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

another Rajput Prince, who, however, because of many maladies, lost his
balance of mind and voluntarily became a Muslim.
851. BENGAL: When ultimately in A.D. 1192, Mohammad Ghori
subjugated the Sultanate of Delhi for ever, he sent many valorous chieftains
under him to subdue the Hindu states round about. One of them, Bakhtyar
Khilji, overcame the Hindu rule in Bihar and Bengal in A.D. 1195 and
founded the Muslim rule there for the first time. Of his persecution of the
Hindus and especially of the Buddhists and their wholesale conversion to
Islam, we have already said enough in Paragraph Nos. 342 to 356. On this
very occasion, this wild fiendish commander of the Muslim forces razed to
the ground the world famous University of Nalanda, which had a glorious
tradition of over five centuries to its credit. The Muslims set fire to the vast
and invaluable collection of innumerable books, which had kept burning, it
is said, for six months. But the Muslims never allowed anybody to put the
fire down before it quenched of itself, and every written record was reduced
to ashes!
Want of armed might renders the power of Science as also the power
of Religion Miserably Helpless—one more illustration!
852. In that vast burning library, there were innumerable valuable books
of the Vedic, Buddha, Jain and other religions. But to protect them from fire
came neither the Vedic Gods, nor Lord Buddha, no, not even Lord Jain! The
actual armed might of the devotees is the only armed strength the Gods
seem to have!
853. In the end, Bakhtyar Khilji conquered the last of the Sen Kings and
after annexing Bengal, started his campaign of the wholesale conversion of
the Hindus to Islam.
854. The Muslim Subedars themselves rebelled from time-to-time against
the paramount power of Delhi and calling themselves the Sultans of Bengal,
ruled the province independently. Fakruddin was the first of them to
announce his independent sway over Bengal in A.D. 1347. Since then, these
Afghan Sultans had ruled the province till A.D. 1576. Once in the meantime
in A.D. 1386, a Hindu Jamindar named Kans overthrew this Afghan rule
and established Hindu power in Bengal. When this King Kans died in A.D.
1392, his son Jitmalla came to the throne of Bengal. But to the greater
discredit of the Hindus there, this Hindu King Jitmalla once had the wanton
caprice to court Islam, and he changed his name to Jalaluddin! And to the
greater shame of the Hindus, be it said that not a single Hindu throughout