The life of shivaji maharaj is on unending source of
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Cause we know actual history as opposed to Delhi centic rhetorics.
For people outside of Maharashtra :
Shivaji is robber for his campaigns on surat
Shivaji is mountain rat for his guerrilla warfare technique
Shivaji is right winger's hero as most right wing parties live on his legacy.
For people of Maharashtra:
A king who stood up to mughal tyranny.
A 16 year old boy with ambition to create swaraj (self rule).
Jaanta Raja (King who knows) understanding plight of ryot.
A king who introduced system to measure lands and hence devised system to tax according to yields.
A king who believed religions are colours in a portrait by God.
A king who respected women. Called daughter in law of sardar of Kalyan, his mother, after she was presented to him as war booty .. Stopped his own mother from following sati ritual after death of his father.
A king who inspired thousands for his concept of swaraj.
A king who did not hesitate to punish his own people when they commit mistakes. He chopped off limbs of Patil, a maratha noble for raping a peasant girl.
There are many many qualities of him which can be put forth with examples and it will help everyone understand that he isn't what he is made to look like.
You can read ‘Who was Shivaji?’ by a great communist leader Govind Pansare. Pansare has quoted facts and letters by Shivaji Maharaj to help us understand who was he.
Read that book and you will be obsessed too!
<<<P. S. There is a very interesting story which is mentioned in that book too.
One day Maharaj decided to know conditions of his subjects, so he along with few knights went on a stroll across his kingdom. They got far away from their capital. They were crossing some fields when they came across a boy, 13–14 years old.
That boy stopped them, and roared, “ Khabardar! Jar taach maruni jaal pudhe, chindhdya udwin rai rai evhdya!”(Stop right there or I will shred you all to grains). Apparently he had mistook them as foreign invaders who were marching into his king’s and his swaraj.
Most important takeaway from the story is that a 14 year old boy, who in his life has never seen Shivaji Maharaj, challenges 4 or more men for trying to enter kingdom. What inspired him to do that?
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he Is a one of the greatest king Chatrapati shivaji maharaj