6_Glorious_Epochs_of_Indian_History

•5TH GLORIOUS EPOCH 233
their miserable Hindu brethren in Muslim bondage. No,
no ! not a single miserable soul was at that time reconverted
to Hinduism!
582. The natural consequence of it all was that those
thousands of our brutally converted Hindu mothers and
sisters anxiously waiting for the victorious Hindu armies to
•set them free from those hellish tortures and death-like
humiliation in the Muslim prison-like homes must have most
probably turned away from the doors and windows in utter
•despair ! To see none of the soldiers ever caring to recognize
and pity them—let alone to rescue and reconvert them-^
must have rent their hearts in two ! They must have resigned
themselves helplessly to the Muslim bondage and rotted till
•death bringing forth Muslim offsprings ! What wonder if they
jnight have borne the bitterest grudge against these unavail­
ing Hindu brethren !
583. On the other hand, the Mulla-Moulavis and the
Muslim hooligans and rogues who had so far disappeared
"underground for fear of death very soon came to know that
.neither those victorious armies, nor their chiefs, nor even
the rulers and administrators of Hindu states were going to
punish them individually or collectively for all the wrongs
they had perpetrated against the Hindus. Being thus assured
-of safety they came out boldly and began to move about
freely and enjoy, as their legal right, the abducted Hindu
women and the plundered Hindu property as their own. It
-also might have happened that many Hindus had the
misfortune to witness meekly with their own eyes their own
daughters and nieces and daughters-in-law slaving as wives
or maids in Muslim houses in their own villages and towns.
iBut strangely enough neither the Hindu population there
•nor the Hindu administrators nor again the officers at those
-places ever thought of freeing any of those luckless ladies !
Hardly any such instance is recorded in history. For, the
Eindus had cultivated a shameless religious conceit for over
-centuries together to suffer all the heart-rending humiliation
without a prick of conscience. Nobody as a rule is ashamed