Death anniversary of Maharana Pratap: Maharana Pratap is undoubtedly one of the most famous heroic warriors of the country. Crowned as the ruler of Mewar in 1572, the Rajput king breathed his last on January 19, 1587. While writers and poets have written many poems and stories of his courage, one in particular is the famous battle of Haldighati, which he fought. Against the then Mughal emperor Akbar. Despite being outnumbered, the Mewar army is said to have given a tough fight to the Mughals.
Born on May 9, 1540 in Kumbhalgarh, Rajasthan, he was taught fighting skills by his mother Maharani Jaywanta Bai Songara of Jalore. The Battle of Haldighati, fought on 18 June 1576, is considered as destructive as the war of Mahabharata. The battle site was a narrow mountain pass in the Haldighati near Gogunda, a small village located near Udaipur in present-day Rajasthan.
On this day, Pratap’s cavalry of 3,000 and 400 Bhil archers stood against Akbar’s cavalry of 85,000, led by Man Singh I of Amber. Although the Mughals won the battle after a tough fight from the cavalry and archers who supported the Rana of Mewar, they were never able to capture the Rajput ruler who fled.
A wounded Maharana survived the battle on the back of his famous horse Chetak, who died of battle wounds after helping him miraculously escape from the Battle of Haldighati. The courage of a horse has been immortalized in Shyam Narayan Pandey’s poem Chetak Ki Veerta.
Maharana is said to have fought with a spear weighing 81 kg and armor weighing 72 kg on his chest. The total weight of his spear, armor, shield and two swords was 208 kg.
Why was the battle fought?
The Mughal Empire’s siege of Chittorgarh against the state of Mewar began in 1567. In 1568 it lost the fertile eastern belt of Mewar to the Mughals, while the rest of the forested and hilly kingdom was still under the control of the Maharana. Akbar wanted to secure a stable route through Mewar to the prosperous ports of Gujarat. When the Rana refused to subjugate Akbar like many other Rajput states, war became inevitable.
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