Important Facts About Maharana Pratap

Maharana Pratap was another Rajput king of Mewar regin present in Rajasthan. Maharana Pratap was the Son of Udai Singh II of Mewar and his mother maharani Jaiwanta bai. Mahrana Pratap is very famous and respected figure in Rajasthan and to honor him every year is birth anniversary is celebrated very happily.

Maharana Pratap was born on 1540 AD and he Belongs to Sisodia Clan Of Rajput. When in 1568 Chittorgarh fort was conquered by Akbar and to save himself and family from Mughals Udai singh retires to Aravali Hill and founded another city Udaypur.

Accession To Throne

Maharana Pratap was succeeded to throne against the wish of his father he was the 1st choice of minister as he was strong and patriotic towards his people so he was crowned the king and as expected he never let down the hope of people and tried to do whatever he could do to make it happen.

Battle of Haldighati

battle of haldighati was the 1st time when Mughals came face to face with Maharana pratap at haldighati in 1576 AD. The Maharana pratap was almost half in numbers cmpared to Mughals. Man Singh was leading from Mughal Side. The war lasted for almost four hours resulted in the retreat of Rajput army. Mahrana pratap was made to leave the battlefield in order to keep this battle going on for long time.

Maharana prataps blue color Horse Chetak Also got badly hurt while he put his hooves on Mansingh's Elephant Trunk to make it easy to Aim for Mansingh but instead his mahout got killed.

Chetak Died after safely escorting Maharana Pratap away from the battle field by jumping over 21 feet wide river. After the death of Chetak Maharana pratap erected a monument to honor his Loyal Horse.

Battle of haldighati was a blow for rajput as it did not result in Seizing their territory and for Mughals they failed to capture Maharana pratap. So war resulted in draw.

Post Haldighati War

after the battle of halsighati mansingh seized Gokunda from maharana pratap which was later regained by Maharana Pratap. The Akbar himself led a campaign against him and conquered Gokunda and udaipur. It forced Pratap to retire deep in the aravalis. And by that time almost all Rajputs had entered in alliance with Mughals. this made pratap very Isolated.

Its been said that Pratap had initially thought of entering in alliance with Akbar but the atrocities committed by Akbar in Chittorgarh forced him ti gave up that Idea. And he took the oath to avenge this atrocities and he swore to sleep on earth till he gets all forts back from Mughals and till his death he recovered all except Chittor from Mughals.

Akbar did send lots of campaigns to kill Maharan pratap which resulted in the loss of Soldiers and money. all of the soldiers were killed by Prataps which were sent to kill him. It was a great frustration for Akbar.

Ethics of Maharana pratap

I have always a Great admirer of this thing that Rajput Kings may not have acquired big regions like others did. But when it comes to perform duty towards his people his friends and to respect women. You will always find that Raput warriors were ahead in that.

There is a saying that A Rajput can lay down his life but can't back from his words. His words were the ultimate command for him there was nothing which could stop him for obeying his words.

Maharana Pratap was full of valor patriotism and ethics. Once Kabir khan the Foster brother advanced towards Pratap on the orders of Akbar, And his women crew fell in the hands of rajput warriors.

The women were taken to Pratap and when pratap learned about this he asked Rajputs to take them back respectfully and safely to their camp. When kabir Khan heard about this he gave of his idea of fighting against such noble king.

So Pratap did not won territories but the heart of enemy as well. where he could have taken the advantage by capuring women but he chose to stick to his ethics and considered it against the dharma. So in such situation where he had no money to buy weapons and to feed his family and army he chose to walk along side dharma. what example could be of ethics in the history other than this Rajput warrior.

He showed great respect towards others women and did not let any other to dishonor them where it was tradition to dishonor the enemy women back then. But he did not do such heinous act. Maharana pratap has occupied a very high place along side Prithviraj chauhan who is the other example of courage valor in Rajput history. These two warrior are the most celebrated warriors in North India and lots of statues monuments Bus station etc has been named after these two brave rajput warriors.

Death Of Mahrana Pratap

Maharana pratap died of injuries he received whil hunting in the jungle and his son Amar Singh was succeeded to throne. Amar singh has waged numerous war against mughals but later he submitted to mughals thus the era of rajput strrugle come to an end with this great rajput's death.