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The Battle of Haldighati was fought in June 1576. However, Akbar had planned an attack on Mewar in February 1576 when Rana Partap Singh refused his peace treaty for the third time in four years. He wanted Rana Partap's defeat in his hands. He was the only one who didn't seem to fear the mighty Timurid domination. He needed to be taught a lesson. Rana Partap was disturbed by the constant visits of Man Singh to Mewar in the last two years, that too with Akbar's peace treaty. Chittorgarh had fallen to the Timurid power, and Mewar had lost its bravest. He wouldn't forget that till his last breath. There was no way he could bow down to the Timurid. 17 Mewari villages were under Timurid dominance. He needed to free them. But his morals of showing no enmity with any Rajput always made him most hospitable towards Man Singh. He was looking for a way to start a war. Man Singh came with a peace treaty in the years 1573 and 1574. It is then that Rana Partap decided that the areas n...

Ever since Kunwar Pratap was young, the idea of his coronation day kept his mother's hopes alive. But never had she imagined his coronation to go the way it did. She had received news from trusted confidantes at Kumbhalgarh, where she was staying with Kunwar Pratap's family, that Udai Singh had passed. It was a shock as Mewar was still struggling to recover from the loss of Chittorgarh. While she fulfilled the rituals of a widow, her thoughts ran to the next course of action. To get her son coronated for Mewar's future. But the next news they received while planning to leave for Gogunda shocked them further. Rani Dheer Bai, who was with the Rana in his last days, did not wait for his other sons to arrive, as she let her son Jagmal do his last rites. Worse, they did not want to wait for the coronation. In a bizzard claim she made to the counsel, accompanied by her brother as witness, she claimed the Rana's last wish was to make her son the king. Her son, who had time and...