His devoted followers welcomed him back as their great leader, and in the coming two years after this escape, he achieved many wars. His escape was the most thrilling and daring episode filled with very high drama, which was about to change the course of Indian history. In the year 1666 of 17 August, he and his son had themselves carried past their guards in these baskets. During the house arrest, they lived under the threat of execution.įearlessly, Shivaji Maharaj feigned illness, and therefore as atonement, he began to send out enormous baskets filled with delicious sweets that were to be distributed among the poor. In Agra, hundreds and thousands of miles from their homeland, Shivaji Maharaj and his son were both placed under house arrest. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj undertook that he and his son would attend the court of Aurangzeb at Agra to be formally accepted as Mughal vassals. The pressure that was exerted by this vast force which was also combined with the drive and tenacity of Jai Singh, very soon compelled Shivaji Maharaj to call for peace. Mirza Raja was sent along with 100 thousand men. Aurangzeb, disappointed and raged by this incident, could hardly ignore the loss, and to avenge Shivaji Maharaj, he sent out his most prominent general, Mirza Raja Jai Singh. He attacked the rich coastal town of Surat and took immense booty. After this incident, Shivaji was thought to provoke the Mughals. In this raid, he lost his one hand and his son's fingers.Įmbarrassed by this reverse, the viceroy withdrew his force. He encountered himself by carrying out a very daring and brave raid right within the encampment of the viceroy.
Overnight, Shivaji Maharaj became a daunting warlord with the possession of horses, guns, as well as ammunition of the Bijapur army.Īlarmed by the rising strength of Shivaji Maharaj, the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb ordered his viceroy of the south to march against him. He pretended to be intimidated and enticed the force deep into the difficult mountain terrains and then killed Afzal Khan at a meeting to which he had lured him by all submissive appeals.įor the time being, the handpicked troops that had been previously positioned swooped down on the unwary Bijapur army and routed it. In 1659, when the Sultan of Bijapur sent an army of around 20 thousand soldiers under the leadership of Afzal Khan to defeat him, Shivaji Maharaj intelligently defeated Afzal Khan. His depredations grew very audacious, and various minor expeditions sent to chastise him always proved to be ineffective.
His daring military skills and sternness towards the Hindus' oppression had him win many battles and administrations. They had aligned themselves with the sultans. In this process, he ruined a few of his very influential coreligionists. With this motive, Shivaji Maharaj began to seize the weaker Bijapur outposts and his followers. Dadoji taught him horse riding, archery, patta, and also several other fighting techniques after his father left for Karnataka with his second wife Tukabai. He was brought up by his mother Jijabai and also by his administrator Dadoji Kond Deo. He showed intense interest in the religious teachings, especially of the Hindu and Sufi Saints. He grew up studying Ramayana and also Mahabharata. Childhood and Early Life of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj It was a conviction that was to sustain him throughout his whole life. He was sad due to the devastating condition of the Hindus that by the age of 16 he convinced himself to be the cause of the Hindu’s freedom. He found the suppression of the Muslim rulers and the persecution of all the Hindus in the region. The ancestral estates of Shivaji Maharaj were situated in the Deccan region in the realm of Bijapur sultans. The Mughals were in north India and the Muslim sultans of Bijapur as well as of Golconda in the south of India. At that time, India was under the Muslim rulers and divided. Shivaji Maharaj who was the descendant of a line of prominent nobles was very brave and fought many wars to consolidate India. The kingdom's security was entirely based on religious tolerance and the functional integration of Brahmans, Marathas, and Prabhus. Life History of Chhatrapati Shivaji MaharajĬhhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was the founder of the Maratha kingdom of India. He was one of the bravest and marvelous rulers in the 17 th century. He was the founder of the great Maratha kingdom of India. His father Shahji Bhonsale was a great Maratha general in the army of Bijapur Sultanate and his mother Jijabai was a great devotee of religion.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj took birth into a family of bureaucrats.
He was born at Shivneri which is a hill fort in Junnar in Poona, now known as Pune. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj also spelled as Sivaji was born on 19 February 1630.
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