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

insurrection. Ultimately, the administrator and governor of Punjab under the
Sultan of Delhi, by name Ghyasuddin, aspired to shoulder that
responsibility. He began sending secret emissaries and epistles to that effect
to various higher Muslim authorities under Sultan Nasir-ud-din.
Ghyasuddin himself had sworn allegiance to the Sultan and was appointed
military Governor of Punjab, while one of his sons was an officer at Delhi
itself under the direct control of this ‘Hinduised Sultan’. Ghyasuddin called
this son of his for a private visit under some pretext, and gathered every sort
of minute detail about the situation in Delhi in his private interview with
that son. Whereupon he came to know for certain that after the murder of
Allauddin, his sons and relatives were either killed or deprived of their
eyesight and thus rendered useless. When he was thus satisfied that there
was no proper heir of Allauddin’s for the Sultanate at Delhi, he was all the
more elated to declare boldly, that as there was no proper heir left from the
house of Allauddin’s, it was only some powerful Muslim who could lay
claim to the throne at Delhi. That kafir Hindu Paria was not to be suffered to
touch it even. That kafir had married all the widows of all the earlier sultans
and the young Muslim girls and maidens from the royal palace to the Parias
(sweepers), whom he had formerly raised to eminence, and converted all
those ladies of the Muslim royal families to Hinduism. As no Muslim dared
to dethrone such a sinful Hindu kafir, he himself was going to shoulder the
responsibility.
800. For the first time, these secret letters of his were turned down with
spite by the top Muslim officers, while some others placed them into the
hands of Dharmarakshak Nasir-ud-din himself, who having already
apprehended such an eventuality and undaunted by it, calmly prepared
himself to crush this rising of Ghyasuddin immediately. Good many
Muslim generals, who had acknowledged him as a Sultan, enlisted their
forces in his service while the Hindu section of that imperial army was
always ready to fight at the cost of their lives under his standard.
801. At last, depending chiefly on the Muslim battalions, which were
employed under his command for the protection of Punjab and the frontiers,
Ghyasuddin decided to march upon Delhi. Some Hindu soldiers, too, were
amongst those advancing Muslim forces. No sooner did he hear that
Ghyasuddin was marching towards Delhi than the Hindu Emperor—
Dharmarakshak Nasir-ud-din himself—attacked him with his whole
imperial army. Along with this Hindu Emperor, marched the great Muslim