Maharana Bhim Singh – About Maharana Bhim Singh's History

At this time, Mewar suffered from a hard time as they suffered from financial crises and lost all the hopes of retaining their lost territories and their status. Also, this was the time when Maharana Bhim Singh was born and became the next ruler of Mewar after his father Maharana Hamir Singh after his death. Well, He was the 67th Maharana of Mewar and also the minor one after three Maharana’s of Mewar and considered the 4th one who was minor.

Maharana Bhim Singh became the king of Mewar at an age of 10 years as he was the hire of Maharana Hamir Singh and after his death; he had the responsibility to take care of Mewar after him. He was raised by his mother and the wife of Maharana Bhim Singh named Rajmata Sardar Kunwar Jhali, and she will look after him and as he was the minor his mother take all the decisions related to him and look for all the current affairs Of Mewar on behalf of Maharana Bhim Singh. He ruled Mewar for 50 years and face many ups and downs during his reign because of Marathas and because of the internal issues and chaos in their kingdom.

When he became the ruler, Mewar already facing a great threat from Marathas and the other kings of the country and also the Mewar economy was disturbed and the farmers and the people of Mewar suffering from huge economic crises.  The Marathas get their foot on the land of India, and they robbed all the treasure of Mewar in various ways, they made Rajputs week and also attacked their economy which will lead to the fall of Marathas. Besides this, the farmers of Mewar lack of fertile land and they didn’t have pastures for feeding their animals to they fled their land.

Maharana Bhim Singh was financially week that he had to take money from other kings in order to get married. His family was also very large, and he had 32 sons. As he was very week and need support, he joined British to defeat Marathas. But this was the wrong decision of Maharana Bhim Singh as after that Britishers get control over the political affairs of Mewar and the Maharana’s of Mewar were forbidden and were not allowed to involve in any kind of political affairs. Besides this, Mewar has to pay Britishers, a part of his revenue to the British government, and he was considered lazy and irresponsible regarding their people. Maharana Bhim Singh died when he was 60 years old and after that Mewar was ruled by Britishers.