Bhamashah was a remarkable character of India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n history who gave his whole wealth to Maharana Pratap, the ruler of Mewar

Mewar

Mewar is a region of south-central Rajasthan state in western India. It includes the present-day districts of Pratapgarh, Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Rajsamand, Udaipur, Dungarpur, Banswara and some of the part of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. The region was for centuries a Rajput kingdom that later...

, to fight Mughal

Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire ,‎ or Mogul Empire in traditional English usage, was an imperial power from the Indian Subcontinent. The Mughal emperors were descendants of the Timurids...

 Emperor Akbar. He set up an example of love and sacrifice for the country of highest order.

After battle of Haldighati

Haldighati

Haldighati is a mountain pass in the Aravalli Range of Rajasthan in western India. It connects Rajsamand and Pali districts, 40 kilometres from Udaipur...

  Maharana Pratap had no resources at all to carry on the fight. Seth Bhamashah then offered his whole wealth to Maharana. With this help Maharana could organise Bhil army and carried on the fight to preserve the independence.

Bhamashah was born in 1547 and belonged to Kawediya gotra

Gotra

In the Hindu society, the term Gotra broadly refers to people who are descendants in an unbroken male line from a common male ancestor. Panini defines gotra for grammatical purposes as apatyam pautraprabhrti gotram , which means "the word gotra denotes the progeny beginning with the son's son"...

 in the Oswal

Oswal

The Oswal are a social group of people from the Indian States of Rajasthan and Punjab. Oswals are primarily adherents of Svetambara Jainism, but a few are Digambaras and some are Hindu adherents of Vaishnavism....

 vaishy community, a business community.His father Bharmal was qiledar of Ranthambore fort appointed by Rana Sanga

Rana Sanga

-Historical Fact:Maharana Sangram Singh was the ruler of Mewar state, a region lying within the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan, a desert region, between 1509 and 1527. He was a scion of the Sisodia clan of Suryavanshi Rajputs...

 and was later prime minister under Maharana Udai Singh

Maharana Udai Singh

Maharana Udai Singh was a king of Mewar and the founder of the city of Udaipur in the present day Rajasthan state of India. He was the 53rd ruler of the Mewar dynasty. He was the fourth and posthumous son of Maharana Sangram Singh and Rani Karmavati, a princess of Bundi.-Early life:Udai Singh was...

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Bhamashah was chief and prime minister under Maharana Udai Singh and Maharana Pratap. He along with his younger brother Tarachand fought in several battles for Mewar. Bhamashah died in 1600.

There is a memorial in Udaipur

Udaipur, Rajasthan

Udaipur , also known as the City of Lakes, is a city, a Municipal Council and the administrative headquarters of the Udaipur district in the state of Rajasthan in western India. It is located southwest of the state capital, Jaipur, west of Kota, and northeast from Ahmedabad...

in honour of the great patriot.

A series of books written on the history of Rajasthan (incl. Mevaar, Marvaad) by the great Gujarati author late shri Harilal Upadhyay. He wrote one entire book on this great patriot.

Descendants of BhamaShah Kawediya also served as prime ministers of the Maharanas of Udaipur for a few generations. His descendants still live in Udaipur.

• Book Name: Deshgaurav Bhamashah
• Language: Gujarati
• Category: Historical Novel
• Author: Late Shri Harilal Upadhdyay
• Site Link: www.harilalupadhyay.org