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The 13^th king of Mewar ‘Maharana Pratap ‘was born on 9 May 1540, in Kumbhalgarh, Rajasthan India. He was the greatest Rajput warrior and he is known for resisting the Mughal ruler Akbar to conquer his territory.

Who is Maharana Pratap Singh?

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Full Name	Maharana Pratap Singh
Date of birth	9 May 1540
Name of Birthplace	Kumbhalgarh, Mewar, Rajasthan, India
Name of father	Udai Singh ll
Name of Mother	Jaiwanta bai
Siblings	Shakti Singh, Vikram Singh, Jagmal Singh
Religion	Hindu
Marital Status	Married
Spouse	Maharani Ajabde
Height	7ft 5 inch
Weight	360 kg included Spear(80kg), two swords(208kg), armour (72kg)
Date of death	19 January 1597 (56)

The 13^th king of Mewar named Maharana Pratap Singh was born on 9 May 1540 in Mewar, Rajasthan, India. A famous Rajput warrior and of northwestern region Mewar. Pratap Singh is recognized for fighting against the attempts of the Mughal ruler Akbar o conquer his territory. Different from other Rajput rulers, Pratap Singh repeated fight against to submit the Kingdom of Mewar to Mughal ruler Akbar till his last breath. He was the hero of Rajasthan.

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Early Life

Maharana Pratap belongs to the Hindu religion and born in a Rajput family. He was the son of Udai Singh and jaiwanta bai. He had three younger brothers Jagmal Singh, Shakti Singh, and Vikram Singh. Also, Pratap had 2 Stepsisters Man Kanwar and Chand Kanwar. His father was King of the Mewar and Pratap lived a royal life.

In 1567, Mewar’s capital, Chittor was surrounded by Mughal forces, at that time the kind of Mewar instead of fighting with Mughal left the capital and shifted to Gogunda with his family.

In 1572, Udai Singh got died and after the death of Udai Singh, rani Dheer Bai Preferred her son jagmal to sued him but senior countries felt that Pratap was a better choice, as the elder son to be king of Mewar.

The Battle of Haldighati

Battle of haldighati

On June 18, 1576, the army of Rajput stood in front of the Mughal army (Under the command of Asaf Khan) at Haldighati. The force of Akbar and Rajput fought together and the Mughals won but they failed to catch Maharana. The place of battle was a narrow mountain pass at Haldighati near Gogunda, nowadays Rajsamand and Rajasthan.

Pratap filled his force with 3000 cavalry and 400 Bhil archers, where the Mughal force was containing around 5000-10,000 men, the fierce battle end in more, then six hours, Maharana Pratap was wounded then he left that place and escape to the hills and lived to fight another day. The victory of Mughal was futile because they were unable to capture Maharana Pratap or any family member.

Reconquest over Mughal

In 1582, Maharana Pratap got back and attacked Mughal’s past at Dewair after a fight the army of Pratap won over Mughal and occupied dewair After one Victory Pratap did not stop, he has gone ahead and occupied all 36 Mughal military outposts in Mewar.

After this big defect, Akbar stopped his action against Mewar. This Victory was described as “Marathon of Mewar”.

In 1585, Akbar moved to Lahore and lived twelve years watching the situation on the northwest. Taking this advantage, Pratap recovered Western Mewar including Gogunda Kumbhalgarh and Udaipur. He also built a new capital, “Chavand” near modern Dungarpur.

Death and legacy

Maharana Pratap got died at the age of 56 dates of the death was on 19 January 1597. He got died as the result of injuries sustained during his incessant struggle against the Mughal Empire.

Some interesting facts about Rana Pratap Singh

He had eleven wives, five daughters, and seventeen sons. The name of his Wives is rani lakhabai, rani Ratnawati bai Parwar, Ajabde Punwar, Rani Champa bai Jhatt, rani Shahrnatibai Hada, rani khichari Ashabai, Rani Alameda Bai Chauhan, rani Phool bai Rathore, Rani Solankhinipur bai, rani Amarbai Rathore.
Maharana Pratap and his family had lived in the forest for a long time. They had to eat chapattis made of grass.
He had a horse whose name was Chetak and the horse was very faithful
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