Thread by @iamarpan_m

India after 2014 has suddenly been a renaissance to a community labelled as majority, although the term should be indigenous if the agenda has to be fulfilled at the maximum. However, the debate of majority and minority has come forward not recently.

Indians have been fooled by not even firing a shot, and just by the normal put the knife on throat tactics by the Colonizers for almost 4 centuries.
No one amongst us was behind in fueling the burn that started in house of Commons and slowly burnt down the ethos of the holy-land.

However, this rant would never end, but equally sad is the situation of the India which compares its own Ancient Wisdom to Medieval Glory in the backdrop of Modern mindset.

India was a glory in every times and we were looked at by the invaders be it Arabs, or Turks, or Afghans, because everybody knew the already existing fault lines in the Indian political megasystem of that time and eventually British used the same tactics too.

We all are well read with this title and our memories down the lane go very fresh with a table which shows every Mughal ruler who ever ruled the Indian subcontinent and gave as well as took something out of our ethos.

Recently, GoI has been proactive in preserving the other glories and wants to embark a new historical contrast to what has been traditionally taught to a population which amounts to more than 50% already.
Least we can do is writing about other glories non traditionally.

We will hitherto see such a glory story which is very less discussed, or let us say, not ever taught to a school child.
This is the story of Hemchandra Vikramaditya or Hemu.
He ruled from Delhi for a little period of over 3 weeks, labeled as VIKRAMADITYA.

The link of this to the previous rant is because it was just not Sher Shah Suri who ruled in middle of Mughal rule in India, but even a Hindu ruler or let us say one born in Indian soil did rule from Delhi too.
he barely finds a place in Indian history book, even if so, in boxes.

Hemu was not a noble born, neither he had any military lineage. He was a vegetable vendor and left the job due to declining conditions of agriculture in those contemporary times and slowly developed interest in military tactics.

During his rise in the military reigns, India was being served by the Sur empire, Sher Shah Suri. They were Afghans who throttled to Delhi and Agra from what is today Bengal-Bihar region by threading Humayun away from the takth in Delhi.

Sher Shah Suri is said to have died while he was on a siege for the fort from Rajputs when he was scummed to death by their own garrison (there are many legends to this story). This paved way for Islam Shah to rise to the new Nawab of India.

Islam Shah was not a very able ruler, but this saw Hemu's slow rise in power and he was made the Superintendent of Market and later to the post of Chief of Intelligence to spy on rebellious Afghan nobles.
Islam was succeeded by Adil Shah who appointed Hemu as PM and commander.

There was a revolt against Adil Shah over the empire and it was divided into 4 sub empires.
Hemu fought 22 wars and lost none of them just to keep the area from Bihar to Agra under the rule of Adil.
The area beyond Agra was under Sikander Shah wo was defeated by Humayun.

The certainty now grew enough that there will be a direct confrontation between Mughals who recaptured Delhi and Hemu who can be asserted as the ruler because Adil Shah was a ruler in name, all the power was vested with Hemu whatsoever.

There is a special mention to a skillset which Hemu learnt while he was spending his times in what today we know as Rewari in Haryana.
He equipped himself with the canon making which would serve the Sur empire.

To his dismay, all those canons will be taken aback with the Mughal general Bairam Khan , who was serving Akbar to the throne after Humayun's death.

Hemu was preparing for the war with Humanyun, but he died in 1556, just before Hemu was starting his march on Mughal territories.
Now the Mughal glory came with Akbar who was merely a 14 year old kid being served by a able general Bairam Khan.

Hemu started his march towards Delhi from Bengal region and a showdown was at the Battle of Tughlaqabad or also called Battle of Delhi.
The governor of Delhi Tardi Beg Khan was frightened and called for backup from Akbar.

The Mughals couldn’t match the ferocity and soon after started retreating from the battlefield, it was a total disaster for the Mughals.
This saw Delhi under the rule of Hemu, who did his Rajyabhishek and took the title of Vikramaditya.

His coronation took place at Purana Qila in the presence of Afghan and Rajput commanders with all religious ceremonies.
He reorganized the army and made many new appointments with no Afghans being struck down.
Cow Slaughter was banned and many other mercantile reforms on cards.

The news from Delhi sent back shock wavs to the Mughal royalty and they soon came out on a campaign against Samrat Hemu.
On 5 November 1556, the Mughal army met Hemu's army at the historic battlefield of Panipat and set out the Second Battle of Panipat.

Mughals had the canons which was the enforcement idea of Hemu. Nevertheless, knowing that he will have to bear the early losses from those canons, Hemu took no assault until the canons were sided and once it was done, there was a full scale offensive on the Mughal forces.

Akbar was kept much away from the battlefield with a unit of soldiers and he was seeing the breakdown of his army very systematically by the Hemu's tactic based army fight.

In a blink of eye, the history was been changed when a random arrow from a soldier of Mughal army hits the eyes of Hemu and he becomes unconscious, seeing which the army of Hemu looses confidence and slowly starts to retreat seeing their commander and king losing his body.

The elephant carrying the unconscious and almost dead Hemu was captured after several hours of finishing the battle and led to the Mughal camp.
The 13 year old Akbar was asked to behead the warrior to which he declined, later Bairam Khan did that by himself.

This marked an end to the Hemu's rule, and also the last independent Hindu ruler in India.
There was certainly a matter of luck siding Mughals, else the history of India would have been a lot different.

HEMU 🙏