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Sher Shah took the irregular path via Didwana (instead of Bayana). Kumpa had resisted Sher Shahs advance in Shekhawati, after which Sher Shah made sure to entrench at every stop and halted in the village of Sammel in the pargana of Jaitaran, ninety kilometers east of Jodhpur. He entrenched his army with the river Sammel in front of him as a ...
The Battle of Sammel was fought near what are now Giri and Sumel villages in the Jaitaran sub-division of Rajasthan's Pali district.The belligerents were Sher Shah Suri, founder of the Muslim Sur Empire, and Rao Maldeo Rathore, the Hindu Rajput king of Marwar.
Sher Shah Suri [c] (Farid al-Din Khan; 1472 or 1486 – 22 May 1545), [1] also known by his title Sultan Adil (lit. ' the Just King '), was the ruler of Bihar from 1530 to 1540, and Sultan of Hindustan from 1540 until his death in 1545. [2] He defeated the Mughal Empire, founding the Sur Empire and establishing his rule in Delhi. The influence ...
January 4 – In India, Maldeo Rathore, King of Marwar (now part of the state of Rajasthan) is tricked by counterintelligence spread by Mughal Emperor and Afghan Shah Sher Shah Suri into departing from Jodhpur. The Battle of Sammel begins shortly afterward and is won by the Afghan and Mughal armies. [1]
Sher Shah succumbed to his wounds and died on 22 May 1545, at the age of 73 or 59. [19] [36] He was succeeded by his son, Jalal Khan, who took the title of Islam Shah Suri. [37] Sher Shah was buried in the Sher Shah Suri Tomb (122 ft high), stands in the middle of an artificial lake at Sasaram, a town on the Grand Trunk Road. The tomb finished ...
After victory in the Battle of Sammel, Khawas Khan Marwat took possession of Jodhpur and occupied the territory of Marwar from Ajmer to Mount Abu in 1544. When Hamayun fled from Agra towards Multan, Sher Shah dispatched Khawas Khan and the greater part of his army to pursue him and drive him beyond the borders of India.
When Sher Shah reached Marwar, he devised a deceptive plan. He dropped several letters addressed to Marwari soldiers asking them to defect to Delhi. This made Maldeo suspect them and order them to retreat. A few thousand soldiers still held frontier who met Sher Shah Suri at the Battle of Sammel. [63] Sher Shah won the battle and further ...
Rao Maldeo Rathore (5 December 1511 – 7 November 1562) was a king of the Rathore dynasty, who ruled the kingdom of Marwar in present day state of Rajasthan.Maldeo ascended the throne in 1531 CE, inheriting a small ancestral principality of Rathore's but after a long period of military actions against his neighbours, Maldeo swept significant territories which included parts of present day ...