04-18-2006, 04:41 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I went to the reference library yesterday, found the following quotes in some books:
A court historian sums up Shivaji's sentiments (Shivaji was not literate according to J.N Sarkar):
"Why should we remain content with what the Muslim rulers choose to give us? We are Hindus. The whole country is ours by right, and is yet occupied and held by foreigners. They desecrate our temples, break holy idols, plunder our wealth, convert us forcibly to their religion, carry away our women folk and children, slay the cows and inflict a thousand wrongs upon us. We will suffer this treatment no more. We possess strength in our arms. Let us draw the sword in defense of our sacred religion, liberate our country and acquire new lands and wealth by our own effort. Are we not as brave and capable as our ancestors of yore? Let us undertake this holy mission and God will surely help us. All human efforts are so helped. There is no such thing as good luck and ill luck. We are the captains of our fortunes and the makers of our freedom." (Pg 251 and 252 - The Moghul Empire edited by R.C Majumdar and J.C Chaudhuri. The citation give in this book for this quote is G.S Sardesai's "New history of the Marathas, 1957, Vol I, Pg 97, 1st edition).
Pg 253 of the Mughal Empire says that at Bijapur Shivaji would not bow down to Adil Shah in his court and stops a Muslim butcher trying to slaughter a cow in a public thoroughfare.
Pg 268 and 269 - "Instead of Urdu and Persian which were the court languages for centuries past, Shivaji introduced Marathi and coined Sanskrit techincal terms for administrative purposes. Thus came into being the famous Raja-Vyavahara-Kosa, a dictionary of official terms. This was composed by a panel of experts under the supervision of Ragunath Pandit Hanumante" (Ragunath Pandit I think was the minster for religion, one of Shivaji's 8 ministers).
Pg 276 quotes from Shvaji's elder son Shambhuji's Sanskrit letter to Kunwar Ram Singh, son of Jai Singh it says that - "This kingdom belongs to Gods and Brahmans," "Hindustan is essentially a land of the Hindus."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
A court historian sums up Shivaji's sentiments (Shivaji was not literate according to J.N Sarkar):
"Why should we remain content with what the Muslim rulers choose to give us? We are Hindus. The whole country is ours by right, and is yet occupied and held by foreigners. They desecrate our temples, break holy idols, plunder our wealth, convert us forcibly to their religion, carry away our women folk and children, slay the cows and inflict a thousand wrongs upon us. We will suffer this treatment no more. We possess strength in our arms. Let us draw the sword in defense of our sacred religion, liberate our country and acquire new lands and wealth by our own effort. Are we not as brave and capable as our ancestors of yore? Let us undertake this holy mission and God will surely help us. All human efforts are so helped. There is no such thing as good luck and ill luck. We are the captains of our fortunes and the makers of our freedom." (Pg 251 and 252 - The Moghul Empire edited by R.C Majumdar and J.C Chaudhuri. The citation give in this book for this quote is G.S Sardesai's "New history of the Marathas, 1957, Vol I, Pg 97, 1st edition).
Pg 253 of the Mughal Empire says that at Bijapur Shivaji would not bow down to Adil Shah in his court and stops a Muslim butcher trying to slaughter a cow in a public thoroughfare.
Pg 268 and 269 - "Instead of Urdu and Persian which were the court languages for centuries past, Shivaji introduced Marathi and coined Sanskrit techincal terms for administrative purposes. Thus came into being the famous Raja-Vyavahara-Kosa, a dictionary of official terms. This was composed by a panel of experts under the supervision of Ragunath Pandit Hanumante" (Ragunath Pandit I think was the minster for religion, one of Shivaji's 8 ministers).
Pg 276 quotes from Shvaji's elder son Shambhuji's Sanskrit letter to Kunwar Ram Singh, son of Jai Singh it says that - "This kingdom belongs to Gods and Brahmans," "Hindustan is essentially a land of the Hindus."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->