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222 SIX GLORIOUS EPOCHS OF INDIAN HISTORY<br />

wrecked far more appalling vengeance on the Hindus. It<br />

was this fear, they said, that prompted the Hindus to accept,<br />

as an exceptional code <strong>of</strong> conduct suitable for the adverse<br />

circumstances, those various bans and the morbidly perverted<br />

concept <strong>of</strong> virtues which amounted really to abject<br />

surrender'*.<br />

563-A. So in order to refute these and other illogical<br />

arguments and to support our arguments and opinions and<br />

the various references we have made in the foregoing dis­<br />

course we shall cite another event which will go to prove<br />

conclusively our inference that the HINDUS HAD THE<br />

ABILITY AND STRENGTH TO LAUNCH ARMED COUN­<br />

TER-OFFENSIVES EVEN ON THE RELIGIOUS FRONT<br />

BUT THEY HAD NOT THE WILL TO DO SO !<br />

554. That event is the Maratha war with the Muslims in<br />

the South which destroyed Tipu Sultan !

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