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Battle of Dewair (1582)
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| Battle of Dewair of 1582 | |||||
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 Statue of Pratap in Dewair | |||||
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| Belligerents | |||||
| Mewar | Mughal Empire | ||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||
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Maharana Pratap Amar Singh I Rawat Krishnadas Chundawat Bhamashah Rana Punja | Sultan Khan | ||||
Background
Battle of Haldighati
Following the Battle of Haldighati, Pratap lost half of his army and Mughals captured Kumbhalgarh , Gogunda , Udaipur & Chappan. In such conditions, Pratap changed his strategy from open to guerrilla warfare and did not allow Mughals to settle and retake his lost terrirtories. To suppress Pratap, Akbar himself arrived at Mewar in September, 1576 for hunting expeditions in forests during which he occupied Udaipur and it's southern region called 'Wagad' and established Mughal rule in these regions. Pratap alongside his family took shelter in dense hills that time and manage to hide till May,1577 when Akbar returned to Fatehpur Sikri. Only the fortress of Kumbhalgarh was yet unconquered thus Akbar send his general Shahbaz Khan to do so in the next year.[1]
• 1577 : Shahbaz Khan
• 1578 : Shahbaz Khan second time
• 1579 : Again Shahbaz Khan ( Third time attacked Mewar )
• Each of these invasions were able to occupy cities like Udaipur, Chawand, Gogunda and Kumbhalagarh but were unsuccessful in capturing Pratap as he was till that time became a master guerilla and each path of aravali hills was now in his mind this allowing him to hide from mughal troops each and every time till the Mughal's departure from mewar.[citation needed] When Pratap was facing shortage of funds, his minister Bhamashah, whose family held the office for ages, placed at Pratap's disposal their accumulated wealth, which with other resources, is stated to have been equivalent to maintenance of army for 12 years.[citation needed] Thus name of Bhamashah got preserved as saviour of Mewar. With such help from Bhamashah, Pratap was able to arrange his new army and planned a major attack on Dewair Fortress defended by a garrison of less than a thousand men.[citation needed]
Battle
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on 16 September 1582, on the occasion of Dashehra , Maharana Pratap motivated his soldiers to fight back and make Mewar independent once again . Accordingly Mewar army was divided under two groups : One under Maharana Pratap and other under Kunwar Amar Singh and
Pratap attacked the Mughal garrison of Dewair which was commanded by Mughal officer Sultan Khan and defeated it.
Aftermath
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Thus, the Battle of Dewair was a success. In this campaign, Pratap recovered Dewair Fort, which had been lost during Shahbaz Khan's invasion one year ago.
Memorial
On 10 January 2012, a victory memorial commemorating the victory of Maharana Pratap at Dewair was inaugurated by the President of India, Smt. Pratibha Patil.[2]
In the memory of Bhamashah, Bhamashah's birth anniversary or Bhamashah Jayanti is celebrated on 29 June every year.[3].A Bhamashah Yojana bas been started on his name by government of Rajasthan.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ https://persian.packhum.org/main?url=pf%3Ffile%3D00701020%26ct%3D0.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ "Rajsamand Tourism". Government of Rajasthan. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ↑ "I am a proud descendent of Bhamashah: Raj Mahajan". CityAirNews. 27 June 2019.
- ↑ "भामाशा योजना (Bhamashah Yojana ) | राजस्थान सरकार योजना". पीएम योजना,केंद्रीय और राज्य सरकार योजनाओं, केंद्रीय मंत्रालयों और सरकारी विभागों पर समाचार प्राप्त करें (in हिन्दी). 2018-10-08. Retrieved 2018-11-05.