After the death of Udai Singh in 1572, Rani Dheer Bai wanted her son Jagmal to succeed him but senior courtiers preferred Pratap, as the eldest son, to be their king. He belonged to the Royal Family of Mewar. He was married to Ajabde Punwar of Bijolia and he had married 10 other women and was survived by 17 sons and 5 daughters including Amar Singh I. Pratap also had 2 stepsisters: Chand Kanwar and Man Kanwar. His younger brothers were Shakti Singh, Vikram Singh and Jagmal Singh. Today also in royal insignia of Mewar a Bhil soldier and a Rajput worrier can be seen together, was as a sense of gratitude towards the Bhil tribes.Maharana Pratap was born in Hindu Rajput family to Udai Singh II of Mewar and Jaiwanta Bai. Even at the time of his death Pratap lived in a hut outside his palace and has never slept of a bed he rather sleep on rough floor. He made several Gurrilla attacks on Mughal army while he was hiding in the forests of Aravali with the help of Bhil tribe of Bhilwara district in today’s part of Rajasthan.Īt age of 57 Pratap died because of his injuries which happened during hunting at chawand and made his eldest son Amar Singh next ruler of Mewar. His brother Shakti Singh who was fighting war from Akbar’s side followed him and at sudden change of his heart given his own horse to Pratap and helped him to flee from there.Īfter the battle of Haldighati, Pratap organised another attack at Dewar, in which army of Mewar was victorious and Pratap was able to claim most of his Mewar back from Akbar except Chittor. He was still being followed by some of the Mughal soldiers and soon a deep cliff came which was very tough for any one to jump and cross but to save his master Chetak jumped from the cliff to other side and safely transferred his master from one side to another but was self killed in this act. Pratap generals convinced him to flee from the battle field so that he can fight another day.Īfter leaving the battle field Chetak which was trusted horse of Pratap but was wounded and exhausted and was able to take his mastel only 2 miles from the battle field.
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In the begining of battle Mughal Army was surprised by the sheer bravery of making full frontal attack by Rajput soldiers but soon Artillery and numerical superiority of Akbar’s army began to tell, there was huge number of losses on rajput side.
His army contain 25,000 soldiers consisting of Afgans, Bhils, and Mewari Soldiers but was vastly outnumbered in front of Akbars army of 200,000 soldiers led by Raja Man Singh of Amber.
Then came the battle of Haldighati on jin which the armies of Pratap and Akbar met at village of Haldighati near the town of Golconda, in which the Pratap army of outnumbered by the Akbar’s army. Akbar send total six diplomatic missions to Pratap but none was able to make Pratap surrender in front of any foreign invader, after some time man of Pratap’s nobels and many of his brothers (Shakti Singh and Sagar Singh) moved towards side of Akbar. But on the day of ceremony Jagmal was physically moved out of the palace by the trusted nobels and Pratap Singh was declared as the next ruler of Mewar and he took oath that until he recapture whole of his land back from Mughals he wil not live in Palace, will not eat his food in gold or silver dish and won’t sleep on confortable bed. During the last time of Udai Singh, he wanted to make Jagmal Singh as next ruler of Mewar who was Pratap’s younger brother and was the son of Rana’s favourite wife DheerBai. In 1586 during reign of Rana Udai Singh II, Maharana Pratap’s father, Chitoor was captured by third Mughal Emperor Akbar and third Jauhar took place at Chitoor, but Rana Udai Singh II along with hai family left the fort and founded the city of Udaipur named in the name of Rana Udai Singh II. He was married of Maharani Ajabde Phunwar at age of 17, he was having total 11 wives, 17 sons and 5 daughters out of which Amar Singh was eldest son of Maharani Ajabde and Pratap, and became the next ruler of Mewar after Pratap Singh. His real name was Pratap Singh but later due to his works and deeds he was given the title of Maharana. He was born on may 9,1540 at Kumbhalgarh and was the eldest son of Rana of Mewar Udai Singh II. This is the article about my personal favourite ancient war hero MEWAR Ratna Maharana Pratap. Like his ancestors he fought for his freedom for whole of his life and called the title of MAHARANA of MEWAR. It’s not an article about a any warrior of our past but it’s about the first freedom fighter of India, who never bowed his head in front of any of his enemies whether it’s Mughals, Turks or Afgans.
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