1910 Hemu

1910: Hemu, who was first Adil Shah Suri's general and then the Sultan of Bengal's, was defeated and killed in the Second Battle of Panipat, in 1556 re-imagined in this 1910s bazaar-art poster in very Mughal courtly style, and glorified in Hindi, Persian (from the Akbar-namah), and English, as "the last Hindu emperor of Hindustan", with his genius certified by the Imperial Gazetteer.

Source: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1500_1599/akbar/panipat2nd/panipat2nd.html

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