6_Glorious_Epochs_of_Indian_History

320 SIX GLORIOUS EPOCHS OF INDIAN HISTORY
Sultan of Sultans by the dint of your valour, your versatility,
your military exploits, your arch-diplomacy and your
adroitness in engineering deep-laid plots, and made the
whole of India resound with the glory of Hinduism ! We
have done our duty to relate with proofs your (in a way)
peculiar life to the Hindu Nation and the world at large so
far as it is possible for us do so.
THE PECULIAR CHARACTER OF THIS HINDU
REVOLUTION !
810. Although in this millenial Hindu-Muslim war the
Hindu Nation had been fighting on the political and military
fronts more or less on equal grounds, using effective counter-
ofiensives and tactics and ultimately over-powering the
Muslim sovereigny, it was incessantly overwhelmed on the
religious front, because of their own hateful bans on re­
conversion and the like—fetters, which prevented the Hindus
from opening any counter-offensive on the Muslim religion
as such ! But, this Hindu Emperor, Shree Dharmarakshak
(Nasir-ud-din) successfully launched a counter-attack upon
the Muslims, both on political and military as well as on the
religious front, using the same means and weapons. To
counter-balance the forceful conversion of the Hindus by the
Muslims, Shree Dharmarakshak (Nasir-ud-din) brought
about hundreds of Muslim reconversions to Hinduism and
their repurification ceremonies under the protection of his
armed might. Just as the Muslims used to rush headlong
to ravage and convert the Hindu women to Islam, in the
same way the Hindus broke into the harems of the Muslim
Sultan and converted the willing Mohamedan women to
Hinduism and married them to their Hindu followers. If
the Muslims demolished the Hindu temples, Shree Dharma­
rakshak, in the excitement of this victory, turned the very
Muslim Masjids into Hindu temples. It was this Dharmara­
kshak (Nasir-ud-din) who for the first time in Hindu history
showed so very successfully and on such a large scale how
the Muslim armed aggression upon Hinduism and the