Battle of Chhapparghatta

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Battle of Chhapparghatta
Location : Chhapparghatta , UP Result : Sur Victory, Muhammed Shah killed in battle
Belligerents
Sur Dynasty	Bengal Sultanate
Commanders and leaders
Adil Shah Suri Hemu	Muhammed Shah ✝

Background

When Muhammad Shah of Bengal marched towards Kalpi , Adil Shah the then Sur Emperor called back his minister Hemu , who at that time had fought and defeated Ibrahim Shah Suri in two successive battle.

Battle

Hemu defeated Muhammad Shah at Chapparghatta. Adil Shah occupied Bengal and after installing Shahbaz Khan as governor there came back to Chunar which he had made his residential capital.

Aftermath

In January, 1556 Mughal Emperor Humayun died and Akbar ascended the throne.Taking advantage of the situation, Hemu marched from Gwalior to Agra which he occupied easily because the governor fled to Delhi out of fear, without offering any fight. Hemu marched to Delhi thereafter and occupied it after defeating the governor, Tardi Beg Khan in the Battle of Tughalaqabad. Encouraged by his success and being in pos­session of Delhi, Hemu assumed independence with the title of Raja Vikramaditya

See Also

• Battle Of Tughlaqabad
• Hemu
• Sur Empire

References

1. Ashirbadi Lal Srivastava (1962). Akbar the Great. Shiva Lal Agarwala. p. 10. OCLC 837892. Bairam Khan asked his royal ward to earn the title of ghazi by slaying the infidel Hemu, with his own hands. We are told by a contemporary writer, Muhammad Arif Qandh that he complied with the request and severed Hemu's head from his body. Abul Fazl's statement that he refused to kill a dying man is obviously wrong
2. Qanungo 1965, p. 448: Qanungo states that Islam Shah raised Hemu to the position that Brahmjit Gaur held under Sher Shah Suri. Brahmjit Gaur has been described as a "fort general".
3. Richards 1995, p. 13: Richards states that Hemu was a Vaishya. Others name him a Gaur Brahmin, a Dhūsar Bhargav a Dhusar who "are supposed to be a sub-division of Gaur Brahmins", a "Dhusar or Bhargava, who claim to be Gaur Brahmins", a Dhusar, a "caste of the Vaish or Baniyas, who now claim to be Bharagava Brahmins", etc.
4. Tripathi 1960, p. 177: Tripathi quotes from the Akbarnama:

   The place was strong and there was much fighting, and the father of Hemū was captured and brought alive before the Nāṣir-al-mulk. The latter called upon him to change his religion. The old man answered, "for eighty years I've worshipped my God, according to this religion. Why should I change it at this time, and why should I, merely from fear of my life, and without understanding it come into your way of worship." Pir Muḥammad treated his words as if he heard them not, and answered him with the tongue of the sword.

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