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

Arabic can have some information. Most of the Muslim writers mention
Khushrukhan with utmost scorn and finish him within four or five lines
only. The reason is plain enough. The Muslim historians can never bear
with equanimity Khushrukhan’s taking the conceit out of the Muslim rule at
Delhi. Even these Muslim historians have found it at places improper to
distort and garble up the truth about Khushrukhan or to suppress it
altogether. Their manuscripts, especially the recently published ones, prove
very useful in this respect. Even the account by the recent Hindu historians,
who based their conclusions on the above mentioned old Muslim books, is
to that extent useless. The Hindu writers have done nothing more than
merely repeating the obloquies like ‘mean-minded’, ‘shameless’,
‘dastardly’, hurled at him by the Muslim writers. But there are two
honourable exceptions to this general tendency: one is that of the veteran
historian Riasatkar Sardesai and the other of Shree Munshi. These two
historians, however, have given a comparative account of Khushrukhan and
Devaldevi, too, and have attempted to appraise, though very faintly and
cursorily, the great revolution they had finally effected to etablish a Hindu
empire. But theirs is a half-hearted attempt, which fears its own
conclusions, and which could never fully grasp nor could explain the real
implications and nature of that unprecedented revolution. A contemporary
Hindu writer, who could elucidate the Hindu side of this great event is,
obviously enough, not to be found! For, no Hindu of the time could have
been dared to express his own independent opinions or judgement.
766. Under these circumstances, it is only possible to give in the form of a
connected narrative, the obvious conclusion that can be drawn from what
little consistency can be found in the disconnected reports in the above-
mentioned original Muslim writings, and the actual undisputed acts of the
leading personalities like Khushrukhan, Devaldevi and others.
767. As already told above, Khushrukhan went to Delhi with his
victorious army and the immense spoils he had gathered in the Deccan, But
why did he go there? Not only in Delhi but even in the Deccan a political
rumour was secretly disseminated amongst the Hindu political circles that
the Hindu leaders, who were organizing Hindu revolts in the south against
the Muslims, were in collusion with Khushrukhan about some deep-laid
conspiracy to disrupt the Muslim empire. In Gujarat, Khushrukhan’s brother
himself was the de facto ruler, while all the Rajputs were inspired by Rana
Hameer to overthrow the India-wide unitary Muslim empire, the first of its