He upheld the pride of his race and as long as this race lives, it will cherish with pride the memory of one who staked his all in a fight against the person "who wanted to imperialize him".
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But Pratap's name is immortal in the history of this land as a great soldier of liberty who concentrated his attention on this moral aspect of the struggle he had to wage without caring for material advantage or losses involved. Had Pratap joined the service of Akbar, his country could have been saved from the plunder, continuous destruction and ruin. Pratap's remaining aloof from that hold was an impediment to his task(as Abu'l Fazl says). Great warrior as Pratap was, it is to be admitted that Akbar was a master strategist who brought almost everyone into his fold whatever may be the means, except Pratap. Abu'l Fazl notes the actions of Akbar and Pratap in Volume-3 of Akbarnama as follows > "If Akbar was a diplomat, Rana Pratap was ready to provide enough work to imperial forces."
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In the mean time, Pratap was ready with another task for the Mughal Forces. By the feats of his political foresight he made alliances with some of his neighboring states and cleverly diverted the attention of Akbar to undo them. Pratap employed the same strategy against Akbar. DheerBai's first son, Kunwar Jagmaal had already joined Akbar long before. Even his own brother, Sagar(second son of his step-mother DheerBai Bhatiyani), deserted him, and joined Akbar after not being able to sustain the hardships, in 1583. The princes of Marwar, Amer, Bikaner, and even Bundi, late his firm ally, was on side of Akbar. Often Akbar brought Pratap's relations against him, but Pratap indomitable spirit could not be surpassed. It removed from the stage of Rajput politics it's most striking and most attractive personality.
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Pratap's death did more than close an epoch. He was a great ruler by virtue of his being a good man, with homely virtue, simple life, dauntless courage, untiring industry, generosity and kindness which won him great affection and respect. Pratap had played an important part upon the political stage, and represented with remarkable fidelity the views of the great majority of his subjects. !!Īs regards Pratap it must be said that for 25 long years, he spent the prime of his life in hardships, and stood to the might of the mightiest person of not only Hindustan but possibly the most powerful empire of that time. It is a strange irony of history that Akbar began his career of the conquest in Mewar with the possession of the Forts of Chittor and Mandalgarh after the Battle of Chittor( 1567-68), and ended up retaining these two only at his death( 1605). The facts as explained above make us think that the right course for Akbar after Haldgi-Ghati War( 1576) would have been to stop the useless carnage in Mewar, to be content with the results already acquired, to hold the captured forts fast, and rally the population of that part to the standard of the principles followed in the Mughal dominion. Whatever may be the case, but only Chittor and Mandalgarh remained in the hands of Akbar, at the end. The application of Bhil Tribal infantry for dash and sudden attacks added a novelty to his system of warfare which no one can ignore. His defensive mountainous warfare became a technique in itself. Cutting the enemy's communications, surprise attacks and retreat, the new tactics applied scientifically to his advantage against heavy odds, were legacies which he gave to the generations following him.
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At the Battle of HaldiGhati, it is true - his army, initially, had destroyed the Mughal army which " started to flee(not retreat) from the battle-field after the Pratap army's onslaught **", but they committed a sad error by subsequent engagement in the frontal attack against the numerically much superior Mughal army with reinforcements, where four hours of action brought disaster and ruin to them but equally true is the fact that he made amends, by subsequently following the policy of abandoning a post and rallying his strength in the hilly strongholds. As a general and leader of men in war, Pratap was a person suited to the need of his own time and also "his conditions".