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

in the minds of Khushrukhan and Devaldevi, it must have been kept highly
secret with utmost caution.
761. Very soon, Mubarik sent Khushrukhan to the Deccan for an extensive
conquest but he himself did not go with him. So complete was his faith in
Khushrukhan! In this expedition, Khushrukhan subdued the King of
Malabar too, and exacted therefrom immeasurable plunder in the name of
Sultan Mubarik!
But
762. But in this very campaign of South India, various open or secret
Hindu conspiracies against the Muslim empire began to brew up from
various quarters of the South Indian peninsula. The royal Hindu families of
Varangal and Gujrath, the valiant Rana Hameer, the redeemer of Chitod,
and other Hindu Chiefs, the religious leaders and propagandists in the
various religious institutions and monasteries like those of the
Shankaracharya and even the common people were becoming restless and
agitated with a common antagonism to the Muslim domination. And
anonymous complaints by Khushrukhan’s enemies had reached the ears of
the Sultan of Delhi to the effect that Khushrukhan was in some mysterious
way and most secretly connected with this universal discontent!
763. So, scanty and self-contradictory bits of information are available in
the writings of the contemporary Muslim writers about this Khushrukhan,
the conqueror of Malabar, and the whole of the Muslim empire, that we
have to correlate them into some sort of consistent account, only as far as it
is possible from the later happenings! Once in the open court of the Sultan
at Delhi there was a rumour, which apprehended that instead of coming
back to Delhi amongst the ring of his adversaries, Khushrukhan was about
to escape to some neighbouring foreign island by sea with the immense
wealth he had amassed in the South. One Muslim writer has gone to the
length of saying that Khushrukhan was brought back to Delhi in fetters!
764. With an exceptional daring and ability to cut off the strings of the net
of inimical conspiracies with one stroke, Khushrukhan at once declared his
intention to go back to Delhi in the grand manner of the conqueror of the
South with all his army. For, his secret accomplice, the former Hindu
princess but now the Muslim empress, Devaldevi, must have been keeping
him posted with every detail of the daily happenings at Delhi!
765. From the few English translations of the Muslim books of the time
that are now available, even those who do not know either Persian or