Pratap Singh : (Mahārāṇā) (1545?-97), son of the coward Rāṇā Udaya Singh II & his Chauhan queen, but a worthy grandson of Rāṇā Saṇga. He ruled Mewār from 1572 till his death on 19 Jan.’1597. He had to face not only the Moghul army but also those of cowardly Rajput kings like Raja Todar Mal (see Akbar) & Raja Mān Singh of Amber. In April 1576, in battle at Haldighāti, Asaf Khan & Mān Singh crushed his small army. When the Rāṇā was severely wounded his companion Jhālā Mān diverted the attacks by donning the Rāṇā’s turban while the Rāṇā’s brother Shakti Singh spirited him away. Shakti Singh & the Rāṇā’s horse Chetak carried him into Chavand in the ancient Aravalli Hills. Then, helped by Bhil archers & warriors, he began ambushing larger & larger Mogul patrols until he defeated a large contingent. “Mughal pressure on Mewār relaxed after 1579 following rebellions in Bengal & Bihar & Mirza Muhammad Hakim’s incursion into the Punjab. In 1582, Mahārāṇā Pratāp attacked & occupied the Mughal post at Dewair (or Dewar). In 1585, Akbar moved to Lahore & remained there for the next twelve years watching the situation in the north-west. No major Mughal expedition was sent to Mewār during this period. Taking advantage of the situation, Mahārāṇā Pratāp recovered Western Mewār including Kumbhalgarh, Udaipur & Gogunda. During this period, he also built a new capital, Chavand, near modern Dungarpur (see Dongurh”. This record inspired British historian Col. Tod to glorify him as the Leonidas of Rajasthan. Mahārāṇā Pratāp died at Chavand.
... Jammu. A large number of dispensaries were opened all over the State in his time. The good doctor also founded the first municipality in Srinagar. As an important Minister in the Council of Maharaja Pratap Singh he was able to raise the status of the State School, and introduced the teaching of English. Was it Dr. Mitra's idea to make motorable the Jhelun Cart Road over the Banihal Pass which linked Srinagar ...
... have to use force to remove him and injury is quite possible. Disciple : Pratap Singh may be persuaded by Krishnamachari to part with some of his privileges. Sri Aurobindo : I saw his photograph today. He has a weak face, nothing of the grand father in him. His father had more brilliance and dash. Pratap Singh has a soul – but not a strong one. Page 215 Jaysingh Rao ...
... with the patriot; he has seen himSelf in his nation & seeks to lose his lower self in that higher national Self; because he can do so, we have a Mazzini, a Garibaldi, a Joan of Arc, a Washington, a Pratap Singh or a Sivaji; the lower material self Page 139 could not have given us these; you do not manufacture such men in the workshop of utility, on the forge of Charvaka or grow them in the ...
... configuration and conclusion. Curzon had divided Bengal, and injured and insulted a great nation; and, by a strange irony of history, his successor Minto was called upon to face the music. As Sir Pratap Singh, a titled dignitary of the time, put it with charming naïveté, "Lord Curzon has strewn Lord Minto's bed with thorns, and he must lie on them." 1 "Sedition" was divined here - there - everywhere ...
... Krishna Dhan helped enormously in their son Ashutosh's education. Dr. Ashutosh Mitra later joined the Kashmir State service as the Chief Medical Officer; he was as civic-minded as his uncle. Maharaja Pratap Singh of Kashmir took note of the sterling qualities of his C. M. O. and, in appreciation, made him the Acting Chief Minister of Kashmir State. When Sri Aurobindo went to Kashmir in 1903, he met his cousin ...
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