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

and Korea. Kublai Khan made the age-long Chinese capital of Peking his
own.
697. One after-effect of this Mongol-Turkish struggle was that they had a
mixed progeny, which was called Moghal or Mughal. These Moghals
frequently tried to rush into India and finally reached Delhi. Some of them
took to Islam, but the old Muslims did not treat them equally; they
considered them to be low-born. These Moghals founded in Delhi, a
separate colony of theirs, named ‘Moghalpura’. Some others of them went
to the Rajputs for shelter because the old Muslims scoffed at them.
Especially, some two thousand of them sought employment in the army of
the valiant Hindu king of Ratanbhor.
698. Sultan Bulban of the Slave Dynasty was, in a sense, the most
powerful and able; he called himself the true representative of Allah. But as
regards his hatred towards the Hindus, he surpassed everybody from the
emperor to the meanest of servants. He imposed various heavy taxes on the
Hindus, forbade their pilgrimages to the holy places while their forcible
conversions and massacres went on unceasingly from village to village.
699. Bulban died in old age in A.D. 1286. There being no able person
from the Slave Dynasty to succeed him, within four years, a nobleman from
the Khilji family, Jalaluddin, slew the sons and grandsons of Bulban and
proclaimed himself the Sultan of Delhi, putting a stop to the Slave Dynasty
for ever, and starting his own.
Khilji Dynasty
700. This Khilji dynasty of Jalalluddin called itself Pathans (Afghans), if
at all it was of Turkish extraction. Jalalluddin himself was, as the other
Sultans and Muslims were, fired with the devilish ambition to destory the
Hindu political, as well as religious power, root and branch. He was just, as
regards other departments of administration, but was partial to the Muslims.
Seeing the tremendous loss of Muslim lives in the siege of Ratanbhor, he
raised the siege and decamped saying, “I value a single hair of a Muslim
more than a hundred such forts.” But this wisdom of his was so belated, that
the cause for this action of his has to be sought in the unbeaten valour of the
Rajputs. After this failure, he never again troubled the Rajputs.
701. The old Jalalluddin really wanted to enthrone his one ambitious,
brave and staunch Muslim nephew, Allauddin after his own death. So he
had sent him with a large army to face the Rajputs. But not content with this
assignment, which seemed too meagre for his daring Hindu-hatred, he