The Wings Of Expression

Having read the history from multiple facets and being an admirer of the Maratha Confederacy, the writer took up the task of bringing the awareness of people to the warrior who was not only kept in dark but was stripped of his due credit due to reasons which were viewed as anti-religious, the warrior who died a death of valour due to superhuman physical exertion in the speedy realisation of his goal of liberating the land from the clutches of the invaders, but unlike other stories this blog intends to only highlight the life of the warrior on the battlefield and not otherwise. Peshwa Bajirao 1 was a warrior of unmatched resilience and foresight had it been that Bajirao did not appear on the scene the Maratha Confederacy would have been just another empire which was crushed in its desire to seek liberation. If one observes. Peshwas were the real rulers who managed the matters of the kingdom. The untimely death of Peshwa Balaji Vishwanath, put forward a matter of serious concern in fro...

If there was ever a warrior who set ablaze the fervor of patriotism and emerged as an emblem of sacrifice it could only be the Rana of Mewar, MaharanaPratap, I'd be lying if ,otherwise.Over 400 years ago, when the glory of the Mughal Empire under Akbar was at its height, a battle was fought near the village of Haldighati in Rajasthan. The mighty Mughal war machine faced the army of the Sisodias of Mewar, a Rajput clan. The Mughals won the battle after a hard-won fight but Rana Pratap, the Mewar King who led the army on the Rajput side, managed to escape. And, for the remaining years of his life, he played a cat and mouse game of great inventiveness with Akbar's armies. It made the most powerful monarch of the world vow to use all the resources at his disposal to destroy Rana Pratap. Akbar failed. And, Mewar was the only Rajput kingdom during his reign, to remain free of Mughal domination.  The Rajput clans owed their origins to foreign races like the Hunas and the Sakas. ...