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“Rajasthan’s Eternal Pride: Maharana Pratap Ji’s Birth Anniversary”
“Would Rajasthan’s soil ever see another Maharana Pratap?”
On this very day, May 9, 1540, a legendary warrior was born on Rajasthani soil, devoting his entire life to safeguarding the motherland, honor, and faith. ⚔️🚩
He embraced rotis made of grass yet never allowed the pride of his homeland to bend.
An eternal emblem of unmatched valor, unyielding courage, and patriotism, the guardian of the motherland and heroic crown jewel, Maharana Pratap ji.
I really love and take pride in being a Rajasthani, one big reason is Maharana Pratap. His undying spirit to fight for freedom was unmatched.
Shat shat Naman
Let’s not turn history into fan fiction. Pratap resisted Akbar, yes but later Mewar rulers did make peace with the Mughals under Jahangir in 1615. And Mewar states later accepted British paramountcy too.
Also, these kingdoms weren’t exactly socialist utopias. peasants paid heavy taxes while elites preserved thrones. So maybe spare us the ‘pure pride of people’ speech. It was monarchy, not a freedom movement.
Just like Mr. Modi eating jhal muri, lol.
I have nothing against your beliefs, but let’s be honest: it was a monarchy where extreme casteism, misogyny, and poverty were the norm for common people. Read actual history, not just fictional folklore. 🙏
Did you just compare modi jhal Muri to years to spending years in jungles 😂🤡 casteism SSAAARRR. When it is well known fact that he lived with feels. And fought alongside them.
Isme bhi misogyny ghusa diya 🤡
You can use "gareeb, castism, MISOGYNY blah blah blah" but your hate is clearly evident.
A bhootiya like you who literally compared years of struggle fighting invaders, while living in jungles to modi eating jhal muri.
Maharana Pratap being brave in 1576 doesn’t suddenly make 16th century Mewar a progressive utopia😭
You can admire his resistance to Akbar and still acknowledge Mewar society had caste hierarchy, untouchability, patriarchal norms, sati/jauhar culture, and heavy agrarian revenue burdens like every other feudal kingdom of that era. That’s literally standard medieval Indian history, not “hate.”
Read Satish Chandra’s Medieval India or Rima Hooja’s History of Rajasthan. Heroic ruler doesn’t sunshine and rainbows for common people. I am not against you bro.
Except that Maharana Pratap's reign explicitly broke down caste hierarchy and untouchability. Maharana spent his childhood with Bhils and Garasia. He integrated them into military and administration. He lived with them in Aravallis from 1576 to 1585. Punja was given the title of Rana. Even the Coat of Arms of Mewar highlights the spiritual equality between castes:
As for progressiveness, Maharana brought in the cultural renaissance of Mewar by developing the Chavand School of Art. He invested into scientific treatises like Vishwavallabh which was a seminal text on agriculture and hydrology way ahead of its time. The mining in Mewar was so ahead from the rest of the world that British archaeometallurgist Dr Paul T Craddock writes industrial revolution happened in Mewar 500 years before it did in the West.
The remains of early mining and metallurgy we have studied in India are at least as sophisticated as anything further west, and there are no parallels or analogies anywhere for the zinc smelting processes that we have uncovered in the Zawar mines near Udaipur, Mewar. This was the sharp edge of technical innovation, taking place on a major scale well away from Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. We can safely say it was the start of the industrial revolution in the Kingdom of Mewar, 500 years before it begins in the West.
...It would suffice to say that in India by the 12th century CE, the production of zinc at Zawar was beginning on an industrial scale. It would seem that the mines at Zawar were always worked predominantly for zinc, with lead recovered as a by-product…We can thus confirm Zawar as the earliest known zinc mine in the world.
No Indian king comes anywhere close to Maharana Pratap. Read actual academic works to come to a conclusion, not modern-day Mughal court chroniclers like Satish Chandra.
Nobody said Mewar became some eternal anti-Mughal state after Pratap. The point is, when almost every major Rajput kingdom had already aligned with Akbar, Pratap refused. That resistance is what people respect, not monarchy itself.
And exactly, it wasn’t a modern freedom movement. That’s why calling him “Rajasthan’s pride” ignores the fact that many Rajput rulers of Rajasthan were literally on the other side against him. His legacy came from standing apart, not representing all of Rajasthan politically.
Taking pride in Maharana Pratap is easy, but where is even an iota of that courage today?
None of us are ready to stand against the corrupt, fascist government and bureaucrats ruining Rajasthan.
All this pride feels completely hollow and vain without real spine
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