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Source: – Chandrapida1 / Twitter. After Nizam was humbled in battle of Bhopal he formally gave up Malwa, 50 lakh cash and all territories between Yamuna and Narmada. Battle of Bhopal was turning point...
Source: – @TrueIndology / Twitter. January 14. 1761 Remember the sacrifice of 100,000 Marathas who were slaughtered in Panipat defending the country against Jihadis from Afghanistan An Indian "reformist" cleric Shah Waliullah had invited...
Courtesy: – DNA India. The first few months of the year 1689 saw the Marathas pass through their toughest time. Chhatrapati Sambhaji, who had ably led them against the Mughals for almost a decade,...
It’s indeed a privilege to be here today, and to be called all way from Pune, to speak to the select audience that has been invited here and the purpose of the talk is...
So, this point of time Aurangazeb decided, I’m going to embark on the last campaign, going to take all the Forts and established Mughal rule in Western Maharashtra. And as a result, in 1700,...
So, this is the effect of the war in the 1690s, that Marathas were able to raise really strong armies. They followed the same guerrilla warfare tactics of Hit and run, it was a...
Apart from this, there was a very daring raid by Santaji Ghorpade on Aurangazeb’s own camp. At this point of time Aurangazeb’s camp was in, the camp was at Koregaon, which is near Pune...
Source:- Soumitra Dabholkar / Twitter Tributes to Madhavrao Peshwa on his death anniversary.His will shows his concern for people and religion "The system of farming revenues is found oppressive to the ryots : it...
After doing this, after getting coronated, Chhatrapati Shivaji, embarked on a campaign to South India and he built almost an empire stretching all the way to Gingee, you can see this is the core...
Then we come to the Forts, as I mentioned how the Fort of Devagiri was fought or rather lost. And what Shivaji did was, he brought about wide range changes in how the Forts...
So Chhatrapati Shivaji instituted many administration and military reforms, which stood the Marathas, in good steadlater on. All of these are given in a book called Adnyapatra, written by Ramchandra Pant, we will talk...
The Srijan Foundation organized a talk by Aneesh Gokhale at INTACH, Lodhi Estate, Delhi. The topic of his talk was ‘Maratha – Mughal War”. Wish everyone, very Good Evening. I would like to first of all...
Source: – ‘Bakhar of Panipat’ by Raghunath Yadav (translated by Dr Uday Kulkarni and transliteration by Shri Ninadji Bedekar.) Sadashivrao Bhau's reply to Ahmed Shah Abdali "This is the paatshahi of the Hindus."#marathas #history...
Source: – Oriental Memoires by James Forbes / Google Books “”There are doubtless many alterations and of late years in the Mahratta tactics which to this campaign at that time when to besiege a...
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