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Pratap Charitra: Maharana Pratap embodies that spirit of valor under which the castes rebel against the authority of the unjust and man refuses to bow down before the oppressors. But, it is a matter of sadness that the creation of Pratap-Sahitya in Hindi could not be done as it should have been. The reason, perhaps, was that when Maharana Pratap emerged, there was not enough vitality in the country to recognize him as a national hero, although Tulsidas may have been his contemporary.Even then the glimpses of national valor displayed by Bhushan and Lal Kavi were only because Shivaji and Chhatrasal were their contemporaries and patrons. If the feeling of Hindu-nationalism had instilled in him, there was no reason why his attention would not have turned towards Pratap’s bright character.
It is not even a thing that heroic poems were not written in Ritikaal. The Mahabharata of Sabal Singh Chauhan, the Chandicaritra of Guru Gobind Singh, the battle name of Shri Murlidhar (Farrukhshiar)
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