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

the history of this period, appears even to me as the most stimulating, most
searching and teeming with the national spirit imbued with Hindutwa.
Ranade forever closed the mouths of the foreign as well as our own
historians, which derided the Maratha history of the times of Chhatrapati
Rajaram as the anarchy of the rabble, and called it the Maratha War of
Independence.
1012. But the all-India war, which the Maratha fought for nearly a century
subsequent to the times of Rajaram, was not merely a Maratha War of
Independence, it was an all-India war of Hindu Independence. My book
‘Hindu Padpadshahi’, is really the golden temple of the survey and
appraisal of that great war—an enthralling piece of sculpture in colour and
solidity, of the Goddess of that great war, like any in the Caves of Ajantha.
1013. And still every paragraph in that book is based on solid evidence
not because extracts from the writings of other renowned historians of
acknowledged authority have been freely used therein, but because the
very sentences uttered by the heroes who actually fought on the various
battlefields and by those who actually played the political and diplomatic
game are cited. Extracts from the letters fresh from their hands, written just
after the events have been profusely used. As such, the book is as
authoritative, as it is interesting to read. The genius of the historians,
Rajwade, does not seem to have altogether missed this all-India character
of this Maratha history. But in his writings, it did not receive the all-round
treatment it deserved. Perhaps his writing itself was so extensive and varied
as to preclude even the vast intellectual capacities of the man from
grasping its full significance and import. His incidental and desultory
discourses on the subject appear, by the very nature of their topics,
incomplete and inconsistent. About the English, the Muslim and other
historians, we had better not say anything. Under such circumstances,
therefore, my book Hindu Padpadshahi estimating this great Hindu-Muslim
War through the Hindu national angle of vision is the only one of its kind.
That is why I recommend it whole-heartedly to every Hindu nationalist.
1014. That is why, again and because of my failing health, I do not
propose to go in for that review of the war in these pages. The curious
readers might advisedly read it from those pages. It is only necessary here
in these pages of the ‘Six Glorious Epochs of Hindu Victories over the
Aggressors’ to display the golden chain of events that led ultimately to the