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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Sharma posited that Akbar punished the two trusted generals, and this was another proof that the Mughals had lost the Battle of Haldighati.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. Sharma went on to argue that back then, only the king of a province was allowed to distribute tracts of land and so, this was proof that Maharana Pratap was the victor of the Battle of Haldighati.ĭr Sharma further argued that following the Battle of Haldighati, two Mughal generals, Man Singh and Asif Khan, were forbidden from entering Emperor Akbar's darbar (court). Soon after, Dr Chandrashekhar Sharma, a professor at Udaipur's government Meera Kanya Mahavidyalaya, published a finding arguing that the Rajput and conclusively won the Battle of Haldighati.ĭr Sharma based his findings on land records from the 16th century saying for a year after the Jbattle, Maharana Pratap distributed land in villages near Haldighati by handing out land rights inscribed on copper plates that has the signature of the diwan of Eklingnath. The education minister had then questioned the need to have such a chapter in schools' history books, asking why Akbar was great. Notably, the Rajasthan's Bharatiya Janata Party government, when it came into power, had ordered a chapter titled 'Akbar Mahan' (Akbar the Great) removed from syllabus. Akbar kept attacking Maharana Pratap because each time he would lose to the latter, Devnani added. The education minister went on to question why Mughal emperor Akbar would launch six consecutive attacks on Maharana Pratap's army after the Battle of Haldighati if he was the victor of the original fight. With this change in the Class X history books, the aberration has now been fixed, Devnani said.
Maharana Pratap's army fought a heroic battle and forced Akbar's army to retreat from the battlefield, history books in Rajasthan schools will now teach.Ĭonfirming the change in history books, Rajasthan Minister of State for primary and secondary education Vasudev Devnani said that the history being taught in the state's schools so far was incorrect. However, the rewritten history now says that that the battle did not end in a truce and that Maharana Pratap, along with his army, valiantly fought to protect his motherland Mewar. Until now, students in Rajasthan learnt that the Battle of Haldighati, which took place on June 18, 1576, was inconclusive.
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