Ajay Devgn’s Chauhaan faces Kshatriya Parishad ire over ‘weaponisation of Rajput history’

Days after the makers officially announced director Neeraj Yadav’s Ajay Devgn-starrer Chauhaan with an action-packed teaser, the movie has run into a new controversy with the Kshatriya Parishad coming down heavily on the alleged “weaponisation of Rajput history and appropriation of Rajput identities”. The organisation has described that such attempts are for “electoral or ideological purposes.”

Strongly condemning the makers’ attempts to “appropriate” the Chauhan clan name for “contemporary communal politics,” the Kshatriya Parishad pointed out, “Chauhans are a historic Rajput (Kshatriya) lineage whose legacy belongs to history, not to partisan campaigns or manufactured media controversies.”

Kshatriya Parishad slams Chauhaan’s teaser

In a statement shared on social media, the organisation called it “deeply unfortunate” that the Rajput identity was yet again “being dragged into a political narrative” which, the Parishad pointed out, “Rajputs neither initiated nor sought.” The organisation added, “At a time when Rajput voices remain underrepresented in mainstream media and public discourse, invoking a Rajput clan name merely to provoke outrage, inflame caste and communal sentiments, or generate political spectacle is both irresponsible and disrespectful.”

Maintaining that such representations highlight an “ignorance of Indian history,” the organisation noted that the Indian subcontinent’s past “cannot be reduced to simplistic communal binaries.” The Kshatriya Parishad further listed examples of occasions when the Afghans and Rajputs fought alongside one another.