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

an eyewitness account of whatever he saw here. According to him, the
Hindu borders had stretched far beyond the Indus to include what are now
called Kabul, Ghazni and Gandhar. Almost all the Chinese, who came to
India during those years, had to cross these Hindu states and the Indus,
before they stepped into India.
The Chinese of that era called the Hindus ‘Shintsu’
654. That is why, they in China are referred to India by its most ancient
name of Sindhu, and the Hindu people as ‘Shintsu’. It is quite plain that
this ‘Shintsu’ was a Chinese corruption of Sindhu. This is yet another
proof on the Chinese side that the word Hindu is derived originally from
the word Sindhu.
The first Arab invasion of Sindh and their defeat
655. Most of the modern histories refer to the Arab invasion on King
Dahir as the first invasion, wherein the Hindu King was completely
defeated. But this is a blatant falsehood. The first Arab invasion of Sindh
took place in A.D. 640, in which the invaders were completely vanquished
and their commander-in-chief was killed by the Hindus (cf: paragraph
324).
The second major invasion of Dindh by the Arabs
656. But in A.D. 711, however, Mohammed Kasim marched on Sindh at
the head of a fifty-thousand-strong army and while facing it bravely,
Maharaj Dahir of Sindh was destroyed (cf. paragraphs 327 to 331).
657. But immediately within fifty years of this fall of King Dahir, the
Rajputs and specially their leader, Bappa Raval of Chitod, wrested it away
from the Arabs and he and other Hindu kings pushed their boundaries right
from the Pariyatra Mountain, i.e. Hindukush mountains, Kashmir, Gandhar
(which is now called Afghanistan) straight up to Sindhusagar (which we
now shamelessly call Arabian sea). This Hindu sovereignty over the vast
region lasted for three hundred years.
Three hundred years amount to about seven Generations
658. Even when the Hindus held their sway over such a vast region for
more than three hundred years and even when Sindh had been reconquered
by the Rajputs within twenty-five years of its loss to Kasim. most of the
English, as also the Hindu historians, never so much as mention it. On the
contrary, great historians, litterateurs, well-known professors, all the world
over as also the school-going children, have all along been repeating
blindly that right from the time Kasim conquered Sindh, the Muslims