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

because of our thoughtlessness, the result is just the reverse. Only because
Nepal did not get lost in the mire of foreign domination and slavery and
because it kept itself aloof from the political upheavals in India, our
frivolous history books mention that nation only in passing or never at all!
985. In order to rectify this spineless (dishonourable) perversion, we
started a movement in India as soon as we were released from the
Andamans in 1924 in respect of Nepal, as people well know. At that very
time, we wrote a book on the History of Nepalese Movement! (नेपाली
आंदोलनाचा इतिहास) and in it we gave an account of the brave history
of Nepal and its role in the protection and maintenance of the independence
of Hindu religion and culture. But now in this discourse on Hindu history,
paucity of space prevents any such detailed account--and there is no need
for it. In the early part of the tenth century and onwards, Nepal was
governed by Newari Hindus. Thereafter, it was captured by some of the
Rajputs who left Rajputana because of the Muslim aggression to seek
fortune elsewhere. Gradually, these Rajputs spread up to Kathmandu, which
they made their capital. The strong Hindu government which these Rajputs
established there is the modern Nepal. This much reference is enough here
to attract the attention of the Indian Hindus to its importance and to the
homogeneity of race of Nepal with ours.
986. These Rajputs being strong worshippers and protectors of the cow
(गोरक्षक), eventually came to be called Gorkha by caste.
986A. Although it refers to the more recent times, we should like to make
a special mention of the fact that while the whole of India was being
governed by the English, thousands of Gorkhas (Gurkhas) had joined the
English army and in both the great world wars, they showed so much
prowess and bravery and exceptional skill in fighting, that even the best
soldiers in England, America and Germany, too, were astounded. Hence,
today a Gurkha soldier has proverbially come to mean an excellent warrior!
The latter half of Akbar's life
987. It has already been shown, in Paragraphs 946 to 954 of this book,
what cruelty and atrocity Akbar resorted to in order to crush Hinduism and
the Hindu rulers. Even those passing references alone are quite sufficient to
prove that he was as fanatical and as fiercely inimical to Hinduism and the
Hindu nation, as was either Allauddin or Aurangzeb.