Savarkar spoke about how the Islamic invasions were accompanied with large scale abduction, molestation and outraging of the modesty of Hindu women as a ‘religious duty.’27 However Hindu rulers stood by their own values of never touching the womenfolk of the captured, even if the defeated were the same Islamic hordes who heaped ignominy on their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters. This trait was also lauded as being chivalrous. Giving an example, he said: Even now we proudly refer to the noble acts of Chhatrapati Shivaji and Chimaji Appa, when they honourably sent back the daughter-in-law
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