MAHARANA OF HALLOWED MEMORY

MAHARANA OF HALLOWED MEMORY 

Maharana Pratap the Great -- the one Hindu [Rajput] king who never submitted to the Islamic invaders amidst a host of capitulating Rajput rulers who became vassals and went on to serve the Mughals, help expand their domain and strengthen their hold on India. These rulers, led by Raja Man Singh of Amer, who compromised, fought against Maharana Pratap Singh in the famous Battle of Haldighati in 1576, defeating him in a close encounter eventually. To fight another day, Maharana Pratap fled the field on horseback, being carried to safety by his faithful companion, his injured horse Chetak, which in the process finally succumbed to heart attack and died.

The Maharana thereafter led an arduous ascetic life and carried on the struggle to recover all of his lost territory but his capital city of Mewar. He could never recover it in his lifetime but by his life of renunciation and unrelenting struggle against Akbar, his undying steely resolve to free his motherland from alien occupation, by his character attributes of high courage, moral excellence and extreme renunciation in exile, subsisting on roots and forest produce, sleeping on bare bed till he had recovered some portion of his lost kingdom, Maharana Pratap Singh of Mewar laid the foundation of India's future recovery as a Hindu 🕉 nation, a mission that was carried on and advanced later by the likes of Chhatrapati Shivaii and Guru Gobind Singhji. Maharana lives on in hallowed memory and serves as perennial inspiration to us as we advance in our mission of the renaissance of our civilisation. Jai Eklingji! 🕉

Written by Sugata Bose