Battle of Rajasthan – Hindu martial prowess crushed brutal Islamists
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee once lamented
since Bengali Hindus are not interested to maintain their own history. But this
grave mistake is not limited to Bengalis only – Hindus, on the whole, remain naïve
to maintain own history or else the chronicle of Battle of Rajasthan where a
Hindu alliance routed Islamists marching all the way from Arab to wrest power
from Hindus would not have been forgotten.
The fierceness, desperation of
Hindus in the war continues to amaze us still. We do experience a feeling of
awe to learn how a small band of Hindu warriors fought so fiercely that the
large, dispirited and beleaguered Muslim army had to go back to the Indus river
resulting in the stoppage of Islamic invasions into India for (almost) the next
two centuries.
When we Hindus mull over people’s
resistance episodes of Stalingrad and bloody resistance of Germans against
advancing Soviet Army (both during World War II) knock us before anything else.
But the Battle of Rajasthan
outmatches those even – Hindu martial prowess (turned into a casualty by now) continuing
unabated from the days of Vedas till then without respite triumphed to save the
sanctity of Dharma.
Can
there be any new Nagabhata or Vikramaditya among Hindus these days?
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