The battle of Haldighati between Maharana Pratap and the Mughal army was fought in which year?
- A.1568
- B.1572
- C.1576
- D.1582
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, 1576. The battle was fought on 18 June 1576 in the narrow pass of Haldighati near Khamnor, between Maharana Pratap of Mewar and Akbar's army. The fighting was severe but settled nothing: Pratap withdrew into the hills and carried on the struggle from there for twenty more years.
Option A is wrong because 1568 is the year Akbar captured Chittorgarh, during the reign of Pratap's father Udai Singh II. Option B is wrong because 1572 is the year of Pratap's own coronation at Gogunda. Option D is wrong because 1582 is the battle of Dewair, which Pratap won and which began the recovery of Mewar, so the four options are really the four dates of this chapter.
Remember the sequence as one chain: Chittor lost in 1568, Pratap crowned in 1572, Haldighati in 1576 and Dewair in 1582. A paper that gives all four dates is testing whether the chain is in order in your memory.
Read the full article: Mewar: Guhils, Sisodias, Kumbha, Sanga and Pratap
Practice Questions
View allWhich ruler of Mewar built the Kumbhalgarh fort in the Aravalli range?
- A.Rana Hammir
- B.Rana Kumbha
- C.Rana Sanga
- D.Udai Singh II
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Kumbha, properly Kumbhakarna, ruled Mewar from 1433 to 1468 and is remembered above all as a builder of forts; Kumbhalgarh in the Aravallis carries his name and is today part of the Hill Forts of Rajasthan inscribed by UNESCO in 2013.
Read the full explanation →The Vijay Stambha inside Chittorgarh fort was built to commemorate a victory over which ruler?
- A.Bahadur Shah of Gujarat
- B.Mahmud Khalji of Malwa
- C.Alauddin Khalji of Delhi
- D.Babur
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Rana Kumbha built the nine-storeyed Tower of Victory inside Chittorgarh after his campaigns against the Malwa sultan Mahmud Khalji, which began in 1440.
Read the full explanation →The battle of Khanwa, fought in 1527, was between Babur and which Rajput ruler?
- A.Rana Kumbha
- B.Rana Sanga
- C.Maharana Pratap
- D.Rana Hammir
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Sangram Singh, known as Rana Sanga, had built the widest Rajput confederacy of his age and met Babur at Khanwa near Bharatpur in 1527.
Read the full explanation →Who founded the city of Udaipur, and in which year?
- A.Rana Sanga in 1509
- B.Udai Singh II in 1559
- C.Maharana Pratap in 1572
- D.Amar Singh I in 1615
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Udai Singh, saved in childhood by the nurse Panna Dhai from the usurper Banbir, founded a new capital in the valley beside Lake Pichola in 1559, moving the seat of Mewar away from the exposed hill fort of Chittorgarh.
Read the full explanation →Who commanded the Mughal army at the battle of Haldighati?
- A.Man Singh I of Amer
- B.Bairam Khan
- C.Mahabat Khan
- D.Todar Mal
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Akbar sent the Kachhwaha ruler of Amer, Man Singh I, to command at Haldighati, with Asaf Khan beside him. The detail matters in exams because it makes the battle a contest between two Rajput houses in different political positions: Amer had accepted the Mughal alliance, while Mewar refused it.
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