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Maharana Pratap

Maharana Pratap Singh

Also known as: महाराणा प्रताप, महाराणा प्रताप सिंह

How Maharana Pratap is discussed in this archive

Referenced in 1 other work , including समस्याएँ भारत की .

In समस्याएँ भारत की : Maharana Pratap is named alongside Shivaji as part of the moral-historical tradition of armed resistance that Joshi appropriates from urban nationalist memory to legitimise farmer self-assertion as a continuation of the freedom struggle.

Mentioned in (4)

Primary works (4)

  • Shetkari Sanghatak · 1992
  • समस्याएँ भारत की · 1988
    • "the concept of freedom that animated anti-colonial struggles — associated with figures such as Maharana Pratap and Shivaji — was appropriated by urban nationalists after 1947 and turned into a tool of continued rural subjugation" · Essay 3 historicises freedom by claiming Pratap and Shivaji as the genealogy of resistance the urban elite seized after Independence
    • "Joshi invokes the moral-historical tradition of armed resistance (Maharana Pratap, Shivaji) to argue that farmer self-assertion is not merely an economic demand but a legitimate continuation of freedom struggle" · the key-points reprise re-anchors Pratap inside Joshi's farmer-as-freedom-fighter argument
  • Freedom First · 1957
  • Warnings of History · n.d.