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

kind, at least till that day. And most wonderful of all, was the fact that
Sultan Mubarik's supreme commander and chief administrator,
Khushrukhan himself, working as he was directly under Sultana
Devaldevi's confidential orders, was taken in confidence by the Rajput
leaders in respect of this daring plot to establish a Hindu empire! Such a
rare concurrence of opposing forces is bound to astound history itself!
Stand to reason, it never can, till at least something miraculous happens.
768. But something of the kind did begin to shape itself at the time. In the
fiery brains of Sultana Devaldevi and Khushrukhan, there really was
seething some such extraordinarily magnificent and by its very nature
almost an incredible idea or plan, which seemed possible only to some
mysterious intrigue and daring of a Nurshinh!
769. But neither their enemies nor their friends could breathe it openly!
For with what magic wand was this supreme commander of Mubarik—the
commander, who had brought all the Hindu states in the Deccan to meek
submission before the Muslim Sultan-who had very recently devastated the
wealthy Hindu kingdom of Malabar and hoisted there the green Muslim flag
of the Delhi Sultanate—and who, above all, had come to Delhi to lay down
all that success, all that glory, as an humble homage at the feet of the
Muslim emperor—how was he, the sole supporter of the India-wide foreign
and non-Hindu empire—he, who, born though he was as a Hindu, had
become converted to Islam—how was a man of such a status likely to
transform so suddenly the whole Muslim empire into a Hindu one? No
staunch Muslim could even dare express it openly. Khushrukhan and
Devaldevi had been keeping up till the last, the pretence of their being
diehard Muslims and of their greatest loyalty to the Muslim Sultan and his
empire so scrupulously and thoroughly, that even their direst enemies who
had dark suspicions of their having underground connections with the
Hindu rulers, feared that were they personally to charge Khushrukhan
before the Sultan in Delhi or in the open court, the Sultan would point out
proofs to the contrary and outwit them forthwith. Even the top-level
Muslim officials feared this eventuality. Whatever complaints had reached
the general populace of Delhi of the ears of the Sultan himself were so
baseless and completely anonymous, that nobody credited them with any
more veracity or seriousness than they would do hearsay report or false
accusations by some mischief-mongers!