भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
DevanagariHindipublished494 पृष्ठ
पृष्ठ 150, कुल 494 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 150
- Under the illusion of preserving the purity of their own caste and
religion, the Hindu Society of the Islamic era began to enforce as their
religious duty, the bans on exchange of food, on inter-caste marriage and
other bans, even when they were harmful to the society. In a similar way
and for the same reason of protecting the purity of their caste and religion,
the ban on re-purification of the converted Hindus and that on sea-faring,
began to be enforced most scrupulously and rigidly as religious injunctions.
Neither any single Hindu who was converted under coercion, nor even his
progeny could ever come back to Hinduism: their sin (?) had no
redemption, no salvation. For generations together, the Hindus believed this
to be their inviolable religious injunction; with very rare exceptions, every
Hindu, from sweeper to Brahmin, from Chhatrapati (the sovereign) to
Patrapati (the holder of a parchment), from Shankaracharya (the Religious
Head) to Shankhacharya (the prince of blockheads), whether learned or
illiterate, held this opinion about the ban on repurification of the converts
unanimously and unswervingly from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. - On account of these very bans, thousands of our Hindu ladies kindled
the fires of johar, century-after-century, in order to avoid violation at the
hands of the Muslims. To save themselves from this humiliation of
violation by enemies, millions others leapt into rivers, lakes and wells, all
over the country and destroyed themselves along with their small children
at their breasts. Most bravely, did many others die defiantly refusing to be
converted to Islam, like Chahatrapati Samabhaji, Guru Teg Bahadur and
many of our Sikh gurus like the martyr Bairagi Baba Banda, who kept on
defying the Muslims till the last, even when his body was being cut off limb
by limb. How can we ever forget this unprecedented martyrdom unless we
are ungrateful to them? Few other communities in the history of the world
could have sacrificed their lives on such a vast scale or with such severity as
did the Hindus! This martyrdom of the Hindus was not altogether futile in
respect of saving their religion from the Muslim onslaught. The heroic tales
of their martyrdom have been inspiring generations of the nation to offer
their life for protecting the religion, and this is not altogether insignificant. - Although highly detrimental to the interests of the nation as a whole,
and as such deserving the severest of criticism, these various bans like those
on exchange of food and sea-voyage and the custom of social ostracism,
were all imposed by the Hindus of that period—let it not be forgotten—with
the sole noble object of protecting the purity of their caste and creed.