Rajput Bravery: How Baisa Kirandevi Forced Akbar to Beg for Mercy
Many historians have praised Akbar's greatness but very few historians have described Akbar's lowly deeds. With his dirty intentions, Akbar used to organize the Nauroz fair in Delhi every year, in which men were prohibited from entering. Akbar used to go to this fair dressed as a woman and the woman who charmed him was brought to Akbar by the maids through deceit. One day, Maharana Pratap's niece, the daughter of his younger brother Maharaj Shakti Singh, came to see the decorations of the fair at the Nauroz fair. Her name was Baisa Kiran Devi, who was married to Prithviraj of Bikaner. On seeing the beauty of Baisa Kiran Devi, Akbar could not control himself and without thinking, he called her to the Zenana Mahal through the maids. As soon as Akbar tried to touch Baisa Kirandevi, Kiran d\Devi took out a dagger from her waist and threw Akbar down, put her foot on his chest and put the dagger on his neck and said, you lowly... wretched man, don't you know that I am with t...