Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was born, lived, fought and won battles against religious and social oppression in the 17th century Bharat or India. He was a shining star in the Indian firmament and is renowned as a champion of the downtrodden and depressed masses. He was and continues to be an icon for the classes and masses alike and is seen as a rallying point for peasants oppressed by foreign rulers, Pathans and Moghuls alike. Sexually exploited women found in Shivaji Raje a protector, a benefactor and flocked to his Hindavi Swaraj to find solace and feel liberated under his saffron flag.
RISE AND RISE OF A PATRIOT
The teenager Shiva had seen the kingdoms of Bijapur and Golconda in the Deccan as agents of aggression who mercilessly 
sucked the blood of the commoners and never spared their women the ignominy of rape, loot and plunder. The morale of the common man was in his boots. He and his family were down in dumps and did not know how to hold their heads high and live a life of human dignity. Shivaji chose to champion the cause of the common man against oppression of rulers of foreign origin and he used the might of his sword, Bhavani, to exterminate the oppressors who rode high horses and commanded the superior strength of the state of Bijapur. Shivaji showed his qualities of leadership and galvanized the peasants, workers, artisans, clerics and what have you into an army of patriots out to measure swords with cruel chieftains like Afzal Khan and others of his ilk. The morale of Shivaji’s ragtag army was sky high. Never mind the home made weaponry pitted against big guns of the Sultan of Bijapur. Never mind the high horses of the State against whom the hill ponies of peasant soldiers were determined to fight. It was love of Swadesh, love of the oppressed kith and kin, it was the fire raging in their hearts and minds exhorting them to restore the honour of their women and motherland that gave them the moral armour to defend against the heavy armaments of the oppressive state.
The Patriotism of a high order fired their imagination to devise new strategy to defeat the seemingly superior enemy who was morally weak. A life of ease and comfort, debauchery of the lowest order had weakened the moral fibre of the kings and captains of foreign origin. They were just waiting to be felled by a man of high moral calibre fired with a sense of deep patriotism like Shivaji. The man of the masses just did that and drove the last nail into their coffins.
AFZAL KHAN BITES DUST
The tall, hefty and well built man who commanded a reputation of being invincible in combat named Afzal Khan took upon himself to tame Shivaji, son of Shahaji, another warrior-general of the Bijapur durbar who had told the Sultan that he had no control on the military exploits and victories of his son, Shivaji. Afzal was a much married man and had a harem of countless concubines. A superstitious man that he was, he did crystal gazing and had a premonition that he would not return alive after a confrontation with the rising star of the house of Bhosles. He, therefore, killed all his wives and concubines to prevent them falling a prey to the lust of other Pathan nobles of the Bijapur durbar. It showed that his morale was sinking.
A wily and crafty man that he was, Afzal Khan contrived to kill Shivaji while embracing him, son of a fellow noble man. At the pre-determined place on a no man’s land on the boundary of the new State of Shivaji and the Bijapur durbar, the two men met with just two aides each. Their armies were left far behind. The tall Khan was sarcastic bordering abusive from the word go. He asked Shivaji to come close to him for a deep hug. On the pretext of embracing Shivaji, a short statured man, Khan tried to strangle him with all the force at his command. Shivaji later told his Guru, Samarth Guru Ramdas, that for a few moments there was darkness in his eyes and he was about to faint owing to strangulation attempt of Khan but he suddenly gained strength on remembering Maa Bhavani and collected his wits to counterattack. Shivaji used his iron claws and ploughed through the abdomen of Khan. As his intestines were badly damaged, his iron fist hold on Shivaji’s neck loosened and weakened by profuse bleeding Khan fell down. His men put him into a palanquin and tried to flee. Shivaji’s Maratha captains who were there as armed escorts fell on the Khan’s aides, beheaded them and eventually beheaded Afzal Khan too.
The Maratha guns fired salvos to indicate that the battle has been joined and it is time to attack Khan’s army. On seeing a headless dead khan, his army ran helter skelter and the Maratha army of Shivaji carried the day. They seized so much munitions of war, war horses and precious stones, not counting gold and silver from the Bijapur camp that it was enough to finance many a campaign of Shivaji against Bijapur in the coming years. However, no general of the Bijapur army was prepared to lead a campaign against Shivaji after learning what happened to old war veteran Afzal Khan.
The news of Shivaji humbling Afzal Khan and despatching him to the next world enhanced Shivaji’s military reputation and morale of his Maratha army was sky high. The Bijapur army sued for peace and recognised Shivaji as a ruler of the territory under his military control.
THE MUGHULS STEP IN
Shivaji’s military victories in the Deccan made the Mughals sit back and take stock of the situation afresh. It was decided by Aurangzeb, the sitting king who had imprisoned his father Shah Jehan and killed brothers like Dara Shikoh to ascend the throne of Delhi, to despatch a large composite army under the command of his maternal uncle, Shaista Khan to subdue the Marathas. 
The Mughals had initial success and the Marathas drew them into the heartland before launching a counter-attack. Shaista Khan encamped in Pune and chose to live in the Lal Mahal that originally belonged to Shivaji. The latter decided to launch a daring attack and beard the Mughal lion in his own den.
One fine evening a small chosen army of the Marathas under the command of Shivaji himself gained an entry into Pune as the Deccan sepoys meant to replace the Mughals on night duty. As the night fell, Shivaji did the daring act of attacking Lal Mahal where Shaista Khan was living with his Begums. Shivaji entered their bedroom but in the commotion Shaista Khan woke up and tried to flee through the window. His Begum put out the light. Shivaji still attacked Shaista Khan and cut all his fingers with which he was holding the window sill. Having driven the point home, the Marathas returned to their base unhindered and without any loss of life. The Mughal emperor could not bear this ignominy and recalled Shaista Khan to Delhi for rest and recuperation.
SAWAI JAI SINGH MADE A TREATY
Aurangzeb put into practice the policy of divide and rule the Hindu population of Hindustan. He deputed his relative by marriage 
the ruler of Jaipur, Raja Sawai Jai Singh to tame the lion of the Deccan. Shivaji wrote a poignant letter to Jai Singh imploring him not to shed the Hindu blood for a Muslim ruler. Had Jai Singh come on his own as a Hindu King, Shivaji would not have opposed him in battle but met him, received him as a brother but now that he was an employee of a foreign invader, Shivaji had no option but to oppose him on the battle field. Shivaji knew that it would be an exercise in futility to oppose a battle-tested general like Jai Singh and,therefore, sued for peace. Raja Jai Singh requested Shivaji to go to Agra and meet the Mughal emperor and no harm would be done to him as a Rajput ruler gives his word of honour to protect him in Agra. His son, Ram Singh would keep Shivaji and his son, Sambhaji out of harm’s way.
However, wily Aurangzeb had different designs to do the short shrift of the Maratha King. Ram Singh learnt of the devilish design of Aurangzeb and advised Shivaji to flee from the palace like prison and return to the Deccan. It is a recorded history that both Shivaji and Sambhaji succeeded in coming out of the Mughal trap and restablished his sway on the territories won by Raja Jai Singh who was later poisoned by Aurangzeb’s men. How ungrateful was Aurangzeb, that is not difficult to fathom.
CORONATION THE GRAND FINALE
Shivaji had had a bad patch in life. He was surrounded by the enemies on all sides. On his return from the Mughal incarceration, his authority as a supreme ruler and unchallenged monarch required to be re- established. Notwithstanding challenges thrown by the Mughals and Pathans , Shivaji planned to hold his coronation ceremony in a grand manner. He would be the first Hindu king after the loss of the mighty Vijainagar empire to be addressed as a crowned king. The Morale of his army and the people at large would touch the sky again. Mata Jijabai, the mentor and philosopher guide of her son, Shivaji too wished to see him a crowned king. The coronation would be a psychological victory for the Hindu King of the Hindavi Swaraj where no permission would be asked for from the Delhi throne. Indeed it was a master stroke of political and diplomatic strategy of Shivaji.
The Coronation ceremony itself was a grand spectacle. On the Trayodashi, Shukla Paksh of Jyeshtha,Vikrami 1731 samvat was chosen by the pundits as the auspicious day of coronation. The great Vedic Pundit, Gaga Bhatt was invited from Varanasi to preside over the Vedic Coronation ceremony and he did a brilliant job of it. His presence as the presiding purohit of the Rajayabhishek and his declaration of the great Maratha ruler as “KSHATTRIYA KULWANT SIMHSANADHISHWAR CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI MAHARAJ” PUT THE SEAL OF AUTHORITY ON THE CO
RONATION.
A large number of men and women, both Indian and foreigner, had assembled at Fort Raigad, the capital of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s Hindavi Swaraj. They all went ecstatic with joy when the Ved mantras were recited by the group of purohits under mahapundit Gaga Bhatt. Water brought from seven pious rivers of Bharat, indicating unity of the country from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and Kamrup to Kutch,mingled with water brought from the seven seas was sprinkled on the anointment ceremony of the Chhatrapati. An umbrella, crimson and gold, was held above the head of the ruler to be crowned, and the title of Chhatrapati was conferred on him by the High Priest. The sea water brought and sprinkled on the Chhatrapati was a symbol of his dream come true when Shivaji became the first king of India to raise a full- fledged Navy under Admiral Angre.
As the High Priest solemnly anointed the Chhatrapati, in the midst of recitation of Ved mantras, singing of devotional songs and sound of traditional music, Guns boomed from all the forts located in the Hindavi Swaraj simultaneously. The Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj became a laudatory landmark in the annals of India. The Hindus now held their heads high and walked erect as they lived and worked under the protective umbrella of a crowned king, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj who had vowed to protect and defend the Hindu Dharma till his last breath. He lived up to the high ideals and never let down his people, the common man for whose defence and betterment he had drawn the sword out of the sheath. Shivaji had not only brought a sense of unity and solidarity among his people but always protected the women and never allowed anyone to play with the honour of women folk. Thus the common man was well protected. From this security had flown prosperity.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was indeed greatest of the great.
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There are more than 6 billion people in the world, but let's round that to an even 6 billion. What would happen if all these people were forced to become Islamists. Would there be peace as so many nitwits are claiming? Hell no!! All hell would break loose if everyone were Islamists. Immediately all women, about 3 billion, would be relegated to second class status. Immediately they would lose many rights. Okay Muslim Boys, who claim that there would be peace if the whole world were Islamic, where is the peace for these women if they lost many of their right? Don't evade, Muslim Boys, and I'll read your comments. Evade and I hope your words are thrown into the sewer.
There is more: If the whole world turned to Islamland, about 3 billion women would be subjected to that Filthy Animal Shariah. That means that sadistic Muslim males would sharpen their knives and then start torturing women by cutting off their clitorises. Okay, sadistic Muslim Boys, where is the peace of Islam for these women in this instance? Remember, no evasion, otherwise your meaningless words will be taken to the sewer, and rightly so.
Imagine, 3 billion women subjected to torture, cruelty and grave injustice, and running around without a clitoris, and all because of a filthy false prophet called Muhammad. Shame on Filthy Animal Shariah. Shame on paedophile, whoremonger Muhammad. Shame on sadistic Muslim Boys.
At present, Filthy Animal Shariah and sadistic Muslims have taken advantage of about 140 million women and little girls. That's how many are running around without a clitoris. How would you Muslim Boys like it if you had your testicles chopped off. That's how little girls and women without a clitoris feel today. Shame on Filthy Animal Shariah; shame on filthy false prophet Muhammad; shame on brutal, sadistic Muslim Boys.
Let's go to Muslim Suicide Bombers. At present only stupid Muslims become Suicide Bombers. About 5 or 6 of them blow up themselves in the middle of a crowd to kill, get this, other Muslims. That's right; Muslim Suicide Bombers murder mostly other Muslims because these other Muslims, according to their twisted Muslim brains, are infidels. At least 100 or 200 Muslims would blow up themselves because now the whole world is Muslim. Okay Muslim Boys, where is the peace of Islam here? Shame on you stupid, sadistic Muslim Boys who believe in the stupid, liar, paedophile Muhammad.
At present, Muslim sects are warring other Muslim sects. Imagine if the population of Muslims increased to 6 billion. Wars would increase dramatically. Muslim Boys, are you beginning to get the picture of the stupid "Religion of Peace"? Yes, where is your peace if everyone became Muslim? Ha, Ha, Ha. You can't answer because you haven't matured to an adult with a human brain.
Imagine if the whole world became Muslim. More Honor Killings; more lashing of little girls trying to escape uncontrolled, depraved Muslim male sex perverts that are trying to force the little girls to "marry" them, and then get raped; more legal wife beating; more polygamy and consequently more adultery; more hurt feelings and injustices for women; more murders of apostates trying to escape from criminal activity of Islamism; more chopping off of hands, feet, and gouging out eyes of petty thieves; more murders of little girls trying to get an education; more burqas; more cruelty and barbarism; more tortures; more legalized rape of little girls; more death and destruction. Shame on you cruel Muslim Boys.
So would we have peace if the whole world were Islamic? Don't be so stupid, Muslim Boys. You'd better grow a human brain so that you can think straight.
WE MUST DESTROY THE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY OF ISLAMISM BEFORE THE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY OF ISLAMISM DESTROYS US AND THE FEW GOOD MUSLIMS THAT ARE TRYING TO ESCAPE THE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY OF ISLAMISM.
Has anyone ever noticed that the better women are treated in a culture or country, the more prosperous they are?
Where women are greatly oppressed there is ignorance, poverty and much anguish. The men-folk fare very badly.
Too bad some guys haven't the brains to notice.
Dear Sir, it was a treat toread the article on your website. The words are indeed stirring and the pictures are appropriate highlighting the events. Imagine you got hold of correct pictures to illustrate Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's life, very commendable indeed.
What impressed me most is the respect shown by the great Hindu King to women of all faiths, including Muslims. Let the Islamist terrorists learn a lesson from their arch enemy. The great King returned women of Islamic faith to their households after their male protectors had abandoned them to be captured by the horsemen of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
You write a very entertaining and informative piece about India’s history.
The morality, respect for women and for human dignity found in Chhatrapati Shivaji are completely missing in Muslim behaviour.
Many people on this site have different viewpoints, but I maintain that Islam is the workings of Satan. Pure and Simple. In the Bible when describing the behaviour of the Antichrist in Daniel 11:37 it states “he shall have no respect to the gods of his ancestors, or to the one beloved by women”.
Allah in Islam treats women like domestic animals (according to the great Islamic philosopher Averroes).
As waterwillows states, Muslims belittle half of their population and will always be the losers for this oversight.
I read recently where India now has a Muslim population of 161 million which makes them the second largest Muslim country in the world.
India needs a few more like Chhatrapati Shivaji in the coming years.
For me as a person who loves Hindu art, science and mathematics, I cry for what was destroyed and appropriated and for the great destruction and interruption to India’s development. When you think of the mass slaughter that actually reduced the population by millions, smashed temples and leaning centres, took India’s wealth –coins, religious articles, furniture, grain,...everything..the mass enslavement and finally occupation and deprivation under Islam for centuries. I tried to write a summary in my slavery series and noted Shivaji briefy in Islam’s jihad against India 16th -21st century: part K in Islam’s genocidal slavery: listing his protection of women, his freedom of religion, his ideal of employment without discrimination and the fact that he didn’t defile mosques etc yet his Muslim opponents were told by Aurangzeb to enter Maratha territory for --
“wasting the villages, slaying the people without pity and plundering them to the extreme”
He displayed the alternative to Islam’s depravity.
Greg –actually Shah Jahan (1628-5
-Akbar’s grandson built the Taj Mahal. He was a vile man who practised INCEST with his daughters Chamani and Jahanara despite having 5,000 concubines and multiple wives: He took massive taxes from peasants forced to the most desperate state. He sadistically slaughtered (including killing his male relations) and forced conversions, raped and enslaved. Gives a whole new perspective on the falsely sold Taj Mahal! Aurangzeb came next.
161 million muslims..wow thought most of them went to paki when the big exchange happened.
Feel sorry for India then,as seems they will be over run again by muslims.Or they need to stand up before history repeats itself and they are agan under the thumb of Islam..
Best wishes to them...
i AM INDEED DELIGHTED TO READ COMMENTS OF FRIENDS FROM AUSTRALIA AND INDIA ON THE ARTICLE CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI MAHARAJ . IAM INDEED GRATEFUL TO THE MANAGERS OF THIS WEBSITE FOR ENCOURAGING INDEPENDENT MINDED PEOPLE TO JOIN HANDS TO FIGHT AGAINST ISLAMIST TERROR.
WE MUST ELIMINATE THEM BEFORE THEY GET US.
MIND IS THE MAN. LET US INFLUENCE THE FENCE SITTERS AND PACIFISTS TO JOIN THE BATTLE. WE MAY DO SO THROUGH WRITINGS AND SPEECHES AND BY GETTING HOLD OF THE MEDIA-BOTH PRINT AND ELECTRONIC.
THANKS INDEED AND REGARDS. CHITRANJAN SAWANT.
AUM.
BAN BURQA TO SAVE HUMANITY
By Chitranjan Sawant
The other day I was in Hyderabad, an old Muslim city in South India. I saw a long line of Muslim women covered in black from head to toe buying bangles. My taxi driver, a local Muslim volunteered information that the young girl students and pretty housewives who wear modern make up do not wish to drape themselves in this obnoxious covering. It hides the beauty that they enhance with costly cosmetic. On my query why do they go against their own wishes, he said that husbands and other male members of the household force them to wear BURQA when women cross the threshold of the house.
Muslim women live under the tyrannical diktat of the Muslim male. it is the duty of the human rights activists to agitate against this oppression.
Islam has no provision for wrapping the whole female body in a burqa. The holy book enjoins on women to dress modestly. Period.
The history records that criminals and terrorists hide from the police by wearing a burqa. Many bogus voters in elections in India wear Burqa to hide the identity and cast bogus votes to swing the results in favour of Islamist terrorism.
Now, the Supreme Court of India has ordered that all election identity cards will be made for both men and women with their faces open so that election officials may identify them. Wearing a Burqa by bogus voters, men and women, vitiates an election system. BURQA CLAD WOMEN MUST NOT BE PERMITTED TO ENTER THE ELECTION BOOTH AS THEIR INTENTION IS TO CHEAT AND CAST BOGUS VOTES.
History recalls that quite a few Muslim soldiers entered into Hindu forts by making a request for asylum for their women but by entering forts by cheating captured them at night fall. Moral of the story is "NEVER GIVE ASSYLUM TO BURQA CLAD WOMEN BECAUSE HOODLUMS MAY MISUSE IT BY WEARING A BURQA AND ENTERING SENSITIVE PLACES TO SUBVERT RULE OF LAW."History of India has recorded such surreptitious entries in impregnable forts like Rohtas Garh.
It is strange that Muslim men insist that their women NOT be asked to lift the veil to be identified. Thus they encourage subversion of rule of law.
DOUBLE STANDARDS OF MORALITY
Allow me to bring in the story of perverted mind of a man who masquerades as an artist. He paints Muslim women fully covered but Hindu goddesses in the nude. Is it morality? Morality of the Burqa culture indeed!
The said man of perverted mind has not been permitted to enter India because he offended the religious sentiments of the Hindus, the majority community inhabiting India. Of course, some pseudo-secularists plead on behalf of that mentally deranged man called Hussein and say that he should be permitted to exercise his right of freedom of expression. One wonders why the fellow does not exercise the same right and paint prominent women of his faith in the nude? He will not do so because he is only belittling the faith practised by the Hindus.
France has done very well by banning the Burqa. Belgium and Spain will follow suit. USA may not be able to do so as the One-Term_President called Barack Obama is in office because of his sympathy for Islamic men and women. His father is a Muslim and he was brought up in Indonesia, a predominantly Islamic country. Our hearts go out to Americans who have to fight against building of many mosques, including one near Ground Zero in New York.
More mosques mean more Burqas because those are the places that spread darkness in thought and action. No wonder, Switzerland has banned building of minarets to prevent perversion.
TAMASO MA JYOTIRGAMAY
LEAD ME FROM DARKNESS UNTO LIGHT - that is a prayer from the Vedas, the most ancient scripture in the library of mankind. When a man prays for light to get over darkness, he will never support the Burqa culture that spreads Darkness and nothing but darkness. Once a woman dons a Burqa, she is in absolute darkness from head to toe. Her progeny will be in darkness too.
So, BAN THE BURQA.
It is always a great pleasure to publish your articles on our humble site.
One of them was his honesty and the lack of full understanding of the true nature of Islam and its trickery.
He was far too trusty and allow Muslims to flourish in his state, he later also allowed Muslims to enter his army.
Does it sound familiar?
I was inspired to read your article and how a great leader can change the course of history. It is histories like this that give grassroots people heart to know that tyrannies can be challenged and we can win. Sadly, at the moment, we are into appeasement via political correctness, which of course emboldens our enemies. In order to defeat an evil enemy (which Islam is), we must be brave enough to tell it how it is. Unless we know the enemy, we will never defeat it, and if we keep flattering the enemy, the enemy will get stronger and we will go under the sword.
Shivaji was an exemplar of leadership, and by galvanizing the peasants, workers, artisans, clerics, in other words the ordinary people, into an army of patriots, he raised the morale to such an extent that they could defeat an implaccable enemy.
To me this is the key "The Patriotism of a high order fired their imagination to devise new strategy to defeat the seemingly superior enemy who was morally weak." We will only succeed if we have the will to do do. Our enemy has an inferior morality, and so is spiritually weak, but we must believe in our ability to defeat Islam.
Afzal, in keeping with Islamic doctrine, was sexually promiscuous and cruel. Just like other Muslim men, he regarded his many concubines as possessions, to be killed at will.
Also following Islam, he practiced deception - "On the pretext of embracing Shivaji, Khan tried to strangle him with all the force at his command."
Shivaji was a man of chivalry and humanity, who fought for thordinary people.
How I wish we had a few more like him to help us in this battle for survival that all free people are facing.
Indian women are so beautiful and dress in lovely saris, even the poor women. I have not been to India for decades, and cannot imagine dark burqa-covered creatures in the streets amongst all the lively colour. But here in Australia some women (Muslims) WANT to wear it, to frighten us and project an air of moral superoirity. Back in their Muslim countries, they would rebel against it!
But it also crosses my mind and I wonder if she also will allowed the sexual molesting of her small children when a pervert muslim visits their home. Many black crow dressers will allow this to happen.
Sometimes a bit of knowledge does not give one much peace. Especially when one can do nothing about it.
AUM.
We, the people who stand for Democracy, must oppose tooth and nail the dictatorial attitude of Muslim males who divorce their wives by Triple Talaq - the husband just says "Talaq Talaq Talaq"and the wife stands in the wilderness as a divorcee.
This form of divorce is an inhuman act. The Human Rights group and activists of Women's rights should protest and launch an agitation to have the Triple Talaq banned.
Let us wake up and fight for the cause of Muslim women and wean them away from Terrorism. They will become the bulwark of our defence against Islamist Terror. Thanks.
