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Shivaji escaped from Panhala by cover of night, and as he was pursued by the enemy cavalry, his Maratha sardar Baji Prabhu Deshpande of Bandal Deshmukh, along with 300 soldiers, volunteered to fight to the death to hold back the enemy at Ghod Khind ("horse ravine") to give Shivaji and the rest of the army a chance to reach the safety of the ...
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj (1630–1680 CE), was the founder of the Maratha Empire in India. He is considered a prominent historical figure in India. A number of films, books, plays and television serials have been produced about his life and about figures associated with him.
After Shivaji's death in 1680, with the help of those treacherous courtiers, Soyarabai finally got her son, the ten-year-old prince Rajaram, seated on the vacant throne on 21 April 1680. [7] Her stepson and Shivaji's heir apparent Sambhaji , was able to remove Rajaram and Soyarabai from power with the help of Soyarabai's own brother and the ...
Shiv Jayanti, also known as Shivaji festival, is a festival and public holiday of the Indian state of Maharashtra. This festival is celebrated on February 19, celebrating the birth anniversary of Shivaji I , the first Chhatrapati of the Marathas .
After the death of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and the killing of Chhatrapati Sambhaji, Aurangzeb seized the opportunity to demolish the Maratha Empire, but Tararani pledged to Swaraj to finish Aurangzeb and took the reins of the dwindling empire in her hands as the wife of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's youngest son Rajaram.
In 1653, Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj captured this fort from Adil Shah of Bijapur and renamed it as "Vijay Durg". The original name of the fort was "Gheria" and the first fortification appears to have been constructed in 1200 during the regime of Raja Bhoj II. Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj developed Vijaydurg as an important base for Maratha ...
The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Smarak or Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Memorial is a proposed monument Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire. The statue will be located in Mumbai's Back Bay. [3] As of May 2024, construction of the monument has not yet started despite being expected to be completed by October 2022. [4]
Subodh Bhave as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj alias the Maratha kingdom's founder and a Hindu warrior king who was known for his courage and the strategies to defeat Adilshahi and the Mughals in many of his battles. [10] Sharad Kelkar as Baji Prabhu Deshpande, the commander of Shivaji who anointed his own blood on the land of Swarajya. [11]