02-23-2008, 10:24 AM
ramana, (318-)
it is pity that those who have come forward to oppose the movie are 'rajput' orgs doing it from the standpoint of rajput-pride rather than anything larger. But are they ready to deny the historical fact that for whatever pressure their ancestors did send the sisters and daughters into the harems of musalmans? How does it matter whether the name of the first sacrifical hindu girl at the harem of Akbar was Jodha or not?
Men, then too warriors, are dharma-bound to protect women, elderly, children and meek from the invading tyrants. What will we say to those who pushed their own daughters, under whatever pressure, into the lusting mouths of the invader in order to protect their tiny fiefdoms?
What Rajput? Who Kshatriya? Merely by growing moustaches and watching Chamelibai's mujara noone becomes Kshatriya. These pseudo-kshatriyas have sold our home first and now they want the respect due to them?
But the Rajput-Pride - an erronous perspective for protest aside, Jodha Akbar (JA)still needs to be analyzed by those who suffer no such false pride.
JA has shown the romance of a Hindu princess who falls in love with Mugal Tyrant with whom she was politically bartered for peace, and this alone will suffice to negate and obliterate one of the darkest chapter of the Indian Medieval history. No Rajput or Hindu pricess would ever willfully accept a musalman. Not in history.
The movie is simly just another step of the same process of Mugal-period-glorification that had begun in 20th century first by Leftists. Even British did not do this. First left-wing historian who began the process was Mr. Manavendra Nath Roy, who began glorifying all Islami invaders. Motivations are well known by now...and so are the later developments in it. JA is simply the latest artifact of the same school, for the consumption of the ignorant masses, particularly the ultra-liberal youth of today, and nothing else.
Such artifact is a unique example of how liberal India's generations have become - and how detached from their historical agony. Imagine a movie being made in China, by a chinese, glorifying the love story of a chinese princess with a Japanese governer! Or likewise elsewhere in world! But we are truely enlightened peoples - where we hold our invaders in aweful reverence!
Those who can sympathatically make such a movie, and those who can enjoy it, are the same people who knowingly or unknowingly are in support of the ongoing process to erase the every historical trace of the national-emotional entity called Bharat.
it is pity that those who have come forward to oppose the movie are 'rajput' orgs doing it from the standpoint of rajput-pride rather than anything larger. But are they ready to deny the historical fact that for whatever pressure their ancestors did send the sisters and daughters into the harems of musalmans? How does it matter whether the name of the first sacrifical hindu girl at the harem of Akbar was Jodha or not?
Men, then too warriors, are dharma-bound to protect women, elderly, children and meek from the invading tyrants. What will we say to those who pushed their own daughters, under whatever pressure, into the lusting mouths of the invader in order to protect their tiny fiefdoms?
What Rajput? Who Kshatriya? Merely by growing moustaches and watching Chamelibai's mujara noone becomes Kshatriya. These pseudo-kshatriyas have sold our home first and now they want the respect due to them?
But the Rajput-Pride - an erronous perspective for protest aside, Jodha Akbar (JA)still needs to be analyzed by those who suffer no such false pride.
JA has shown the romance of a Hindu princess who falls in love with Mugal Tyrant with whom she was politically bartered for peace, and this alone will suffice to negate and obliterate one of the darkest chapter of the Indian Medieval history. No Rajput or Hindu pricess would ever willfully accept a musalman. Not in history.
The movie is simly just another step of the same process of Mugal-period-glorification that had begun in 20th century first by Leftists. Even British did not do this. First left-wing historian who began the process was Mr. Manavendra Nath Roy, who began glorifying all Islami invaders. Motivations are well known by now...and so are the later developments in it. JA is simply the latest artifact of the same school, for the consumption of the ignorant masses, particularly the ultra-liberal youth of today, and nothing else.
Such artifact is a unique example of how liberal India's generations have become - and how detached from their historical agony. Imagine a movie being made in China, by a chinese, glorifying the love story of a chinese princess with a Japanese governer! Or likewise elsewhere in world! But we are truely enlightened peoples - where we hold our invaders in aweful reverence!
Those who can sympathatically make such a movie, and those who can enjoy it, are the same people who knowingly or unknowingly are in support of the ongoing process to erase the every historical trace of the national-emotional entity called Bharat.