Now, controversy dogs ‘Prithviraj’ over the great king’s legacy and clan

TIL Desk Bollywood/ The Gujjars in Rajasthan have threatened to stop the screening of Bollywood flick ‘Prithviraj’ starring Akshay Kumar if the movie continues using the term ‘Rajput’ for Prithviraj Chauhan. The community claimed that Prithviraj was from the Gurjar community and was not a Rajput.

However leaders from the Rajput community have strongly rejected their claim and said that Gurjars were initially gauchar, who then converted into Gujjar and then Gurjars. They basically come from Gujarat and hence got this name, claimed Shri Rajput Karni Sena national spokesperson Vijendra Singh Shaktawat. This is a place-related term and not a caste-related term, he added.

Gurjar leader Himmat Singh said, “#Prithviraj Movie is made on the basis of Prithviraj Raso written by Chand Bardai and the same was shown in the teaser of Prithviraj movie.. After studying the inscriptions available in history, researchers have believed that Chand Bardai wrote it around 400 years back after the reign of Prithviraj Chauhan. In the 16th century, the Raso epic was written which is fictional. The epic is written by Chand Bardai in Pringal language which is a mixture of Bajra and Rajasthani language.