MAHARANAS: A THOUSAND YEAR WAR FOR DHARMA

"The East bow'd low before the blast In patient deep disdain, She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again..."Mathew Arnold, a British poet, wrote these lines about the Hindus of Bharat. This is the crux of the core narrative embedded in the consciousness of this besieged nation, for the past 300 years. This is especially ingrained in our academic and literary discourse during the past seven decades of unopposed Leftist-Christlamic onslaught on our history. The crux being that Hindus are a meek race, indulging only in commercial or spiritual pursuits, and are no match for the muscular Islamic invaders who had been ravaging the subcontinent unceasingly. Then, a couple of years ago, while meandering on Twitter, 1 chanced upon a tweet by Sanjay Dixit (former bureaucrat, author and thinker) mentioning the Battle of Dewair, where Maharana Pratap Singh of Mewar conclusively defeated Akbar's army in September, CE 1583. Initially, out of my intellectual arrogance and sloth, I brushed it aside as an exaggerated fantasy of right-wing Hindus to idolise Pratap. I then contacted my friend, Shatrunjay Singh of Devgadh, who introduced me to a very pious soul, Shri Narayan Upadhyaya of Devgadh. Narayan-sa took me to Dewair and the areas around it to point out the physical evidence of the battle that took place in Dewair on Vijayadashami Day of CE 1583.