"If Akbar can be called 'Akbar the Great' for his contribution, then why can't Maharana Pratap be recognised as 'Maharana Pratap the Great," he had said while unveiling Maharana Pratap’s statue in Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh district. More recently, as Firstpost had earlier reported Home Minister Rajnath Singh wanted to take the epithet "great" from Akbar and transfer it to Maharana Pratap. Alongside this are a flurry of social media posts and discussions that "the real history of Akbar" reveals him to be a "rapist, looter and killer, coming from a family of drunkards and child molesters," according to this Times of India article. However, the damage seems to have been done.Ī few weeks ago, members of a Hindutva outfit broke a road sign with Akbar's name on it in Delhi because they wanted the street renamed after Hindu rulers, like Shivaji or Maharana Pratap.
The community claims that Maharana Pratap fought for freedoms against the Mughals, but he wasn't really anti-Muslim. The claim is that the content is misleading and politically motivated for an entertainment purpose. The Rajput community is upset with this portrayal. Screen grab from Youtube of Bharat Ka Veer Putr: Maharana Pratap
The show portrays Maharana Pratap as the courageous Rajput warrior king fighting against a troop of allegedly Muslim enemies, headed by Akbar. However, if Maharana Pratap is anything to go by, only black and white exist in the world of history. At most there would be a chapter dedicated to each ruler. Not many of us who still vaguely recollect the contents of our history books, remember there being such a polarisation in the portrayal of our past leaders. If you have followed the show over the years - it premiered in 2013 - 400 episodes later, Maharana Pratap is still the great ruler and his arch-nemesis Akbar is a lusty, cruel wannabe leader whose sole aim in life is to kill Maharana Pratap. From the treatment of episode 1 itself, you can tell the tone of the show.
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The first episode of the TV show Bharat ka Veer Putra: Maharana Pratap, which is aired on Sony Entertainment Television, starts with an Amitabh Bachchan narration about the landscape of India 500 years ago and the birth of a great ruler, Maharana Pratap.
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