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Yeah a few statues here and there does no harm, as long as it does not get into Mayawati proportions.
So the RSS are going to put up the statute of every single two bit actor who fought the Mughals?
Not sure this is the pure message to carry across for an inclusive cosmopolitan India.
Akbar had an empire, that was probably the most powerful 'Canon and Muskets power' in the world at his time, and one of the richest that covered Afghanistan to Bengal. His administration was so efficient, that the Chinese sent delegations to COPY his system into Imperial China. He married Hindu Princesses, and tried to create his own religion. In his later life he may have become a vegetarian...................AND who is this Pratab compared to all this?
Another Great Ruler of India is Ashoka, as he united ALL of India, including Afghanistan and bits of Central Asia. Like Akbar the Great he too had a powerful army of 600,000 and a navy. Like Akbar the Great he too had a very efficient administration much admired by the Chinese......you can't have a great effective empire without efficient administration and rules.
SMALL men with small ideas and small circles don't make GREAT nations with BIG creative forward thinking ideas, whilst peering hopelessly into the past.
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Rajnath says if Akbar is ‘great’, so is Rana Pratap, wants 'history corrected'
"I have no objections to historians writing Akbar The Great. But why
not Pratap The Great? The valour and sacrifice that the Maharana
demonstrated in the Mewar region was equally impressive and he should be
accorded more respect and dignity," he said while unveiling a statue of
Pratap at the Collectorate campus in Rajasthan's Pratapgarh district on
Sunday.
"I personally consider Maharana Pratap as great," he
said eulogizing the Mewar king who was defeated by Akbar in the historic
Battle of Haldighati. "History should be presented in correct light.
Pratap must be introduced as great for the next generations.
He pointed out that Pratap's patriotism and the sacrifices he made
should be highlighted and this would work as inspiration for the
country.
"The guerrilla warfare that the Maharana had waged
against the Mughals became an inspiration for freedom fighters like
Chandrashekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh and even Chhatrapati Shivaji and Banda
Bairagi," he said. Singh said the Maharana was not king of a particular
caste or community but fought for his country and people from all walks
supported him.
Union home minister Rajnath Singh in Rajasthan's Pratapgarh, where he inaugurated the statue of Maharana Pratap. (TOI photo)
"Virtues of Maharana Pratap have become more relevant in today's
world," he said. He further said that there are several accounts in
Indian history that should be modified and corrected. "I congratulate
the Rajasthan government for introducing a chapter on Maharana Pratap
and I assure that I will take up with the HRD ministry to introduce a
similar chapter in CBSE and ICSC syllabus too," Singh said.
Singh referred to Nobel laureate VS Naipaul's book 'India: A Wounded
Civilisation' and said, "Naipaul has observed that he found India the
only country in the world where history written by foreign historians is
taught in textbooks. Indian historians should heed to Naipaul and take
measures in right earnest."
(Shabash.....شاباش India is the ONLY GREAT power where the government speaks a foreign language.
India is the only GREAT power which still takes foreign beggar money.
India is the only GREAT power which still celebrates its slavery under an alien power from the other side of the world.
India is the only GREAT power which can't makes its own basic weapons.
The GREAT Hindu scriptures don't have an answer for this)
Singh assured that the Centre would encourage celebration of Pratap's forthcoming475th birth anniversary in a big way.
