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

on their sites, forced thousands of Hindus to be converted. These
innumerable converted Hindus made big farming and feudal estates in this
Deccan itself. But Hindus, however, did not massacre these Muslims nor
did they destroy them outright as and when they subdued the Muslim
power later on. This is what we call the perversion of the concept of
virtues!
Most often the Hindus used the same War strategy of the Muslims,
according to the Military Science of the time
739. On the religious front, the Hindus were, thus, being vanquished
mostly because of their own foolish religious concepts and traditions, but
on the political front, they were fighting with the Muslims as they ought to
have done! Even after being completely overcome, they rose again and
again and defeated the Muslims! Craftiness and cunning were generally
matched with the same strategic moves by the Hindus!
740. Allauddin surpassed every other Sultan before him in cruelty in the
persecution of the Hindus. He would have reached greater heights in cruelty
in respect of his treatment of the Hindus, had he not been forced to fight on
the other front with the Mongols, who unceasingly hurled their armed might
against the western borders of India and caused a great turmoil throughout
Mongolia and Cenral Asia. A few of them took to Islam and formed a new
Muslim colony in Delhi itself. At last, the enraged Allauddin cut off the
whole of this new Muslim colony to a man!
Death of Allauddin
741. Allauddin was the first and the last Muslim Sultan to rule over
practically the whole of India with the exception of some Hindu states like
those of Chitod and others. Neither Akbar nor even Aurangzeb can take that
place, as their territories never equalled those of Allauddin.
742. But in his old age, Allauddin was surely afflicted by his bodily
diseases, which were the outcome of his physical vices. Naturally, he
became a tool in the hands of Maliq Kafur, and in that miserable state, this
valorous but Hindu-hater Sultan died of dropsy in A.D. 1316 or as it is said,
Maliq Kafur killed him or had him killed. His ‘Allah’ could not bless him
with a happy death because of his virtue of Hindu-hatred! In a few days
Maliq Kafur, a one-time slave of Allauddin, usurped the whole power of
Allauddin, but in the political chaos that ensued after Allauddin, he was
soon killed. In the turbulent days that followed, a certain Khushrukhan of
exceptional abilities, who had been shining in the diplomatic circles at