भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
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- As Chitod was in the hands of the Muslims, he kept his capital moving with him through villages and towns, in those perilous times, and gradually rescued a large portion of his lost kingdom. He also formed a staunch army of desperate but devoted followers, who held their lives at naught. It is a pity that we cannot describe his thrilling exploits and pitched battles here, for want of space.
- In the end, his influence grew so powerful and so widespread, that Akbar himself had to send his imperial army to subdue him. Shameful as it is, Raja Mansingh of Jaipur, who had surrendered himself to Akbar and the Rajput convert Mahabat Khan, committed an unpatriotic act of joining Prince Salim's army, marching against Rana Pratap at the Emperor's orders. And at this time, it was that the celebrated battle of Haldighat was fought. In the heat of fighting, Rana Pratap rode his horse straight at the elephant of Prince Salim and that unrivalled horse, Chetak, without the slightest hesitation, made straight at the trunk of the Prince's elephant and planted his front feet on it. With lightning speed, Rana Pratap's spear whizzed past Prince Salim's throat so dreadfully as to stun the latter for a moment. But seeing that his dart missed the mark, Rana Pratap retreated with equal speed and got mixed up with the army the very next moment, and was not to be singled out.
- Soon he retreated from this undecided battle with thousands of daredevils for his faithful followers, who were sworn to his cause and captivated by his valour and carried the swift guerrilla warfare throughout Mewad, destroying the Muslims and freeing the whole of Mewad except for the capital city of Chitod. In the end, Rana Pratap stabilized his moving capital at Udepur, which never till the end, fell to Akbar. The latter dropped peace-feelers, but Rana Pratap never paid any heed to them. His regime is so replete with chivalrous and romantic adventures, deeds of exceptional valour done by common folks, as those by the great warriors and the Rana himself, that our young generation should delve deep into them and learn them by rote as reverentially as they would, the stories from the Ramayan and the Mahabharat. Fortunately, the romantic Rasos of Rajput Bhats up to the date of the great poet Bhooshan, are still available, which should really be appointed in the secondary schools as compulsory textbooks. But alas! in this critical historical survey of ours, there is no place for citing any passages from them.