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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 sorrow 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 that people could recognize him as a national hero. Not that Tulsidas may have been his contemporary, but whether this national poet of Hindi had even heard the name of the greatest national shurma of his time, there is no evidence of it, and after that the time of Ritikaal came, even in the time of Ritikaal, he was within the Hindus. The vision could not arise from which castes identify symbols of their national pride. Even then the glimpses of national valor displayed by Bhushan and Lal Kavi were only because Shivaji
And Chhatrasal was his contemporary and patron. Had the spirit of Hindu-nationalism instilled in him, there would be 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. Mahabharata of Sabal Singh Chauhan, Chandicaritra of Guru Gobind Singh, Jung Naam of Shri Murlidhar (on the war of Farrukhshiar and Jahandar Shah), Chhatra Prakash of Lal Kavi, Hammir Raso of Jodhraj poet of Alwar, Hammir Hatha of Gwal poet, Hammir Hatha of Chandrashekhar Bajpayee and

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 sorrow that the creation of Pratap-Sahitya in Hindi could not be done as it should have beenaffecting the literature. But, this awakening was the awakening of the body, which ended with the sword. That storm is not in the mind of Hindus yet. n fact, the rebellion that was going on in northern and southern India against Aurangzeb was an indicator of some rebellious feeling within the Hindus and it was also affecting the literature. But, this awakening was the awakening of the body, which ended with the sword. That storm is not in the mind of Hindus yet.1431