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

shall try to give here the account of the Hindu Hero, Hemoo, as far as we
can do so with the same unassailable logic.
937. It is to be noted that even while he aspired to form a Hindu Empire,
he received help from many Afghan sirdars, who had fallen foul of the
Moghal Muslims and especially of the Babar faction.
938. It is obvious that the life and career of the earlier Hindu Emperor,
Shree Dharmarakshak (Nasir-ud-din), must have served as an ideal to be
followed before Hemoo as regards the original inspiration to found a Hindu
empire and the formation of a detailed scheme of his war of independence
was concerned. An undying fire of freedom which sought to overthrow the
Muslim rule and found a Hindu Empire in its stead had once inspired Shree
Dharmarakshak (Nasir-ud-din) to bring about a glorious yet unsuccessful
military coup, spurred Rana Sang and other Rajput warriors to cross
swords, although not successfully, with Babar at Kanvah and at hundreds of
places earlier and later, had stimulated millions of Hindu men and women
to undergo all extremities of fortunes, to fight horrible battles or to
immolate their lives to save their religion. The same blazing fire of freedom
glowed clear and bright in the Hindu heart of Hemoo, the ambitious Hindu
leader.
938A. As has been said above, he secretly prepared for a decisive battle,
organized the Muslim dissentients against the Moghals and the Hindu army
marched against Delhi. All the Hindu-Muslim officers at Delhi had served
under him when he was the Chief Minister (Vazir). There, other politicians
and the Hindus in general, offered him no opposition worth the name,
surrendering to his once dreaded influence as a Vazir. His conquest of
Delhi, the chief capital of Moghal empire, caused a great commotion
everywhere.
939. Hemoo was born a staunch Hindu. During the Sultan’s regime, he
rose to political eminence by sheer dint of his merit without the slightest
slur on his Hindu individuality. In the end, assuming responsibility as the
weak Sultan’s Vazir, he began to control the whole imperial administration
and consolidate power into his own hands. And now he had openly hoisted
the standard of Hinduism, boosted up a Hindu imperial power trampling
down the whole of the Muslim Sultanate! Quite naturally, the whole of the
Muslim world was rocked to the bottom with the cry that Islam was
doomed and that kafirs flourished!