{"id":1962,"date":"2019-06-21T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2019-06-21T06:00:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T06:00:40","slug":"maharana-pratap-jayanti-observed-on-6-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/maharana-pratap-jayanti-observed-on-6-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharana Pratap Jayanti observed on 6 June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Maharana Pratap\nJayanti <\/strong>is observed on June 6<\/strong>. It is observed\nto commemorate the birth\nanniversary of the brave Rajput warrior <\/strong>Maharana Pratap.\n It was his 479th\nbirth anniversary.<\/strong>

Maharana\nPratap:<\/strong>
\nMaharana Pratap was the ruler of Mewar. He is\nthe eldest son of Maharana Udai Singh and Maharani Jaiwanta Bai. Maharana\nPratap is a symbol of Rajput valour, gallantry, and diligence. He fought\nagainst Mughal supremacy to free his homeland from their control. 
\nMewar is a province in modern-day Rajasthan. The\nprovince includes Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Rajsamand, Udaipur, Pirawa (Jhalawar),\nNeemuch and Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh, and some parts of Gujarat. 

Some\namazing facts of Maharana Pratap:<\/strong>
\nMaharana Pratap was one of the strongest\nwarriors in India. He is of 7\nfeet 5 inches in height<\/strong>. He carried 360 kg of weight, which\nincluded a spear weighing 80 kg, two swords weighing 208 kg and his armour was\naround 72 kg heavy. His own weight was more than 110 kg.<\/strong>
\nHe had 11 wives, 17 sons, and 5 daughters. <\/strong>
\nHe didn’t\nsurrender to Akbar<\/strong> while all the other Rajput rulers\nsurrendered and became members of his council.
\nMaharana Pratap bravely fought the Haldi Ghati Battle <\/strong>with\nan army of 22,000 against the Mughal army of 80,000. But he lost the war due to\ntreachery by his brother. 
Chetak, <\/strong>Maharana Pratap\u2019s horse, is known for his loyalty to\nhis master. The horse is said to have a tinge of blue on his coat. Chetak lost\nhis life while jumping across a 21-feet wide river to save his master\u2019s life.
Ramprasad, <\/strong>Maharana Pratap’s elephant killed 2 war elephants of\nthe Mughal army. Ramprasad was imprisoned by Akbar and refused to eat anything\nor drink and lost his life on the 18th day.
\nHe died of an injury from the hunting accident <\/strong>while\ntightening the string of a bow with an arrow.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maharana Pratap Jayanti is observed on June 6. It is observed to commemorate the birth anniversary of the brave Rajput warrior Maharana Pratap.  It was his 479th birth anniversary. Maharana Pratap: Maharana Pratap was the ruler of Mewar. He is the eldest son of Maharana Udai Singh and Maharani Jaiwanta Bai. Maharana Pratap is a symbol of Rajput valour, gallantry, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}