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

the yoke of Muslim domination and to establish all over India, a sovereign
Hindu power. The inner urge of the new resurgent Maharashtra was to
dethrone the Muslim imperial power at Delhi, and to hoist in its place the
Hindu imperial standard. The anguish that rankled in the hearts of the
Hindus and that found expression in Shree Ramdas’s famous couplet—
1005-6.या सकल भूमंडला ठायी।
हिन्दू ऐसा उरला नाही।
(‘Nowhere on the face of this whole earth is there left any Hindu’)
was mainly responsible for all the future glory of the Marathas! The
heartache of the Hindus as expressed by Shree Ramdas.
1007-8. प्रस्तुत यवनां चे बंड। हिन्दू उरला नाहीं चंड।
बहुत दिसां चे मुंड। शास्ता न मिले तयासि।
(At present, the revolt of the Muslims has come to stay, and no daring
Hindu has been left; no one is able to curb and subdue this long standing
evil)
set aglow the whole of Maharashtra. The Maharashtrian movements in
that century spread far and wide throughout India, the invasions and
campaigns, the battles and pursuits and retreats, consistent or inconsistent
historical events, which so far baffled the greatest of historians, can well be
explained by the magic words ‘Hindu Nation’ and ‘Hindu Imperial Power’.
Hence, it is, that I named that book as, ‘Hindu Padpadshahi’, the name
which stamped its own seal on the history of the millennial Hindu-Muslim
war, by gaining ultimate victory over it.
1009. Even in this book of mine, the history of the Marathas has not been
given in all its details, because historians have already done that work
most painstakingly and on a larger scale. Jadunath Sarkar, who wrote in
English, and Riyasatkar Sardesai, who wrote in Marathi, had already
written books collocating all the available research-work most laboriously
done by several research scholars and assimilating and interpreting it in
the best way they could. It is, therefore, to avoid needless repetition that I
did not attempt to write a detailed history of the Marathas. Moreover,
sitting as I was in the small room, made available to me for my residence
in a small village of Shirgaon near Ratnagiri, by my friend Shree
Vishnupant Damale, even in those days of local detention imposed on me