A report on Babur and Rana Sanga

Idealized portrait of Babur, early 17th century

Early matchlocks, musketeers, swivel guns, mortars and other firearms of Timurids

Coin minted by Babur during his time as ruler of Kabul. Dated 1507/8

The meeting between Babur and Sultan Ali Mirza near Samarkand

Mughal artillery and troops in action during the Battle of Panipat (1526)

Babur encounters the Jain statues at the Urvah valley in Gwalior in 1527. He ordered them to be destroyed

Bobur Square, Andijan, Uzbekistan in 2012

His reign was admired by several of contemporaries including Babur, who described him the "greatest Indian king" of that time along with Krishnadevaraya of South India.

- Rana Sanga

The Mewar kingdom, under the able rule of Rana Sanga, had turned into one of the strongest powers of northern India.

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Rajput

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Large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the Indian subcontinent.

During their centuries-long rule, the Rajputs constructed several palaces. Shown here is the Junagarh Fort in Bikaner, Rajasthan, which was built by the Rathore Rajput rulers

A royal Rajput procession, depicted on a mural at the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur

Karni Mata, Hindu Goddess primarily worshipped by Rajputs

The Rajput bride, illustration in The Oriental Annual, or Scenes of India (1835)

Rajputs of Udaipur playing the game of Puchesee.

An 18th-century Rajput painting by the artist Nihâl Chand.

Kumbha's grandson renowned Rana Sanga inherited a troubling kingdom after death of his brothers but through his capable rule turned traditional kingdom of Mewar into one of the greatest power in northern India during the early 16th century.

Sanga led a grand alliance of Rajput rulers and defeated the Mughal forces of Babur in early combat but was defeated at Khanua through Mughal's use of Gunpowder which was unknown in Northern India at the time.

Lodi dynasty

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The Lodi dynasty

The Battle of Panipat and the death of Sultan Ibrāhīm.

The Bara Gumbad in Lodhi Gardens in Delhi, India. Built in 1490 CE, probably by Sikandar Lodhi, it is believed to have the earliest constructed full dome of any building in Delhi.

The Shish Gumbad, a tomb from the Lodhi Dynasty built between 1489 and 1517 CE.<ref name="Unknown Tomb">{{cite news|title=Unknown Tomb|publisher=competentauthoritydelhi.co.in|access-date=15 October 2015|url=http://competentauthoritydelhi.co.in/MonumentViewer.aspx?ID=16}}</ref>

right|thumb|The Rajon ki Baoli stepwell was built by Sikandar Lodi in 1516.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sahai |first1=Surendra |title=Indian Architecture: Islamic Period, 1192-1857 |date=2004 |publisher=Prakash Books, India |isbn=978-81-7234-057-5 |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pUnqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA37 |language=en|quote="Rajon ki baoli ( 1516 ) is one of the major public welfare projects of Sikandar Lodi ." }}</ref>

This marked the end of the Lodi Dynasty and the rise of the Mughal Empire in India led by Babur ((r.

Rana Sanga, the Rajput leader of Mewar ((r.

Mughal painting depicting the Rajput Army (Left) battling the Mughal Army (Right)

Battle of Khanwa

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Fought at Khanwa which is 60 km west of Agra on March 16, 1527.

It was fought between the invading Timurid forces of Babur and the Rajput confederacy led by Rana Sanga for suprermacy of Northern India.

The empire at its greatest extent in c. 1700 under Aurangzeb ((r. 1658 – 1707))

Mughal Empire

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Early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries.

Akbar holds a religious assembly of different faiths in the Ibadat Khana in Fatehpur Sikri.

Group portrait of Mughal rulers, from Babur to Aurangzeb, with the Mughal ancestor Timur seated in the middle. On the left: Shah Jahan, Akbar and Babur, with Abu Sa'id of Samarkand and Timur's son, Miran Shah. On the right: Aurangzeb, Jahangir and Humayun, and two of Timur's other offspring Umar Shaykh and Muhammad Sultan. Created c. 1707–12

Coin of Aurangzeb, minted in Kabul, dated 1691/2

Miniature painting - Portrait of an Old Mughal Courtier Wearing Muslin

Muslim Lady Reclining or An Indian Girl with a Hookah, painted in Dacca, 18th century

Ruins of the Great Caravanserai in Dhaka.

Ghulam Hamdani Mushafi, the poet first believed to have coined the name "Urdu" around 1780 AD for a language that went by a multiplicity of names before his time.

Mir Taqi Mir, an Urdu poet of the 18th century Mughal Empire

Badshahi Mosque, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Buland Darwaza in Fatehpur Sikiri, Agra, India

Lalbagh Fort aerial view in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shalimar Bagh in Srinagar, Kashmir, India

Illustration by the 17th-century Mughal artist Ustad Mansur

"Alexander Visits the Sage Plato in His Mountain Cave"; illustration by the 16th-century Indian artist Basawan, in a folio from a quintet of the 13th-century Indian poet Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Folio from Farhang-i-Jahangiri, a Persian dictionary compiled during the Mughal era.

The Mughal empire is conventionally said to have been founded in 1526 by Babur, a warrior chieftain from what today is Uzbekistan, who employed aid from the neighboring Safavid and Ottoman empires, to defeat the Sultan of Delhi, Ibrahim Lodhi, in the First Battle of Panipat, and to sweep down the plains of Upper India.

However, by this time Lodhi's empire was already crumbling, and it was actually the Rajput Confederacy which was the strongest power of Northern India under the capable rule of Rana Sanga of Mewar.

Rajasthan

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State in northern India.

Ghateshwara Mahadeva temple at the Baroli Temple Complex. The temples were built between the 10th and 11th centuries CE by the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty.

Akbar shoots the Rajput commander Jaimal using a matchlock, during the Siege of Chittor (1567–1568).

The great Indian bustard has been classed as critically endangered species since 2011.

Reclining tiger, Ranthambore National Park

Lake Palace and Jag Mandir from a distance, Lake Pichola, Udaipur.

Timeline of the Bhadla Solar Park (India) development, the World's largest photovoltaic power plants cluster in 2020

Wind turbines near Bada Bagh, Rajasthan.

Dal Bati Choorma, a traditional Rajasthani Dish

Rana Kumbha was the vanguard of the fifteenth century Rajput resurgence.<ref name="sen2">{{Cite book|last=Sen|first=Sailendra|title=A Textbook of Medieval Indian History|publisher=Primus Books|year=2013|isbn=978-9-38060-734-4|pages=116–117}}</ref>

The emperor Hemu, who rose from obscurity and briefly established himself as ruler in northern India, from Punjab to Bengal, in defiance of the warring Sur and Mughal Empires.

Maharana Udai Singh II founded Udaipur, which became the new capital of the Mewar kingdom after Chittor Fort was conquered by the Mughal emperor Akbar.

Maharana Pratap Singh, sixteenth-century Rajput ruler of Mewar, known for his defence of his realm against Mughal invasion.

Suraj Mal was ruler of Bharatpur, some contemporary historians described him as "the Plato of the Jat people" and by a modern writer as the "Jat Odysseus", because of his political sagacity, steady intellect and clear vision.<ref>R.C.Majumdar, H.C.Raychaudhury, Kalikaranjan Datta: An Advanced History of India, fourth edition, 1978, {{ISBN|0-333-90298-X}}, Page-535</ref>

Mount Abu is a popular hill station in Rajasthan.

The Jaipur Metro is an important urban transportation link

Demoiselle cranes in Khichan near Bikaner

Amber Fort has seen from the bank of Maotha Lake, Jaigarh Fort on the hills in the background

The ambitious Rana Sanga united the various Rajput clans and fought against the foreign powers in India.

Rana Sanga then tried to create an Indian empire but was defeated by the first Mughal Emperor Babur at Khanua.

The Mughal Army of Babur sacked Chanderi, capital of Medini Rao Parihar.

Medini Rai

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Medini Rai Parihar or Medini Rao (died 1528) was a vassal of Sisodia king Rana Sanga.

He joined the united Rajput Confederacy in fatal Battle of khanua with a garrison of 20,000 Rajput soldiers and headed the left wing of Rajputs to counter Babur's right wing.

Illustration of the battle from Baburnama

Battle of Chanderi

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The Battle of Chanderi or Siege of Chanderi took place in the aftermath of the Battle of Khanwa in which the Mughal Emperor Babur had defeated the Rajput Confederacy and firmly establish Mughal rule while crushing regrowing Rajput powers as the battle was fought for supremacy of Northern India between Rajputs and Mughals.

On receiving news that Rana Sanga had renewed war preparations to renew the conflict with him, Babur decided to isolate the Rana by inflicting a military defeat on one of his vassals Medini Rai who was the ruler of Malwa.

Krishnadevaraya

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Emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire, who reigned from 1509 to 1529.

A portrait of Krishnadevaraya by Portuguese traveler Domingo Paes c. 16th century

Kannada inscription, dated 1513 CE, of Krishnadevaraya at the Krishna temple in Hampi describes his victories against the Gajapati Kingdom of Odisha.

Kannada inscription dated 1524 A.D., of Krishnadeva Raya at the Anathasayana temple in Anathasayanagudi near Hampi. The temple was built in memory of his deceased son

Vitthala temple with musical pillars, Hoysala style multigonal base Hampi

Tamil inscription of Krishnadevaraya, Severappoondi

Tirumala Temple and Vaikuntam Queue Complex (semicircular building in the foreground) as seen from Srivari Padalu on Narayanagiri hill

When the Timurid king Babur invaded north India, he acknowledged Krishnadevaraya as the greatest Hindu king of India along with Rana Sanga, the king of Chittor.