Nice one. Mention of more than one place, absolutely encourages people to make a visit to the sites.

Would it be possible for you to get one important observation clarified?
When we read history none of the Kings or Emperors have a singular name e.g, Akbar Badshah, Chandragupta Maurya, Emperor Ashok etc; etc;

Why has the history recorded Raja Vikramaditya Hemraj as Hemu? Was it a victorious 16 yr old Badshah Jalaluddin who named his opponent as Hemu?
History is written by the victors. So are we following history written by the Mughals as they saw it? Or is Raja Hemu altogether different from Raja Vikramaditya Hemraj?

If he is indeed Raja Vikramaditya Hemraj, then we are doing a disservice to the legacy of a valiant King.

Hemu or Hem Chandra Vikramaditya is a forgotten and discarted Hindu King of medieval times. Unfortunately, in free india also he is not given any recognition. A page on wikipedia gives his achievments along with several references from reputed historians. If he has really won 22 battles from Panjab to Bengal and has defeated Akbar's forces at Agra and Delhi before establishing 'Hindu Raj' in North India as a Vikramaditya king, he definitely deserves more respect and recognition by Govt. of India. In fact Delhi has a road named after every foreign 'invader',like Babur, Humanyun, Akbar, Aurangzeb etc. irrespective of what they did to 'Bhartiya Sanskriti', its people, temples etc.,
but the great Hindu warrior 'Hemu' who sacrificed his life for saving 'Bhartiya Sanskriti' and establishing 'Hindu Raj' in India is not considered worthwhile by the Indian Govt. This only reflects the pseudo-secularism of the Govt.
Hemu was a secular king. He had lead a combined Hindu and Afghan army, and had carried forward a tradition of secularism initiated by Sher Shah Suri,one of the most successful rulers of medieval period in North India.

Panipat Museum Society has also neglected Hemu. The society has raised a memorial at Kala Amb in Panipat of 'First Battle of Panipat', in which both the participants were foreigners. There is no memorial for native king Hemu, who fought against foreign king Akbar. This rarely happens in a free country.

Raja Hemu was the prime minister for Sher Shah Suri, Islam Shah and Adil Shah Suri. These were Afghan kings and their forces were considered natives. Hindus and Afghans were considered native Bharatiyas and were fighting against the Mughal invaders. Raja Hemu, son of a priest who was prosecuted by the islamists - hence broke the caste barrier and switched to trading - rose from selling salt to the Suri Dynasties army to being commander and then prime minister. Adil Shah Suri's ascent to throne was opposed by some Afghan rulers and they rebelled against him. At that time Hemchandra, Prime minister of Adil Shah Suri was in Bengal. He started from there and reached Punjab winning 22 battles in the way and even overthrew Mughals from Delhi. He had almost all of his courtiers as muslims and was secular to the T.
Hemchandra was Sindhi and Akbar, the secular Great's forces carried atrocities to make sindhis accept islam or flee, if not die. Hence most of Sindhi community much like the Kashmiri's - who settled in Mewar and we now know them as Marwari's - had to lose land & agriculture as their job and had to turn to trading as an occupation.
Indian history textbooks are more a followers of foreign legacy than being a reflection of history.

Nice article. It is good to read these things and more important it should be known by the present generation. Very little people know about Native history.

Panipat has some more interesting heritage sites, which you have not listed here. One is a Complex at village Saundhapur, on Panipat-Jind road some 5 KMs from NH1. At this site first Babur had camped in 1526 before Ist Battle of Panipat and then Akbar-Bairam Khan had put up their camp in 1556 before 2nd Battle of Panipat. The core of camp site, in some 15 acres consisted of a Pond lined/constructed with Lakhori bricks, a small mosque. While mosque is still in good condition, the water body is encroached upon and is in bad shape. Another structure in the complex is a Cenotaph (Chattri) also called 'Khanka' in Persian constructed in the memory of the beheaded hindu king 'Hemu' or Hem Chandra Vikramaditya after he got killed in the second battle of Panipat. This Cenotaph constructed in Afghan and Hindu architecture is also now under encroachment by some local people.

With Haryana Govt., Heritage is a hated word. Different period Heritage, like Vedic (10,000 years old) Pre Harrapan or should we call Indus Civilisation, Mahabharat period, and of later period all is languishing and getting destroyed slowly throughout the state.

You mentioned 'Panipat Wars Memorial Society'. It is a high powered committee chaired by Governor of Haryana and has representatives from Haryana Govt. and INTACH too. But somehow this museum also could not become popular. It is located in a old Rest House in a remote area, not well connected. It has more displays of Babur and Akbar than Hemu, a local Haryanvi and Marhattas, the native warriors.

Till State Govt. does not have proper legislations to safeguard its Heritage and involve State beauraucracy in Heritage care, future remains bleek for Haryana State Heritage.

Thanks to the author for reminding the significance of Panipat battles in Indian history. Is it not possible for GOI or Haryana to erect monuments like the Waterloo Monuments outside Brussels? Like Waterloo, Panipat changed not only the history but also religous composition, culture and life styles. This will also promote tourism, both national as well as international.