Evidently, it is rightly named the Great Wall of India after the Great Wall of China. Built of heavy stone bricks, the 15-meter wide wall of Kumbhalgarh Fort is not just an attraction but a wonder as well. It zigzags through barren valleys and along mountaintops. This massive, majestic and mystifying wall is not a mere structure of bricks. It stands as a safeguard of the colossal fort that has some 360 temples. The wall surrounding the fort of Kumbhalgarh is one of the offbeat attractions in India. What has made Kumbhalgarh Fort the most famous World Heritage Site among the hill forts of India is the 36-km long wall. The architecture of Kumbhalgarh Fort is said to be the most impressive, massive and robust of all. He himself had architected the structure of 32 forts including Kumbhalgarh Fort to safeguard the kingdom from invasions. Rana Kumbha, the King of Mewar, had pushed the boundary of his kingdom from Ranthambore in Rajasthan to Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh in the 15th century. Kumbhalgarh Fort is one of those fortresses. Colonel Tod has written the valor of the Maharana and his army, describing the war skills as heroic as the warriors of Sparta, that they were not afraid of an army even four times larger than theirs on the battlefield.įearing Maharana Pratap Singh, Akbar moved his capital to Lahore and came back to Agra only after Maharana died.Īs a true Rajput, knight, patriot, warrior, of the Motherland, Maharana Pratap became immortal in the world forever.Mewar, a historic Rajputana region in Rajasthan, is defended by some 84 forts which have been standing tall on hilltops for ages. After this a long struggle between Rana Pratap and the Mughals took place, due to which the British East India officer and the Colonel James Tod called this war “Marathon of Mewar”. The Dewar war of 1572 is considered to be an important war in history, because in this war the lost kingdoms of Rana Pratap were recaptured. Akbar used every tactic to defeat him, but Maharana remained undefeated till the end.
There was a time when almost the whole of Rajasthan was under the occupation of the Mughal emperor Akbar, but Maharana fought with Akbar for 12 years to save his Mewar.
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Maharana stood with full confidence in front of Akbar. Maharana Pratap was the first Indian king to use guerrilla tactics in a very planned manner and as a result forced the Mughals to kneel down. In the Battle of Dewar in 1582, Maharana Pratap’s army defeated the Mughals and left Chittor and re-occupied most of the land of Mewar. In this war, Maharana adopted the strategy of guerrilla warfare. Local historians state that after this war, there was a saying that “The warriors of Mewar cut the rider with a horse in a single blow”. On the other hand, Maharana Pratap attacked Bahlol Khan’s head with such force that he cut it into two pieces along with the horse. This war was so fierce that Pratap’s son Amar Singh attacked the Mughal commander with a spear which rammed into his body together with the horse into the ground. Maharana Pratap’s army, under the leadership of Maharaj Kumar Amar Singh, attacked the royal police station of Dewar. The Mughal army had 2 lakh soldiers, while the Rajputs were only 22 thousand. Rana Pratap refused to accept subjugation of the Mughals resulting in the historic War of the Haldi Ghati (valley). Therefore, Akbar appointed four ambassadors to convince Rana Pratap, in which Jalal Khan first entered the camp of Rana Pratap in September 1582, in the same order Mansingh, Bhagwandas and King Todarmal also reached to convince Rana Pratap, but Rana Pratap disappointed all four.
The most interesting fact in the reign of Maharana Pratap is that the Mughal Emperor Akbar wanted to bring Rana Pratap under his control without war. He played an important role in winning many battles with agility, speed and bravery.
Chetak has his place in Pratap’s heroic stories. Maharana Pratap had a horse named Chetak which he loved most. Kika means ‘son’ in the dialect of Bhils. He got this name from the Bhils (a community), in whose company he spent the early days. He was also known as Kika during his childhood. Pratap’s grandfather was the great warrior Rana Sanga and grandmother was Maharani Karmavati. According to the Hindu Alamanac (Panchang), Maharana Pratap was born at Kumbhalgarh fort on Jyeshtha Shukla Tritiya of Vikram Samvat 1597 (9th May 1560 AD). This year it happens to be on 25th May 2020.
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