Who is Greater, Maharana Pratap or Akbar

Let’s have a look at some differences between Maharana Pratap and Akbar

-Akbar was a Turk invader and Maharana Pratap was an Indian freedom fighter.

-Akbar was proud of his lineage of mass murderers like Babur, Timur and Genghis Khan. Maharana Pratap had a lineage of brave warriors like Bappa Rawal and Rana Sanga who saved India from foreign invasions.

-Akbar was known by the number of women in his harem. Maharana Pratap was known by the number of kilograms his spear weighed.

-Akbar destroyed Hindu temples. He desecrated the idol of Eklinga Ji and built a platform for offering Namaz on it. Maharana Pratap did not destroy a single mosque in his lifetime.

-Akbar used to celebrate victory over Kafir Hindus by raising pillars of cut heads. On 2nd September 1573, he raised a pillar of 2000 cut heads in Ahmadabad. Maharana Pratap never mutilated the enemy’s corpse.

-Akbar butchered 30,000 non-combatants including women and children in a single day on the conquest of Chittor fort thereby breaking all previous murder records set by his fathers and grandfathers. Maharana Pratap’s aggression against unarmed people is yet to be found in recorded history. He even used to kill soldiers only when they had swords in their hands.

-Akbar used to offer water to dying enemy soldiers and kings in shoes. Maharana Pratap hugged his enemy Shakti Singh when he apologized.

-Akbar threw a servant from the top of a tower just because latter mistakenly slept near former’s bed. Maharana Pratap used to eat together with Bheels ( a poor tribe in Rajasthan) and common people.

-Akbar was a drunkard and drug addict. Maharana Pratap never tasted drugs.

-Akbar made all small kings, soldiers and people bow before him. Maharana Pratap never made anybody bow before him. And he was the man who never bowed before Akbar.

-Akbar was a fanatic Islamist who changed the name of Prayagraj to Allahabad. He even renamed Maharana Pratap’s elephant Ram Prasad as Peer Prasad after capturing him in Haldighati. Maharana Pratap never changed someone’s religion be it a person or city or place.

Now I leave it to you to decide the greater one between Maharana Pratap and Akbar