6_Glorious_Epochs_of_Indian_History

?88 SIX GLORIOUS EPOCHS OF INDIAN HISTORY
Indian Hindu Kings of that time were so profound and
criminal that perhaps it is after his kingdom was actually
attacked that the king of Devgiri, Maharaja Ramdevrao
Yadav, came to know of it, and being thoroughly unprepared
to face it was utterly confused**.
723-A. Is it not really strange that even while the
Muslim states were being founded everywhere in the north of
India, while they had been so very cruelly ravaging the
Hindu religion and Hindu states for two or three centuries,
while thousands of Hindu temples were being continuously
and insultingly demolished, while Kashi was almost turned
into Mecca, while Dnyandev, Namdev and other saints and
their followers and millions of travelling Hindu pilgrims
were going right up to the Punjab to visit the holy places and
were returning aggrieved at the sad plight of Hindu religion
there, while the Muslims were openly swearing and voicing
their ambition to invade the South and convert it to Islam,
the Hindu kings of the South should be so very careless and
negligent that instead of collecting their armies and sending
them to the north to help the Rajputs to face the Muslim
aggression, Ramdevrao's forces under some of his chieftains,
should have gone far to the South, and Ramdevrao himself
should have been wandering most frivolously with his small
army hunting wild animals away from his capital ? But—
724. Let alone Ramdevrao's state of Devgiri 1 But
didn't even a single spy from the secret intelligence service
of the four or five prominent Hindu states in the south go to
the north and observe and inform his king or kings anything
even while the north-Indian Hindus were so pitifully groan­
ing and rending the skies with their miserable cries ? But !
But !!
725. Under these circumstances it is no wonder if
Ramdevrao was utterly vanquished. Allauddin extorted from
Ramdevrao a huge ransom, made him a mandatory prince
and went off hurriedly to Delhi because of some political
urgency. It was really fortunate that, according to the
Muslim custom, the whole state of Ramdevrao was not