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
DevanagariHindipublished494 पृष्ठ
पृष्ठ 311, कुल 494 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 311
- 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.