6_Glorious_Epochs_of_Indian_History

410 SIX GLORIOUS EPOCHS OF INDIAN HISTORY
retreats, consistent or inconsistent historical events, which so
far baffled the greatest of historians can well be explained by
the magic words 'Hindu Nation'and 'Hindu Imperial Power'.
Hence it isth at I named that book as, 'Hindu Patpadshahi', the
name which stamped its own seal on the history of the millen­
nial Hindu-Muslim war, by gaining ultimate victory over it.
1009. Even in this book of mine the history of the
Marathas has not been given in all its details, because histo­
rians have already done that work most painstakingly and
on a larger scale. Jadunath Sarkar who wrote in English
and Riyasatkar Sardesai who wrote in Marathi had already
written books collocating all the available research-work,,
most laboriously done by several research scholars and
assimilating and interpreting it in the best way they could.
It is therefore to avoid needless repetition that I did not
attempt to write a detailed history of the Marathas. More­
over, sitting as I was in the small room, made available to­
me for my residence in a small village of Shirgaon near
Ratnagiri, by my friend Shree Vishnupant Damale, even in.
those days of local detention imposed on me by the British
Government, I could not think of writing such a big volume-
without the aid of reference books !
THE HINDU NATION
1010. Just as a man lost in a dense forest on a dark;
night can see everything in its true perspective, in its form
and colour, as soon as he throws around him a flash-light
from the electric torch in his travelling kjt, and in that
enlightened state of his mind can very easily find his way
out, similarly very early in my college days, when I threw
the electric search-light of the Hindu national point of view
on the then extensive but chaotic mass of details about the
history of the Marathas, my mind too, became suddenly
enlightened. Viewed in that brilliant light of the national
Hindu outlook, that whole incoherent, loose and chaotic
mass of historical details regarding the Maratha enterprise-
appeared to me absolutely consistent and well-defined. Then.