Talk:Maldeo Rathore

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Humayun, Babur's son was defeated by SherShah Suri, a Pathan. Humayun was forced to leave India and Sher Shah became ruler of Delhi. The Sesodias of Mewar were not yet recovered from Rana Sanga's treacherous defeat. In Marwar the Rathores were becoming very powerful. The Rathore king Rao Maldeo had extended his territory to within a couple of hundred kilometers of Delhi. Sher Shah attacked Maldeo. Maldeo came with a force of 40 thousand and Sher Shah had 60 thousand. In the evening Sher Shah sent forged letters to Maldeo's camp. In these letters it was stated that few generals from Maldeo's army were buying arms from Sher Shah's army. This caused great consternation in Maldeo who thought there is treachery and that some of his generals had crossed over to Sher Shah. Maldeo left with 20 thousand men. In reality there was no treachery. Later when Maldeo's generals Kumpa (his progeny are Kumpawat rathores) and Jaita (his progeny are Jaitawat rathores) found out what happened they did not loose cool and decided they would not leave the field even though they just had 20 thousand men and had to face 60 thousand Pathans of Sher Shah. Finally battle of Sammel was fought and Sher Shah was shocked by what he saw. SherShah's top generals lost there lives and his army suffered heavy losses. After this Sher Shah commented that "for a few grains of bajra [a grain crop that grows in Marwar] he had almost lost the entire kingdom of India".It is a moot point now but had Maldeo not retreated because of the fake letter Rathores/Rajputs would have defeated SherShah. In my bhoomi (Rajasthan) Deoras are considered the most stubborn, Hadas the most brave and Rathores the invincible warriors on the battlefield (Ranbanka Rathore).

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if you don't mind can you give me info about these sources i would like to put them in proper format in the article. Jodhpur Khyat p. 76 Vir Vinod II p. 812 Marwar ri pargana ri Vigat vol II p. 60 Arms & Armour at the Jaipur court by Robert Elgood p.10 Heba Aisha (talk) 11:17, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Yes, Jodhpur Khyat p. 76 Vir Vinod II p. 812 Marwar ri pargana ri Vigat vol II p. 60, are from the book "Rathores of marwar". I dont have access to the book at the moment. As for elgood it says "the small kingdom of Amber was a feudatory of Marwar until the sixteenth century". Ranadhira (talk) 12:38, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Regarding war with mughals.
There is some problem with this section, earlier primary source of 16th century was used as citation which i removed. Other source by Parihar doesnt say what is included in the page. Year is different too. I am going to read some other good sources on the subject to make sense of it. I will edit the page after that. Sajaypal007 (talk) 21:44, 20 September 2020 (UTC)