Posted:
Like Shabaz Khan said its 80% fiction and 20% truth.
Lets look at what was truth
Akbar was an outside invader-yes they were considered outsider although after Jehangir they became indians as he was born in india to an indian mother
Akbar was after princess phool - no, not possible. Akbar was a casanova but not at this young age. He was a casanova from age of 21-30 may be where he married too many woman. But majority of these marriages were political. He wanted loyalty of the kings so best way was to marry their daughters/sisters. Though we cannot say that he lusted after all those princesses he married it was politics majority times. But definetly Phool was never his interest because he married her sister Rukmavati who was one of his favourite wives and given lots of powers to build gardens, palaces etc
Akbar and Pratap met as kids- completely wrong
Pratap defeated Akbar in war-
Chittor war
No because they never met in any war field. When Akbar was 25 years and Pratap 27 years in 1567 Akbar attacked Chittorgarh fort. But Udai Singh was already told in advance by Shakti Singh who worked in Akbar's durbar and he left the fort mindway with his entire family to Aravalli hills in between the seige. Later on Akbar defeated them suffered huge loss of mughal soldiers ordered killing of 30,000 civilans inside fort
Haldighatti war
Akbar had an epilytic attack some months before the Haldighatti attack. Hence Man Singh and Salim who was 7 years old was sent to that battle. So Akbar never met Pratap here too.
After Haldighatti whatever war occured usually Salim or later on his other two sons(when Salim was in bhagawat) to face Pratap/Amar Singh. So historically Akbar and Pratap never met in battle field. Not because both were scared to face each other but circumstances only.
Akbar openly quoted in his court that no oneis more patriot to hindustan in india than pratap
Pratap also told he had no personal grudge on Akbar except that he wanted to rule independently
Like in previous post i had told Akbar, Pratap and Mahmood Shah were all married to Rao Maldeo daughters namely Rukmavati Lal baisa, Phool Kunwar and Lal Baiji respectively.
Akbar's fight was to expand his kingdom and free trade routes in central asia that ran through aravalli hills. He also had a personal grudge may be that Humayun defetaed Bahadur Shah of Gujarat and returned kingdom to Vikramaditya/Udai Singh but they considered him as purposely coming late to help them. But in history Humayun lost a lot because of helping chittorgarh his nobels, brothers all considered him as traitor for helping hindus and they joined with Sher Shah suri defetaed him and he had to run pillar to post 15 years to save his life and his daugghter kidnapped and killed by Sher shah suri etc. I already wrote a post on that long back.So Akbar definetly had personal grudge that he made almost 23 wars on Mewar. They won majority but could never capture/kill Pratap/Amar Singh ever. It is said on death bed Akbar asked Salim to defeat Mewar.
Maharana also fought for freedom to remain king and for personal reason. Babur had defeated Rana Sangha and off course Rani Karnavati Jauhar. But i think whatever reason for delay from Humayun atleast he helped Vikramaditya become king again. He saved decimation of Chittor. Because if Humayun had not come and defetaed Bahadur Shah(Humayu killed him pursuing him till Gujarat) Pratap could not be king. The Mewar Suryavanshi family rule would have come to an end most probably because all Rajputs would never help Mewar. So atleast for that they should be thankful and not consider Humayun as having caused Karnavati's death. What Humayun did was unprecedented in those times a mughal emperor fighting muslim ruler to help an hindu kingdom/king. And that too his father Babar and Karnavati's husband Rana Sangha fought wars still because she sent a letter of help he left war in deccan and came to Chittor to help early or late does not matter. Humayun could have taken that kingdom himself as he defetaed Bahadur Shah. Any other king even Rajputh kings would have kept Mewar for themselves not given it to next heir that too in 15th century. So humayun was not all that bad when you read real history. And imagine what all pressure he must have faced to not help Mewar still disregarding his own future he helped. This is what Akabr must also have felt because his father his family lost a lot in life in return for the help and still consider one who helped as traitor and blame on him.
So this enemity is more a personal one atleast from Akabr's side if not Pratap's
This show has made mockery of these facts in history and instead making an emperor an a king fight after a princess. Is this some Hellen of Troy??? or Maharana Pratap????
Current Affairs
Real Estate
