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
DevanagariHindipublished494 पृष्ठ
पृष्ठ 339, कुल 494 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 339
- Even a solitary instance in the times of Rajaram, regarding
Aurangzeb, may be suffcient to show clearly what great havoc was caused
amongst the vast and unwieldy Muslim armies, harassed, hacked and hewed
by these Maratha guerrillas! The huge armies of Aurangzeb pursued the
Maratha force right up to Jinji (or Zinji) in the South, reducing their
territories as they went. But? - the moment they turned their back, they saw
that smaller bands of the Maratha irregulars had already crossed the
Narmada and after having entered Gujarath, they had frightened the
Subhedar of that province out of his wits. Farther off, the Marathas were
often reported to have attacked the central provinces to the utter dismay of
the already confused Moghal Emperor. In the end, giving up Maharashtra as
precipitately as they would have dropped a glowing cinder from their
hands, those huge Moghal hosts hacked, harassed and harried by the
indomitable Maratha warriors retreate, crestfallen, back to Delhi. - It is not correct to assume that the Marathas had resorted to this
aggressive war policy only so long as their martial power and their
administrative machinery had not had a sound footing or had not grown
sufficiently strong. On the other hand, they renewed their aggressive
incursions into the remaining Muslim territories under the command of the
invincible veteran war leaders, like Bajirao I, with greater rigour and zest,
when every one of the several Sardars and Chieftains had tens and scores
and thousands of soldiers under them, fighting, conquering and establishing
Maratha rule right from Jinji to Gujarat and even Malwa and Central India!
If at all, they were to establish Hindu-Padpadshahi throughout the whole of
India, the defensive war policy of preserving whatever they had, would
have been of little use. They had necessarily to adopt the bolder policy of
making new acquisitions. That way, those brave and indefatigable Maratha
warriors had an insatiable desire to assail their religious enemies whenever
and wherever they could!
The aggressive war policy of the Marathas stopped the inroads of the
Foreign Enemies beyond the Himalayas - The reports that the bold thrusts of Bajirao I right up to the gates of
Delhi, had convulsed the Moghal imperial power to its very foundations
and rendered it disjointed, and that the mighty Maratha armies were about
to invade the territories even beyond Delhi up to Punjab, did not fail to give
a rude shock to the Muslim powers of Kabul, Ghazni, Iran, Turan, Balkh,
Bokhara, Arabia and other countries beyond the Himalayas!