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

the brave Daheer, the one offered by the valiant Jayapal or his son
Anangpal or the last battle given by Veer Prithviraj or again the one fought
by Maharana Sanga, in every decisive action fought throughout, through all
these centuries up to that fought in 1565 A.D. at Talikot by the dauntless
Ramraja of Vijaynagar the scales of war turned always against the Hindus
—the Hindus alone were unmistakably defeated!
But since the beginning of the 17th Century
1019. That means from the birth of Shivaji, so to say, the same cruel
Goddess of War began to show a highly astonishing difference in her
verdict regarding the same Hindu-Muslim struggle. And it was this! Just as
formerly, it seemed almost predetermined that the Hindus were bound to be
defeated in every Hindu-Muslim struggle, similarly now onwards, wherever
the Hindu-Muslim armies met, the Hindu victory was almost assured and
the Muslim defeat a foregone conclusion! From this seventeenth century
onwards, wherever they met the Muslims in a state of war, the Hindus
invariably vanquished them! Whether they were the decisive battles shaking
the very foundations of states or nations or whether they were only fleeting
skirmishes, the victory for the Hindus and the rout of the Muslims was the
result! Every Hindu young man should necessarily read the long list of
Hindu victories from the same book of mine viz: Hindu Padpadshahi, the
victories which swell our hearts with pride, the victories again that were
won not only on land from Punjab to Kanyakumari in the south seas but in
hundreds of naval engagements from the Western (the so-called Arabian
sea!) to the Eastern (the Bay of Bengal) seas!
The guiding principle of the new Maratha strategy—Aggression—not
merely defence
1020. The most important reason why since the time the Marathas
assumed the military leadership of the Hindu nation, the Hindus alone went
on winning victories, as has been already shown above, all over the vast
subcontinent of India whenever they joined battle with the Muslims, was
that these Marathas with their daring valour, had at once purged the Hindu
mind of that pernicious epidemic of the perverted sense of virtues, which
had afflicted and paralysed most of the Hindu society all over India and
which had given birth to the false notion of chivalry, deeming it highly
despicable from the ethical point of view, a veritable sin, as it were to lead a
military attack—even against the direst enemy.