social reformer
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.
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- 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