Veerangana Rampyari Gurjar
As soon as we take the name of Timur, the face of a ruthless and terrible devil comes in front of us who used to make a mountain of heads of lakhs of Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and celebrate bloody celebrations by dancing around it. It is said that Timur Langra had committed so many murders that the world's population had decreased by 3 percent. In the year 1398, Timur, who attacked India, had spread so much barbarism that the soul trembles at the mere description of it. But there was such a heroine of India who not only responded to Taimur the lame in the war in his own language, but fearing the fighting skills of this heroine, Timur the lame had to leave the campaign of conquest of India and run away. The name of that Veerbala Gurjar Kshatrani was Rampyari Gurjar.
Rampyari Gurjar was fearless and stubborn since childhood
Born in the Gurjar family of Saharanpur, a descendant of Shri Ram's Anuj Lakshman, Rampyari was fearless and stubborn since childhood. Rampyari, who loved men's costumes, wanted to become a wrestler and used to ask questions to her mother about this every day and exercise regularly. By the time she was young, Rampyari had also become proficient in combat skills. Discussions of his intelligence and fighting skills were in all the surrounding areas.
The main aim of Taimur was to hoist the flag of Islam in India
Before the Islamic invasion, Samarkand was a Buddhist kingdom. Then Samarkand was ruled by Muslims. In the year 1398, the cruel invader of the same Samarkand, Timur Langra, defeated Nasiruddin Tughlaq by attacking Bharatvarsh and celebrated the bloody victory of the victory by killing lakhs of people in Delhi by making a mountain of their heads. British historian Vincent A Smith wrote in his book 'The Oxford History of India:From the Earliest Times to the End of 1911' that the main objective of Timur's campaign in India was to destroy the Sanatan community and hoist the flag of Islam in India. .
Rampyari Gurjar became the commander of the women soldiers' contingent
According to the strategy, 80 thousand male warriors were included in the army and Jograj Singh Gurjar became the head of this army and Harvir Singh Gulia became the commander. Along with this, a contingent of 40 thousand women soldiers was also prepared and the war-skilled, Paramvir Rampyari Gurjar was made the general of this women soldiers. 500 young cavalrymen were systematically employed to spy on Timur's army, to learn about his plans and future attacks.
Veer Rampyari Gurjar pledged to give his life by fighting the enemy for the defense of the country. Rampyari Gurjar also had the responsibility of training and supervising the military of 40,000 rural women led by Jograj. He also had four co-workers, whose names were Hardai Jat, Devi Kaur Rajput, Chandran Brahmin and Ramdai Tyagi. These 40,000 women included warriors from Gujjars, Jats, Ahirs, Rajputs, Harijans, Valmikis, Tyagis and other brave castes. There were also many such women among them, who had never even seen the face of the weapon, but she could not stop herself at the call of Rampyari. The young men and women of all the villages of the Jat region used to gather at the village arena every evening under the protection of their leader and practiced exercise, Malla Yudh and Yudh Vidya.
The day of war is finally near
At last the day of war drew near. According to the information of the spies, Timur Lang was marching towards Meerut with his huge army. All one lakh 20 thousand men and women soldiers were only waiting for the call of war from Mahabali Jograj Singh Gurjar. Jograj Singh Gurjar said, “Our nation has been bled by the atrocities of Timur. Warriors, arise and do not delay even for a moment. Fight the enemies and drive them out of our motherland”.
All the warriors took an oath that they would not disobey the orders of their military chief under any circumstances, and they would not sit down until Timur and his army were driven out of the land of India.
Rampyari Gurjar prepared three units of his army
Rampyari Gurjar made three units of his army. While some women had the responsibility of arranging food and camp for the soldiers, some women took the lead in providing necessary arms and ration to the warriors fighting on the battlefield. Apart from this, Rampyari Gurjar instructed another contingent of women to attack the ration of the enemy army, due to which the enemy would not only have a shortage of food, but gradually their morale would also break down, come to the same troop to rest. There was also the burden of attacking the enemies.
This war is also mentioned in 'Zafarnama' composed by Iranian historian Sharifuddin Ali Yazidi. 20 thousand Hindu warriors of Mahapanayat attacked Timur's army at the time when he was about to leave for Meerut from Delhi and killed more than 9 thousand enemies in the night itself. Deranged in anger, Timur set out towards Meerut, but here too he was disappointed. The road by which Timur was about to attack Meerut, the entire route and all the villages situated on it were deserted because according to the plan, people had already left the town and village with valuables and food water.
Teimur was helpless in front of the brave army of Rampyari Gurjar and mighty Jograj Gurjar
This made Timur's army impatient and before he could understand anything, the Hindu warriors suddenly attacked him. This brave army did not even give an opportunity to the enemies to recover and the strategy was such that Timur could not do anything. During the day the fighters of Mahabali Jograj Singh Gurjar would attack his army and at night for a few moments of rest, Rampyari Gurjar and other heroines would attack their camps. The attack of Rampyari's army was so precise and quick that they were cut like carrots and radishes and those who survived became deranged due to not sleeping the whole night. This invasion of women only weakened the spirit of Jihad within Timur's army.
Frustrated with a semi-deranged, exhausted and wounded army, Timur and his army were finally driven out from Meerut towards Haridwar. But here also the army again suddenly attacked them and this time Timur's army was forced to leave the field and run away. In this war, Veer Harveer Singh Gulia, shocking everyone, attacked Timur directly and pierced his chest with his spear.
Taimur's bodyguards immediately broke down on Harveer but Harveer had done his job by then. Where Harveer attained martyrdom in that battlefield itself, Timur could never recover from that wound and eventually he died in 1405 due to increasing infection in the same wound. Timur, who had come here with an army of lakhs for the purpose of conquering India, somehow managed to escape from India with only a few thousand soldiers.
Even today, Indian women need to become Dheer, Veer and Randhir like Rampyari Gurjar so that they can face the enemies inside and outside the country. Salute to such a brave Bahadur Bala!