The transfer got here inside months of communal violence in Nuh district, which started throughout a Vishva Hindu Parishad-led non secular procession in July final 12 months. Nuh district influences the electoral end result in two parliamentary seats, Gurugram and Faridabad.
Addressing the individuals after unveiling the statue, Khattar praised Mewati’s valour in defending the nation towards the Mughals. “The nation will always honour the memory of such brave martyrs,” he stated.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat, too, has praised Mewati previously.
Crafted by Rajasthan sculptor Naresh Kumawat with glass fibre and ‘panchdhatu‘ (5 metals), the statue depicts the raja as a warrior, sitting on a horse with a spear in a single hand and a sword hanging from his waist.
Khattar later posted a video and message in regards to the statue unveiling on X, previously Twitter.
Live: मुख्यमंत्री श्री @mlkhattar नूंह में आयोजित राजा हसन खान मेवाती शहीदी दिवस समारोह में… https://t.co/wirS2p56BP
— CMO Haryana (@cmohry) March 9, 2024
“Under the Sant Mahapurush Samman and Vichar Prachar Yojna, today I participated in the martyrdom day of Shaheed Raja Hasan Khan Mewati and paid my tribute,” Khattar stated in one other message on X.
संत महापुरुष सम्मान एवं विचार प्रसार योजना के तहत आज नूंह में आयोजित शहीद राजा हसन खान मेवाती के शहीदी दिवस में सम्मिलित होकर उनके बलिदान को याद किया।
आकांक्षी जिले नूंह के विकास और लोगों के जीवन स्तर में सुधार की दृष्टि से आज शिक्षा, इन्फ्रास्ट्रक्चर, स्वास्थ्य तथा खेलकूद से… pic.twitter.com/pQs9SHNdG1
— Manohar Lal (मोदी का परिवार) (@mlkhattar) March 9, 2024
Who was Hasan Khan Mewati
According to Saddique Ahmad Meo, a historian of the Mewat area, the primary ruler of the Mewat dynasty was Samarpal (additionally Sonpal). He turned near Firoz Shah Tughlaq in 1372 after he saved Tughlaq’s life from a tiger. Named Khanzada Bahadur Nahar (tiger) by Tughlaq, he dominated until 1402.
Raja Hasan Khan Mewati was the ninth and the final ruler of the Mewat dynasty, ruling from 1504 to 1527. He was slain on 17 March 1527, preventing alongside Rana Sanga of Mewar towards the forces of Babur. After his time, the dynasts — titled khanzadas — had been diminished to Zamindars.
Mewati was born round 1491 at Tijara close to Alwar in present-day Rajasthan to Khanzada Alawal Khan, the eighth ruler of the Mewat dynasty.
“Hasan Khan Mewati was of sharp intellect from early childhood. His early education was at home. He knew Hindi, Urdu, Persian, and Arabic well. Along with these languages, battle skills and ruling arts were also taught to him,” stated Meo.
Mewati grow to be a talented horse rider and warrior. At 25, he took over the reins of energy in 1516 throughout his father’s lifetime.
His maternal cousin, Sultan Ibrahim Khan Lodi, was Delhi’s ruler of that point. Ibrahim Lodi was so impressed with Mewati’s bravery that he conferred the title of “raja” on him.
“During his rule, Mewat was a strong state with boundaries from Delhi’s Sarai Laat to Alwar. The state’s income was 16,98,100 tanka, equal to Rs 8,49,050 per annum. However, a tempest from the western borders in the shape of an attack by Emperor Babur in 1526 altered the history of India, along with that of Mewat,” stated Meo.
In the primary Battle of Panipat between Babur’s forces and the Lodi empire on 21 April 1526, Raja Hasan Khan Mewati fought alongside Ibrahim Lodi with a military of 1 lakh, comprising Jats, Pathans and Meos.
However, they misplaced the battle by the night. Ibrahim Lodi was martyred, Babur captured Mewati’s son Tahir Khan, and Mewati’s father Alawal Khan was discovered useless in his camp.
The battle decisively ended the Delhi Sultanate and established the Mughal Empire. “This defeat upset Hasan Khan Mewati badly. Babur had captured Delhi and Agra and had become the emperor of Bharat. Mewati’s son was in Babur’s custody,” stated Meo.
Mewati then contacted Ibrahim Lodi’s uncle, Mehmood Lodi, and Maharana Sanga and began a plan to oust Babur from India. However, he needed his son’s launch first, stated Meo.
“He sent a messenger to Babur for this purpose. Babur wanted Mewati to join him and even used both of them being Muslims as a reason why Mewati should join hands with him… However, Mewati replied that though he was Babur’s ‘Kalma-go bhai’ being a Muslim, he was a true Muslim and could not go back on his words,” Meo stated.
Though “upset with Mewati’s reply”, Babur launched Tahir Khan with a letter addressed to Mewati, asking him to rethink his stand and are available to his facet. However, quickly after his son’s launch, Mewati got down to meet Rana Sanga together with his 12,000-strong horse-riding military.
The Rana Sanga-led forces went to struggle with Babur’s forces at Khanwa close to Bharatpur in 1527. During the battle, Rana Sanga was injured and evacuated from the battlefield. Mewati took command however was killed when a shell from a cannon fired by Babur’s forces burst close to him. Their defeat consolidated the Mughal rule for hundreds of years to return.
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‘Bharat Mata Putra’
Nine years in the past, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat paid tribute to Raja Hasan Khan Mewati in a speech at Khanwa close to Bharatpur, the place Mewati fought his final battle.
Bhagwat asserted that Rana Sanga’s warrior Hasan Khan Mewati had rejected Babur’s provide to affix his military and known as him ‘Bharat Mata Putra’.
On 16 October 2021, Bhagwat once more named Mewati whereas addressing a public gathering throughout a Vijaydashami occasion in Jaipur.
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