Maharana Kumbha

Rana Kumbha or Kumbhakarna Singh, died 1468 AD) was the ruler of Mewar, a state in western India, between 1433 and 1468 AD, and belonging to the Sisodia clan of Rajputs. Kumbha was a son of Rana Mokal of Mewar by his wife Sobhagya Devi, a daughter of Jaitmal Sankhla, the Parmara fief-holder of Runkot in the state of Marwar. Rana Kumbha was the vanguard of the fifteenth century Hindu resurgence in northwestern India. A very tall and powerful man, he held the Mewar flag flying high in an age ...

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Akbar

Abu’l Fath Jalal ud-din Muhammad Akbar I, (15 October 1542- 27 October 1605) and later the Akbar the Great was the Mughal Emperor from the 1556 until his death. Akbar was the third and one of the greatest rulers of the Mughal Dynasty in India. Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun, under the regent, Bairam Khan, who helped the young emperor expand and consolidate Mughal domains in India. The last emperor of India, Bahadur Shah, was forced into the exile in Burma by Britain during the Sepoy ...

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Shivaji

Shivaji Bhonsle, also known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was an Indian warrior king and the member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan. Shivaji carved out an enclave from declining Adilshahi sultanate of Bijapur that formed the genesis of the Maratha Empire. In 1674, he was formally crowned as the Chhatrapati (Monarch) of his realm at Raigad. Shivaji established the competent and progressive civil rule with the help of the disciplined military and well structured administrative organisations. He ...

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Maharana Mokal

Mokal or Mokal Singh (ca. 1409 - 1433), was the Maharana (r. 1421 - 1433) of Mewar Kingdom. He was a son of Mahanara Lakha. In his reign, Marwar invades Mewar and Mokal is assassinated at age 24. He died 1433. Maharana Mokal was a great builder and he inherited this trait from his father, Maharana Lakha. He created various buildings along with completing those commenced by his father. The duty to transform their motherland thus flowed down the veins of the Sisodiyas. Maharana Lakha, the ...

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Peter the Great

Peter the Great, Peter I or the peter Alexeyevich, was born in 1672 and he died in 1725. He ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from the 7 May 1682 until his death, jointly ruling before the 1696 with his half brother. Peter the great led a cultural revolution that replaces some of the traditionalist and the medieval social and political systems with the ones that were modern, scientific, westernized and based on the Enlightenment. Peter’s reforms made the lasting ...

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Napoleon

Napoléon Bonaparte , born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again in 1815. Napoleon dominated European affairs for over a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars. He won most of these wars and the vast majority ...

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Maharana Pratap

Maharana Pratap or Pratap Singh (09 May 1540 – 29 January 1597) was the ruler of Mewar, a region in north-western India in the present day state of Rajasthan.He was the eldest son of Maharani Jayawantabai and Maharana Udai Singh II, founder of Udaipur. He belonged to the Sisodia clan of Rajputs. At a young age, Pratap Singh II granted the district of Lakhola to Deep Singh; the younger son of Umaid Singh of Bundi, without seeking his father’s consent. This infuriated his father Maharana Jagat ...

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