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

with an administration of the vows of Vaishnavism.
516. (15) It is well known that the most daring and valiant Shree
Shivachhatrapati, who avenged all the wrongs done to the Hindus by
establishing a Hindu independent state, himself reconverted Bajaji,
Nimbalkar and Netaji Palkar, who had been forced to court Islam.
A Counter-Aggression?
517. (16) Towards the end of his career, Aurangzeb opened, with his huge
fourfold army, the most determined offensive against the Hindus. Before he
fell upon the Marathas, he wanted to crush the Rajputs. But no sooner did
he go away to the South, than the Rajputs retaliated with the same
vehemence and vigour and made up for the humiliation and numerical
losses of the Hindus. The glaring instance of Jodhpur may be cited here.
Under the leadership of powerful Maharana Jaswantsingh and the brave
Durgadas Rathod, not only the masjids, erected by Aurangzeb on the ruins
of Hindu temples, but all other masjids also were razed to the ground and
on their site, Hindu temples were built. The Jodhpurian Rajputs
reconverted not only the Muslimized Hindus, but as many of the Muslims
also as they could on an extensive scale. If the Muslim armies went on
throwing beef into the Hindu temples and wells, the Rathod armies cast
pork in masjid-after-masjid and paid them in the same coin. Hundreds of
Muslim women were converted to Hinduism and married to the Rajputs or
were simply kept as concubines, like the Hindu women by the Muslims
before them. The whole of the Muslim society in Rajputana was horror-
stricken to see this ferocious outburst of Hindu rage. Not merely for the sin
of eating and drinking with the Muslims but for having cohabited with and
married Muslim women, and even keeping them in their houses, Hindus
were no longer socially ostracized. For, at least thirty to forty years, this
Hindu retaliatory aggression on the Muslims had spread and glowed, and
resounded through town-after-town and village-after-village in the Hindu
states in Rajasthan. It is, of course, needless to say that with the decline of
the power of the brave Durgadas Rathod, this ferocious appearance of the
Hindu society also vanished.
Reason?
518. The reason is only this, that the abiding state of the Hindu mind at
that time, did not favour religious counter-aggression but social boycott.
The innate capacity of the Hindus for Rejuvenation