CHATRAPATHI SHIVAJI MAHARAJ

SHIVAJI BHOSALE 

MAHARAJ SHIVAJ WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 19 , 1630 AT SIHVANER IN PUNE . HIS MOTHER JIJA BHAI WAS HIS FIRST TEACHER AND HIS FATHER SAHAJI HAS A WELL KNOWN WARRIOR IN THE ARMY OF BIJAPUR KINGDOM

SHIVAJI MAHARAJ WITH HIS MOTHER
JIJABHAI 

MOTHER OF SHIVAJI MAHARAJ TAUGHT HIM THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RESPECT TOWARDS THE MOTHERLAND . DADAJI KONDA-DEV TAUGHT HIS THE LESSONS OF WAR METHODS AND PRACTICES AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE POLICES  WHICH SHOULD BE TOUGHT TO A UPCOMMING KING . 

THE MOST REMARKABLE MOMENT IN MAHARAJS LIFE IS WHEN HIS FATHER SAHAJI TOOK HIM TOO THE DARBAR  

OF KING OF BIJAPUR  ADILSHAH , HIS FATHER SAHAJI 

BOW HIS HEAD AND SALUTED ADILSHAH BUT SHIVAJI DID`NT DO THAT . AFTER COMMING TO PUNE HE THOUGHT THAT TO HAVE A OWN COUNTRY WITHOUT THE RULE OF MUGHALS . 

AFTER FEW YEARS SHIVAJI PREPAIRED A PERFECT ARMY AND TOOK OATH AT RIRASHWAR WHICH IS CALLED `OATH OF FREEDOM`. AND THEN ON RAIRESHWAR IS KNOWN AS BIRTHPLACE OF SWARAJYA. 

ONE OF THE WARS OF SHIVAJI WAS BATTLE OF SURAT WHICH WAS FOUGHT ON 5TH JANUARY 1664 , WITH 10000 ARMY . MARTHAS WON THAT WAR AND CONQUERED TORNA FORT . 

SHIVAJI AT WAR

BATTLE OF KOLHAPUR  WAS A LAND BATTLE THAT TOOK PLACE ON  28 DECEMBER  1659 NEAR THE CITY OF KOLHAPUR, IN MAHARASTRA BETWEEN THE MARATHA KING SHIVAJI AND ADILSHAH FORCES

BATTLE OF SIMHAGAD WAS THE WAR BETWEEN THE TRUSTED ZUBEDAAR (THE CHIEF OF THE PART OF ARMY ) TANHAJI MALUSARE AND THE MUGHAL REPRESENTATIVE UDHAY BHAN RATHODE ON 4 FEBRUARY 1670 . 

IN 1674 SHIVAJI MAHARAJ HAS CORONATED AS KING OF MARATHA KNGDOM AS CHATRAPATHI SHIVAJI MAHARAJ.

SHIVAJI MAHARAJS CORONATION

AFTER BATTLE OF PRATAPGHAD  IN 1659 , A CUNNING KING OD BIJAPUR SENT AFZAL KHAN FOR TREATY . AFZAL KHAN HUGGED SHIVAJI AND TRIED TO STAB HIM WITH KNIFE . BIT SHIVAJI WAS VERY CLEVER HE WORE AN IRON ARMOR . SHIVAJI WAS SAFE AND SHIVAJI STABED AFZALKHAN WITH IS TIGER NAILS . AFZAL KHAN DIED ON 20 NOVEMBER 1659. 

`SHIVAJI` FATHER OF INDIAN NAVY. 

HE IS THE FATHER OF INDIAN NAVY . SHIVAJI WAS AGAINST COW SLAUGHTERING . THEN AND NOW ALSO IN MAHARASTRA  ANY CATTLE MEAT IS BANNED STRICTLY . 

BATTLE OF SANGAMMER WAS THE LAST BATTLE OF SHIVAJI MAHARAJ . AFTER THAT ON 3 APRLI 1680 SHIVAJI WAS DIED THROUGH POISON BY HIS SECOND WIFE SOYARABAI KILLED HIM THROUGH POISONUING HIM TO MAKE HIS 10 YEAR OLD SON RAJARAM AS THE SUCCESSOR OF SHIVAJI . SHIVAJI DIED AT RAIGHAD .

HIS CORPSE WAS EROTED AT RAIGHAD . THE GREAT KING OF MARATHA . WE SALUTE YOU . 

`JAI BHAVANI , JAI SHIVAJI`

`MAHARAJ SHIV CHATRAPATHI KI JAI HO`

SHIVAJI MAHARAJ