Maharana Pratap

At a glance

1. 1Haldighati's result: the RBSE book says the battle gave no result and Akbar's aim was not met; G.N. Sharma and Satish Chandra count it as a Mughal victory.
2. 2Names of the battle: Khamnor (Abul Fazl), Gogunda (Badauni) and Haldighati (Tod), who called the pass 'the Thermopylae of Mewar'.
3. 3Man Singh of Amer, who led the Mughal army, is on the Kachhwahas page.

Facts

Haldighati, 1576

• Date: 18 June 1576 in the RBSE book; 21 June in G.N. Sharma.
• Place: near Khamnor (Rajsamand district), below the Haldighati pass.
• Sides: Pratap's army, its van under Hakim Khan Sur and Bhil archers under Rana Punja, against Akbar's army under Man Singh of Amer, its van under Jagannath Kachhwaha with Asaf Khan.
• The day: Pratap attacked Man Singh's elephant and was wounded; a Jhala chief (Jhala Bida in the RBSE book, Jhala Man Singh in other histories) took his royal emblems so that Pratap could leave the field. By tradition his horse Chetak, wounded in the fight, carried him out and died.
• After the battle: Man Singh did not pursue Pratap.

Dewair and the last years

• Dewair (Rajsamand): Pratap attacked the Mughal post at Dewair, and his son Amar Singh killed its commander Sultan Khan; 1582 in the RBSE book, about 1578 in G.N. Sharma. Tod called Dewair the 'Marathon of Mewar'.
• Recovery: by his death Pratap had won back all of Mewar except Chittor and Mandalgarh.
• Chavand: his capital in his last years.