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6TH GLORIOUS EPOCH
23.
The Sixth Glorious Epoch of Hindu
Victories over the Aggressors
India freed from the British Domination
1094. This Chapter on the Sixth Glorious Epoch of Hindu Victories Over
Aggressors is the last one.
1094A. The scope of this book has been defined in Paragraph 7 of the first
chapter of this book. That delimitation itself suggests that in this chapter on
the Sixth Glorious Epoch of Hindu victories, it is not at all necessary to give
a detailed account of how, while the British had firmly established their
mighty empire on the whole of India, the Hindu nation could make itself
independent and how it has taken a place of pride as an indigenous and
sovereign republic amongst the nations of the world. The only object of this
chapter is just to examine and assess only salient points in this exciting war
of liberation of the Hindu nation from the British, which have been
purposely overlooked by almost all the foreign as well as the independent
historians, notwithstanding the fact that they are highly important from the
point of view of Hindutwa.
1095. But that too, I have done for the most part in my other books, as far
as it was necessary to do so:
1096. (1) It is already mentioned at the end of the last chapter that the
Hindus had completely uprooted the foreign Muslim empire from India and
Hindu States had once again, been established everywhere and the Muslims
did not, in fact, wield any imperial authority over the land of Hindusthan.
But while the Hindu nation was thus inextricably involved in a gigantic
millennial war to root out the Muslim imperial power from India and while
all its energies and time were utilized in that direction, European nations
like the Portuguese, the French, the Dutch and especially, the English had
already commenced their efforts at establishing their rule over India secretly
or even openly. The Marathas, who had assumed the leadership of the
Hindu nation at that time, had simultaneously to face all these European
nations, just when they were carrying on a life and death struggle with the
Muslims! Although they had been mostly successful in the end in arresting