Maharana Pratap never ate bread made of grass

“On one occasion his queen and his son’s wife were preparing a few cakes from the flour of the meadow grass of which one was given to each; half for the present, the rest for a future, meal. Pertap was stretched beside them pondering on his misfortunes, when a piercing cry from his daughter roused him from reflection: a wild cat had darted on the reserved portion of food, and the agony of hunger made her shrieks insupportable. Until the moment his fortitude had been unsubdued. He had beheld his sons and his kindered fall around him on the field without emotion—“For this the Rajpoot was born”; but the lamentation of his children for food “unmanned him.”  This was written by Colonel James Tod in his book Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan Part 1 (page 272-73)

We have no information how Tod got this information about Maharana Pratap that he ate bread made of meadow grass. Unfortunately, this is not a truth. This is an exaggeration of facts for the reason unknown.  Maharana Pratap was never in such a dire condition that he would ever need to eat bread made of grass.

The reality was, Akbar could never occupy the whole of the Mewar. He could only hold Chittod, Udaipur and some of the parts of Mewar while most of the Mewar was still in Maharana’s possession which was prosperous and fertile.

Gorishankar Heerachand Ojha writes in his book “History of Udaipur state part 2” (page 394), “This whole statement is an exaggeration and fabricated because Maharana never ever faced such awful circumstances. He had Kumbhalgarh in North, 90 miles long mountain region in south and east. This area was safe and secured also due to the geographical reasons. Maharana and his followers for lived there with their respective families fearlessly and comfortably. Moreover, they could move to Godwad, Idar, Sirohi and Malwa region for obtaining food. This area was full of water and greenery. There were dozens of villages and thousands of Bheels lived there. Maize, Rice were the main crop of the region and due to good number of domestic animals like cow and buffaloes milk and milk products were in abundance. The Mogul Army was in eastern part of Mewar only.” 

This whole statement is sufficient to prove that Maharana Pratap had to struggle to keep intact his position but he and his family did not ever face such a situation that they had to eat bread made of grass