{"id":2072,"date":"2022-05-30T16:40:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2022-05-31T09:16:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T03:46:16","slug":"book-review-suheldev-amish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/2022\/05\/30\/book-review-suheldev-amish\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Suheldev – Amish"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brief Comparison of Two Historical events of great significance<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nFirst Battle of Panipat<\/strong><\/td>\nBattle of Bahraich<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Year<\/strong><\/td>\n1526<\/td>\n1033<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Belligerants<\/strong><\/td>\nTimiurids under Babur and Ibrahim Lodhi<\/td>\nRaja Suheldev and\u00a0Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Force Levels<\/strong><\/td>\nBabur<\/strong> – 12,000[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u201325,000 soldiers\u00a0[2]<\/a><\/sup>[3]<\/a><\/sup>
\n15\u201320 field guns[1]<\/a><\/sup>Lodhi<\/strong>20,000 regular cavalry[3]<\/a><\/sup>
\n20,000 irregular cavalry[3]<\/a><\/sup>
\n30,000 infantry armed with swords, pikes, bows and bamboo rods[3]<\/a><\/sup>[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/td>\n		Salar Masud<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n

1,00,000<\/p>\n

Raja Suheldev<\/strong> and Confederation\u00a0 of 21 States<\/p>\n

1,20,000.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Outcome of Battle<\/strong><\/td>\nBabur defeated Lodhi and captured the throne of Delhi<\/strong><\/td>\nThe Turkish army was routed and every single barbarian marauder\u00a0 was killed in the battle.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Impact<\/strong><\/td>\n200 years of Islam’s Tyranny .<\/strong><\/td>\n160 years of peace .<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Almost every Indian would have heard of the battle of Panipat but a few would have heard of the battle of Bahraich<\/p>\n

This book by Amish Tripathi is an attempt to fill that huge gap in our knowledge of history of Bharat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The book starts around thousand years ago, in 1025, describing the looting of Somanath temple by Mahmud of Gazani. The temple is defended by a small force led by Prince Malledev of Suhasti (100km from present day Lucknow) Every single defender is brutally killed by the Turks and the temple is looted and destroyed.<\/p>\n

This raid is followed by a period of sporadic raids and plunder by the Turks. The kings of small States make peace with the Turks , at an to enormous cost , to be on the winning side as the invaders were considered invincible.<\/p>\n

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Raja of Suhasti, \u00a0Mordhwaj thought\u00a0 otherwise. He made a valiant effort to unite the hindu kingdoms against the islamic invaders , to defend Bharatvarsh.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the course of his efforts to unite the kings, he travels across the country , sometime in stealth , with only a small contingent of soldiers , along with his son, Prince Suheldev.<\/p>\n

In one such trip , he encounters a band of Turkish marauders, that he manages to defeat with very little casualty to his own troops.<\/p>\n

That’s the time the Prince Suheldev makes up his mind to wage a guerrilla warfare against the Turks , till such time a united front could be established.<\/p>\n

Years passed; the king continued in his efforts to create a confederation of States while the Prince and his band of soldiers made a name for themselves ,in the border villages as the nemesis for the Turkish Barbarians.<\/p>\n

In 1033, the King dies and Prince Suheldev succeeds him.<\/p>\n

Around the same time the nephew of Mahmud of Gazani, Salal Maqsud invades with an army of over 1,00,000 soldiers.<\/p>\n

This time , his aim was not to loot and scoot but to rule over Bharat and establish an Islamic State.<\/p>\n

The Chola empire under King Rajendra Chola was too powerful and the Turks intended to subjugate the northern kingdoms first and thereafter gradually expand southwards.<\/p>\n

King Suheldev had forged a formidable alliance with 21 Kings and a large army was mobilized to confront the barbarians.<\/p>\n

King Suheldev chose the plains near Bahraich to take on the Turks as the terrain was protected on both sides from possible outflanking moved ,by forests and a Lake.<\/p>\n

What followed was a complete rout of the invaders. For once, the Turks were paid back in their own coin; there were no prisoners taken and every one of the invaders was killed in battle.<\/p>\n

Till today ,the grave of Salar Masud<\/span> stands testimony to the botched invasion. Ironically there is a cult following of Indian muslims for this barbarian while a memorial for Raja Suheldev is still in the making. That’s the typical Indian brand of secularism.<\/p>\n

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On 16 February 2021, the foundation stone of Maharaja Suheldev Memorial was laid in Bahraich,\u00a0Uttar Pradesh<\/a>, through video conferencing by Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi<\/a>\u00a0for the project that would include the installation of an equestrian statue of Maharaja Suheldev.[23]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0Government of Uttar Pradesh<\/a>, headed by\u00a0Yogi Adityanath<\/a>, celebrated the day as the birth anniversary of Suheldev and issued an official note on stating, “King Suheldev had fought, defeated and killed the Ghaznavid general Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud in a famous battle held on the bank of Chittora lake in Bahraich in 1033.”[24]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n

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Like all Amish Tripathi novels, the style is racy , descriptive and totally absorbing.<\/p>\n

The book has been written not by one writer ,but a team of writers. The genesis of the story and the final writing was done by Amish Tripathi while composing of the first draft was left to a team of writers, who were given the general idea and recommended reasearch materials.<\/p>\n

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Keeping with the spirit of the book,<\/p>\n

I sign off with<\/p>\n

Jai Maa Bhaarat!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Glory to King Suheldev and Glory to Mother India.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A brief Comparison of Two Historical events of great significance First Battle of Panipat Battle of Bahraich Year 1526 1033 Belligerants Timiurids under Babur and Ibrahim Lodhi Raja Suheldev and\u00a0Ghazi Saiyyad Salar Masud Force Levels Babur – 12,000[1]\u201325,000 soldiers\u00a0[2][3] 15\u201320 field guns[1]Lodhi20,000 regular cavalry[3] 20,000 irregular cavalry[3] 30,000 infantry armed with swords, pikes, bows and … Continue reading “Book Review: Suheldev – Amish”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}