6_Glorious_Epochs_of_Indian_History

6TH GLORIOUS EPOCH 229
Marathas to their empire. All the Hindu states, which he
had vowed to wipe out at the time of his accession to the
throne, began once again to rule peacefully in their own
places. If any one was totally ruined, it was Tipu himself
with all his Muslim territory.
HINDUS' SUCCESS
572. Thus the violent religious aggression under Tipu's
leadership, which the Muslims in South India had launched
and perpetrated with a crescendo against the Hindus during
the two decades or so immediately preceding the year A.D.
1790 was heroically and successfully put down by the Hindus
politically as well as on the battle-field.
MUSLIMS GAIN
673. Maratha warriors, claiming to defend Hindu reli­
gion, smashed the Muslim military and political might as has
been already described. But they did not simultaneously
deal any counter-blow to their religious front in order to
repulse and avenge their all-out attempt to disrupt Hinduism,
their mass-conversions of Hindus, their most heinous attacks
upon the chastity of thousands of Hindu women. They did
not severely penalize the perpetrators of these crimes. No,
they did not do anything of the kind to attack the Muslim
religion in return !
THE RESULT
674-676. The inevitable consequence was that the two or
three hundred thousand forcibly converted Hindu men and
women and children remained groaning with agony in the clut­
ches of the Muslim community in South India. Although Tipu's
political power perished completely under the heavy counter­
blows of the combined Maratha-English swords and spears,
the religious domination he forced on the millions of Hindus
grew ever stronger and stronger in the absence of any counter-
offensive. The future generations of these converted Hindus,
in the absence of any immediate reconversion, went on adding