भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
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पृष्ठ 324, कुल 494 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 324
- European writers on Indian history slowly hint and our Hindu writers
slavishly and thoughtlessly imitate them. When they say that Akbar was not
like other Moghal or Muslim fellows, meaning thereby that he did not hate
Hinduism and the Hindu nation, that he was just, and never differentiated
between the Hindus and the Muslims, that he ruled equitably and, as such,
the Hindus must be highly grateful to him. This eulogy of Akbar is utterly
false. We, Hindus, can either show respect, gratitude and affection for Rana
Pratap or for his dire enemy, Akbar. How can we show equal affection and
respect for both of them? How can we worship God and the devil at the
same time? How even can we compare the fanatical Akbar who deprived
the independence of the Hindu kings like Rana Pratap and thrust the yoke of
slavery on their necks, who demanded the Hindu royal princesses as queens
and concubines in order to add insult to their injury and attacked with his
vast armies those, who declined to do so, and crushed them completely—
how can we compare him with those thousands of martyrs and valiant
Hindu leaders like Rana Pratap and Rani Durgawati, who laid down their
lives on the battlefields in defence of Hindu Nation, Hindu states and Hindu
religion? - Another important point that has so far escaped the notice of many of
our gullible and slavish Hindu writers, is that to say that Akbar treated all
his subjects equally and sponsored equality of status for the whole humanity
—as is being taught in schools—is absolutely erroneous and is the result of
bad habit of extolling the Muslims unproportionately. For, being a Moghal
Emperor, he never hesitated to crush down ruthlessly anyone who refused
to bear the yoke of his sovereignty—might he then be a Muslim or a Hindu!
Now all the Muslims were not Moghals. As a matter of fact, many of them
hated the Moghals bitterly, because he had extended his empire by
destroying the old Afghan and Turkish Sultanates. It means that like any
other ambitious adventurer, Akbar fought for the sake of his own Moghal
glory not only against the Hindus alone but against others also. Obviously
enough, he did not treat even the Muslims equally. He liquidated and
annexed many Muslim kingdoms. Only with a view to safeguarding the
interests of his empire, did Akbar in his later life repeal the revolting
religious taxes like the Jizia and refrained from opening campaigns of mass
conversion of Hindus. There was no such intention of behaving equitably,
the Hindus and the Muslims behind this policy, as is generally supposed.
On the contrary, he knew quite well that whenever such atrocities were