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

Khushrukhan and Devaldevi
743. If the millions of students who are learning history in all the states in
the Indian Union today are asked what they know of Khushrukhan, a unique
unforgettable character, who was acclaimed as the Sultan of Sultans in the
Muslim Sultanate at Delhi, and who was worthy of high praise from the
point of view of the Hindus, it is more likely than not, that at least 93 per
cent of these millions of students will reply with evident surprise,
“Khushrukhan? No, we haven’t come across any major reference to such a
man as you describe!” Let alone the students, but even if you were to ask
the same question to the teachers in general, to the whole editorial staff of
the newspapers in India or even to any educated man or woman, at least 75
per cent of them will very probably reply in the same manner; ‘who is this
Khushrukhan? We have never heard even of his name!’
744. It is for this very reason that we are attempting to give a brief sketch
of his life and work, as far as we can do so with the available evidence. For,
although he is a unique character in the modern Indian history, his name has
been obliterated, as it were, by the Muslim historians and their blind foreign
and Indian, Hindu followers, from the textbooks of history used in schools,
for his sole offence of putting the Muslim Sultanate to shame in order to
avenge the wrongs and insults hurled by them at the Hindu nation.
Wherever he has been mentioned, he has been given the most insulting and
abusive attributes like, ‘low-bred’, ‘depraved’, ‘a knave’, ‘a hell-hound’ by
the Muslim writers.
The early history of Khushrukhan
745. When in the reign of Allauddin, Gujarat had to face the first
onslaught of the Muslims in A.D. 1298 and the governing authority of the
Hindus was much shaken down, in the chaotic conditions then prevailing, a
very tender, attractive but very brilliant Hindu youth had been captured and
made a slave by the Muslim noblemen and was offered into the service of
Allauddin, much the same way and for the same reason as Maliq Kafur was
made a slave. This youth was originally a Hindu, belonging to the
untouchable caste of Paria of Parwar (sweepers) in Gujarat. One or two
Muslim writers deny that he was a Paria (sweeper), but emphatically assert
that he was a Rajput. Alter having been captured and converted to Islam, he
was first called ‘Hasan’. When he was taken in the service of Allauddin at