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Write brief essay on Hemu Vikramaditya.

  • UPSC 2001
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Political History

Hemu, born Hemchandra in a Baniya family of Rewari, rose from grain-trade and market-supervision to become the last serious non-Mughal claimant to paramountcy in north India before Akbar's consolidation.

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  • From Market Superintendent to Sur Kingmaker
  • The Run of Victories
  • Coronation as "Vikramaditya" after the Second Battle of Delhi
  • Defeat and Death at the Second Battle of Panipat (1556)
  • Historiographical Significance

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