an integral part of the Hindu society. There
    was a change of caste but never a change of religion—nor even a change of
    society. Why then speak of a change of nationality? The above-mentioned
    Vaishya, for instance, lost his Vaishya caste, but his being a Hindu remained
    unimpaired. Naturally, this sort of banishment from one caste to the other in
    the Hindu society, never caused any numerical loss to it.
  2. Only one extract from the many ‘Tavarikhs’ (histories) written by
    various Muslim writers should serve as a sample to show how miserable the
    Hindu converts were!
    415-417. Of the hundreds of Hindus taken as slaves and sent to Persia,
    Turan (Turkey) and Arabia, at the time of the invasions of Mahmud Ghazni,
    some could give the slip, individually or in groups, and would run away to
    Punjab, which because of the staunch Hindu resistance, remained the
    extreme limit of Muslim domination for over a century or so after Mahmud
    Ghazni. Thereafter, these runaway Hindu converts would escape even from
    Punjab and enter the neighbouring Hindu states of Rajputana for shelter,
    and were glad at heart that they were at last free from the Muslim clutches
    and that they would live happily in Hindu families, in their own temples
    and in their own society!
  3. But when, according to the same custom, a Hindu, banished because
    of some sort of (so-called) illicit contact with any Muslim, would cease to
    be a Hindu altogether, and as thousands of such Hindu men and women
    were, often enough being converted under coercion by the Muslim
    aggressors, and as they were all without any exception, thrown out of the
    Hindu society, it was the Hindu society that suffered huge numerical losses
    year after year!
  4. But alas! they were grossly disappointed because of the ban on
    reconversion and rehabilitation of these caste-outs! These groups of
    runaway Hindu converts would come to these Hindu states only to find that
    not only their own, but no other Hindu state was prepared to accept them in
    their fold. If at all they wished to live in the Hindu states, these men and
    women of the runaway shelter-seeking groups had to live as Muslims alone!
    Later on, when after a century or so, the Muslim armies began to make
    successful expeditions upto Delhi and central India, they were very much