As we know that India was attacked by many external forces and also ruled different parts of India. But if we talk about ruling the whole of India, then only two forces were successful in that. It was the Mughal and British government. These two forces ruled India overall 800 years. In which 600 years Mughal and 200 years East India Company ruled. Both of them were very cruel rulers. They destroyed the Culture, dignity, integrity and courtesy of India. For freedom from these two powers, many great warriors of India fought for many years and tried to save the integrity and pride of India. Out of these, we all know about the freedom that India got from the East India Company.But only few people know about the independence from the Mughals. Which can also be seen as the first independence of India. Today in this blog we will read about the first Independence of India.
The Mughals arrived India in 1526 and Babur became the first ruler. Babur, although he had brought few army, but he was the first person who used Canon in India. Using which he easily defeated Ibrahim Lodhi’s large army and captured Delhi. Babur was a very cruel ruler. Babur destroy India’s Culture, Dignity & Unity. Babur also aspired to impose his religion in India. Not only Babur but all the kings of the Mughal Empire were of this tendency. The greatest expansion of the Mughal Empire in India took place during the time of Akbar. Akbar was the king of diplomacy. He had a good understanding of politics. Akbar took the divide and rule policy and made Rajputs fight among themselves. Akbar wanted his rule in the whole of India, but the great ruler Maharana Pratap stood in front of him as a shield. Maharana Pratap not only prevented Akbar from capturing the whole of India but also forced him to flee from Delhi to Lahore. Aurangzeb later became the king in the Mughal Empire. Aurangzeb crossed all limits of cruelty. It is said that Aurangzeb was a staunch Islamic. He started the expansion of Islam to a large extent in India, for which he crossed all limits.
By the way, the foundation for freedom from the Mughals in India had been laid long ago.In which Rana Sang, Maharana Pratap, Maharana Amar Singh, Rani Durgavati, Afghan and many other warriors played the main role. But Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj vowed to establish Purna Swaraj in India. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj vowed to establish Purna Swaraj in India at the age of 14 and laid the foundation of the Maratha Empire. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj expanded the Maratha empire to fulfill his oath and gave a tough fight to the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.To fulfill the dream of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj to establish Swaraj in India the Maratha Empire invaded Delhi on 11 August 1757. At that time Delhi was in the possession of Rohilla Chief Ahmed Shah Abdali. The strength of Maratha army in this war was approx 30,000 & the strength of Abdali army was 40,000. In this war, the Maratha army was led by Raghunath Rao and Malharao Holkar & Abdali’s army was led by Najib-ud-Daula.
A fierce battle took place between the two armies and the Maratha army was victorious. On being victorious, the Maratha army raised the flag on the Red Fort of Delhi. On that day the dream of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was fulfilled and Swaraj was established in Delhi. This was India’s first Independence. But it is a matter of great sadness that many of us do not know about this independence. The Mughals who kept us enslaved for 600 years tried to impose their religion on us.Today we are taught about their works. But no one cares about the torture inflicted by them, no one cares about the ill-effects of them in our country. The Akbar who killed 40,000 innocent people in Chittor, due to which many queens had to commit Jauhar, he is said to be a great ruler. Aurangzeb, whose cruelty was discussed in the whole world, is also known as a verse .No one cares about the people who were really great like – Rana Sanga, Maharana Pratap, Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Sambha ji Maharaj, Bhagat Singh, Khudiram Bose, Subhash Chandra Bose, Chandra Shekhar Azad & more. These personalities are really good personalities not Mughals or Britishers or other foreign invaders.
This was to be considered as the first Independence of India
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Vishal Thakur
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Vishal Thakur 