Which 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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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Rana Kumbha. 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. Tradition credits him with thirty-two of the eighty-four forts of Mewar, and he also raised the Vijay Stambha inside Chittorgarh.
Option A is wrong because Rana Hammir belongs to the fourteenth century and is remembered for recovering Chittor and founding the Sisodia branch, not for Kumbhalgarh. Option C is wrong because Rana Sanga, who ruled from 1509, is remembered for the Rajput confederacy and the battle of Khanwa. Option D is wrong because Udai Singh II founded the city of Udaipur in 1559, a different kind of achievement that examiners often swap with this one.
Read the full article: Mewar: Guhils, Sisodias, Kumbha, Sanga and Pratap
Practice Questions
View allThe 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 →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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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.
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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