VEDA’S JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (JOELL) Vol.6 Issue 1 An International Peer Reviewed (Refereed) Journal 2019 Impact Factor (SJIF) 4.092 http://www.joell.in RESEARCH ARTICLE FOLK-LORE OF VEER RASA IN CONTEXT OF MAHARANA PRATAP’S VALOUR Dr. Jayshree Singh (Associate Professor, Department of English, F.S.S.H., Bhupal Nobles’ University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.) e-mail: [email protected] doi: https://doi.org/10.33329/joell.61.48 ABSTRACT Folklores are narrative songs, sung to elaborate the noble deeds of legendry heroes that mostly raise them to the position of local deities or they are commemorated as the eternal and immortal beings. Sometimes a certain purpose resonates in folklores on festive occasions in local traditions and customs. Even during rites and rituals folklores play significantly important role to correspond the sense of social interaction and consciousness which is carried forward from one generation to another, so the thoughts of folk are elicited in varied forms in the Indian culture. The study will reflect on the semiotic properties that present discourse analysis on the idea to protect the nation’s sovereignty or region’s integrity. The study will focus on the relevance that how warriors’ brave deeds in history till date have been a source of inspiration for young Indians. It will examine the hardcore level of inherent instinctual loyalty of Freedom-Fighters towards their motherland, which is significant to protect nation’s totality and integrity with one’s martyrdom spirit. The aim is to interpret that patriotic drive which has been currently found missing in the present countrymen of India. Keywords: Narrative Folklores, Festive Occasions, Social Interaction, Brave Deeds, Patriotic Drive. Author(s) retain the copyright of this article Copyright © 2019 VEDA Publications Author(s) agree that this article remains permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License . 48 Dr. Jayshree Singh VEDA’S JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (JOELL) Vol.6 Issue 1 An International Peer Reviewed (Refereed) Journal 2019 Impact Factor (SJIF) 4.092 http://www.joell.in INTRODUCTION culling together the characteristics of In the state of Rajasthan, specifically in different dialects, and at a later stage the Mewar, the folklores express their moral, spiritual, language becomes the element that keeps emotional and physical sensitivities, and such trend the dialect bound up. And, then the dialect of their folklore’ character has inspired the world gets nourished and developed by with its essence; such factual experience has to be incorporating the structure of language. examined through the study of popular folk songs. In After the prevalence of the fixed, uniform the Mewar region of Rajasthan, folklores if and allied styles of singing, the tunes and categorised, then there will be significant segmented their groups employed in such folk styles of units which illustrate the folks’ lifestyle, cultural singing are analysed, and the types of tunes, rituals/rites, social customs and religious traditions. their nature and their context utilisation are The folklores concerning ‘Veer Rasa’ represent inferred, and on the basis of them the formidable political foreground, refusal to comply structure of the new melody is grasped. At and the ‘Will to Power’ environment. The criteria of the later stage, melodies themselves bind up the prevalence of the particular, popular folklore of such a style of singing and generate newer the times seem to be couched with the knowledge and fresh folk styles of singing” (21). about the subject to power and a potential for self- The above mentioned author explains that at the image as superior with unconscious positivity and elementary level indeed the sound, language shapes rationality. Out of this vast arena of Mewar folklores, the narrative, which is based on an unanimous idea attempt will be made to explore the warriors’ valour regarding an individual in a society, and this and gallantry; patriotism and nationalism, besides subsequently is carried to a secondary level to state their birth being symbolically referred to sacrifice and reflections between the cause and effect relationship martyrdom. “between the dialect, the language, the style of The criteria of the prevalence of the singing, the melody, the oral tradition and the particular, popular folklore of the times seem to be written tradition considered to be the classical one or couched with the knowledge about the subject to the tradition of the folk literature and individual power and a potential for self-image as superior with literature is complicated” (Ibid., 21) unconscious positivity and rationality. Sometimes, a Before probing more into the folklores certain purpose resonates in folklores on festive written on Maharana Pratap, the illustrious scion of occasions in local traditions and customs. Folklores Mewar, it is apt to understand the process of correspond to the sense of social interaction and imitation that profuse with unpremeditated consciousness which is carried forward from one spontaneity folksongs, especially that emanate spark generation to another, so the thoughts of folk are of inspiration, power, light, courage and elicited in varied forms in the Indian culture. The determination among the folk people, which writer YasuNagnik in the chapter “Myths and generations after generation become the living Mythology” describes the origin of folklores, which narrative sources of expression, myths, legends and not only manifests the character of legendary figure, ecstatic singing. This has been the long process of but also the narrative that popularly influences evolution which sometime between the 1st century mentality, culture, tradition, dialect and society of a BCE and the 3rd century CE the Indian particular geographical area. He writes: sage Bharatmunihad propounded with the concept of “In this way, in the something that gets ‘Rasa’. According to this theoretical concept, the added, something may come from the myth emotions of the characters while enactment of and something may be the creation of the drama; folk-singers or followers while performing; popular psychology of the later period. This spectatorswhile watching or purging their sentiments process is like that of a dialect, a language or or readers while reading or critics while interpreting a style of singing and a melody. The classical and the writer while creating in literary composition form of a language is determined only by 49 Dr. Jayshree Singh VEDA’S JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (JOELL) Vol.6 Issue 1 An International Peer Reviewed (Refereed) Journal 2019 Impact Factor (SJIF) 4.092 http://www.joell.in encapsulate the central element of aesthetics and • To reflect on the semiotic properties that transcendentalized experience. present discourse analysis on the idea to Bharatmuni’s Natyasastra, is a detailed protect the nation’s sovereignty or region’s treatise and handbook on dramatic art, it is the integrity. oldest extant work on Indian Poetics and deals with • To focus on the relevance that how their all aspects of dramaturgy of the classical Sanskrit brave deeds in history and till date a source theatre.The greatest merit of ‘Rasa’ (emotion of inspiration for young Indians. evoked) system is that it has erected its magnificent • To examine how their loyalty interfaces with edifice on the solid foundation of the commonality of nation’s totality in the present situation of human feelings and emotions (Bhatia 10-12).Cassius the country India. Longinus’s On the Sublime (ΠερìὝψουςPerìHýpsous) About Glorious Maharana Pratap of the Indian is a Roman- era Greek work of literary criticism dated Princely State of Mewar: to the 1st century AD. According to him, ssublimity, a In the Medieval History of India, Maharana philosophical term, can be better defined as “the Pratap the great and glorious, omnivorous scion and echo of a great soul” (Adelaide, 2014). Great the Sun of the Mewar from times immemorial has thoughts spring from great souls. The true sublimity been remembered for his being invincible to his fills the reader with ineffable joy. It appeals not paragon, the Mughal Emperor Akbar. The reason of through reason but through imagination, not once or his being dauntless in face of his enemies’ invasion twice but every time it is heard or read. According to on his territory Mewar was his unbreakable spirit of him, sublimity element in terms of effective writing freedom. Maharana Pratap was the torchbearer for means “moral excellence and power of forming great the contemporary Indian ruling states both regionally conceptions”. Longinus sets out five sources of and across India. By and large his persevered sublimity: "great thoughts, strong emotions, certain inherent drive of being a ruler of sovereign state left figures of thought and speech, noble diction, and an indelible influence on the other provincial dignified word arrangement" (Brody: 1958). dynasties to carry out freedom struggle for the According to Dimock, Indian Poetics may be integration of society and their ruling states. His appropriated for Indian Literature. He believes inspiration for integration and independence was a ‘Sanskrit critics have taxonomic approach to the contrary quintessential phenomenon to the psychology of emotions. The ‘taxonomic’ involves to contemporary existing state of affairs of the present more from the ‘personal’ to ‘transpersonal’. There is ruling kings of Indian subcontinent, who surrendered a highly particular level. It is the level of interpersonal their sovereignty with the fear of being diminished aesthetic delight. The great English literary writer K.R. and destroyed. Hence Maharana Pratap ‘s valor and Shrinivas Iyengar (an English Literary Critic) says perseverance till date is synonymous to his fearless about the comparative literature and heritage of spirit that persistently stood against subjugation. He India in these words: “An exhibition and enjoyment not only inspired people of Rajputana but showed that is more like spiritual realization is very much the path to the future generation of India for present in Indian Literature”.