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

despising this religious revolution of the Hindus and the Hindu Empire, as
often as he sent them to those Muslim officers, who were loyal to him and
with a extremely polite treatment, kept them under his obligation.
794. It is because of this exceptional skill of his at diplomacy that even
after the successful realization of this religio-political revolution of the
Hindus, immediately or for months together thereafter, there was not a
single Muslim revolt—no riots nor brawls—throughout the length and
breadth of his vast empire. His whole administration was working as
smoothly as it did in the days of the old Muslim Sultans. Revenues, taxes or
ransoms were collected from all provinces and remitted to the imperial
treasury at Delhi without any default. In Delhi itself, the greatest of Muslim
knights and feudatory princes, generals and sardars and other courtiers and
officers attended the imperial court on the orders of this Hindu
Dharmarakshak and took their appointed seats. Of the great Muslim
noblemen reported by the historians of the time to be attending the court of
this Hindu emperor, Nasir-ud-din, some may be mentioned here: they were
Ain-ul-Mulk Multani, Yusuf Safi, Hatim Khan, Kamaluddin Sufi, Faruk-did
an-Tughlak, Mulgati, Mohammed Shah, Baharam Anayya, Yuklakhi,
Hoshang, Kaphur Saheb. Because of the presence of these big shots in the
Hindu court of Nasir-ud-din and because of written letters promising
allegiance to the emperor from governors, and administrators and Muslim
officers in the army, peace throughout the whole of India was never broken
for months together.
795. On the other hand, the Hindu kings from Rajputana to Madurai did
not protest, perhaps according to some previous secret pact, against the
revolution effected by this Hindu emperor. Why, availing themselves fully
of this military coup in Delhi, they began to rule the Hindu States
independently as before. Their chief fault was that at this greatest and rarest
of opportunities, they did not make a well-organized effort to proclaim the
independence of the Hindus and establish a united strong central imperial
power at Delhi.
796. Under the circumstances, the shrewd ‘Dharmarakshak’ (Nasir-ud-
din) well knew that although at first his Hindu administration was running
smoothly, his revolutionary Hindu empire depended on no other thing than
his armed might. He, therefore, kept the thousands of his choicest of Hindu
soldiers stationed in the capital in all readiness! At every vital centre of
defence in his empire, he drafted his most faithful Hindu battalions and also