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

Hindu nation and Hindu welfare as any other. The Hindu nation must always
bow down its head in all reverence to this hero, who unfortunately is not so
remembered amongst the very few so-called martyrs and warriors in the
Hindu world. Well be it so! But even if the millions of these self-deceived
and ungrateful Hindus have forgotten him, the Hindu nation as a whole must
always remember that the undying Hindu aspiration to free itself, which was
kept continually ablaze through a succession of generations and over
centuries together and which ultimately rent to pieces the Muslim imperial
power, planting on its dead remains the glorious banner of an India-wide
Hindu empire, was fed on the now forgotten martyrdom, and the sacrificial
offerings of their lives on the altar of war, of the numerous brave heroes like
Hemoo, who were दिल्लींद्र पदलिप्सव (ambitious of being the lords of
Delhi).
943. Here itself, may we offer our reverential tributes to the glorious
memory of Vikramaditya Hemoo, the great, and proceed futher!
The Valiant Queen Durgawati
944. Bahiramkhan, thereafter, took Akbar straight to Delhi, later they two
together reduced all the rebels up to Gwalior (Gwalher). But they soon fell
out and Akbar assumed supreme authority, whereupon Bahiramkhan
rebelled, but was defeated. Even then, Akbar did not kill him outright, but
sent him away to Makka. Bahiramkhan, however, fell a prey to a revengeful
enemy of his of the earlier days.
945. In A.D. 1564, the independent Rajput King in Gondwana, named Veer
Narayan, was attacked by Akbar. King Veer Narayan was a minor. Yet his
mother, the dowager Qeeen Durgawati, decided not to surrender but to fight
the well-equipped imperial army of Akbar, and offered such a tough
resistance that for a while, the invaders were astounded. She bravely
defended the cause of Hinduism till she was overwhelmed by the vastly
superior numbers of the Muslim emperor. But did she sue for peace and lay
down arms? Did she ask for the imperial clemency as for a powerless
woman? Or, did she send a ‘Rakhi’ to Akbar and abjectly request him to treat
her as a sister and show mercy to her as did some other Rajput ladies, off and
on? No, not at all! Knowing full well from hundreds of such cases how these
Muslim wolves ill-treated and molested the royal Hindu ladies, who fell
captives in their hands, Rani Durgawati staunchly refused to do anything of
the kind. She, on the contrary, offered her body, along with many other ladies
of the court, to the ‘sacred’ fire of the battle. She left strict orders to her