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

have been, possible for the Muslims. If at all the Hindus were to dread
anything, they should have dreaded the Muslim armed political aggression
first. But barring minor incidents and looking at this gigantic struggle in one
broad sweep, the reader can clearly see that in order to protect their states
and religion, the Hindus had fought grim and determined battles right from
the times of Mahmud of Ghazni's and Ghori's demoniacal raids. They lost
their states, they won their states! Defeat and victory, victory and defeat!
The fortunes of the fields changed in quick succession! But for more than
seven centuries, the Hindus kept on fighting the Muslims throughout the
whole of India, fought every inch of it and finally brought the mighty
Muslim enemy to his knees in abject surrender! To say that these Hindus
would have ever cared a two-pence for the fiercer rage of the Muslim
revenge, is in itself, a fine illustration of self-contradiction!
598. Of course, the Muslims had never to worry in the least about the
security of their religious domination in India! The Hindus were firm as
regards one thing: never to convert any Muslim, not to counterattack the
sphere of the Muslim religious influence; nor again to harm them in any
way in matters religious; for, all these actions were completely contrary to
the Hindu religious faith! The Muslims had only one anxiety as to how to
spread the Islamic faith incessantly throughout the length and breadth of
India, even if the Hindus had reconquered political power! We have already
discussed at different places in this book, the tremendous loss to the Hindu
nation this Muslim religious aggression had caused. Only two major points
need a brief resume here.
Loss of thirty million Hindus
599. Even in those days, the Hindu society was quite aware of this
numerical loss! But because of their morbid ban on reconversion, no
effective remedy could be found against this drain of its lifeblood. Very like
the invalid patient, meekly bearing the death-pangs of an incurable disease,
the then Hindu world endured this blood-draining, deadly disease!
Loss of Territory!
600. But graver still than this loss of numerical strength, was another: the
permanent loss of the vast territory snatched away by the Muslim religious
incursions, slowly, bit by bit, but steadily, without the knowledge of the
Hindus! THE MUSLIMS THUS SEIZED FAR MORE HINDU LAND
THROUGHOUT INDIA BY CONVERSION THAN THEY DID BY
CONQUESTS!