09-07-2006, 12:51 AM
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Yes there is a lot of info but I am still in the process of reading the different books available online and am posting interesting extracts when I come across them, the best way to know Shivaji's ambitions is to go through the original contemporary Hindu sources and every one of them confirms that Shivaji's vision was Hindavi Swarajya (a state independent of foreign domination over Hindus).
We also read about Shivaji's vision in his own letters and proclamations and treaties, for example in his own letter to Dadaji Naras Prabhu he refers to the oath they took at Rohideswar about founding a Hindavi Swarajya, also he was the only Raja I know who was so devtoted to the Hindu cause that he couldn't even tolerate the excessive use of foreign words by Hindus in everyday language, so here is what he did:
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The Crisis in India written in 1950s talks about all the empires in India.
THe most important is the SHivaji Empire and is the only empire in the recent century which was built to protect the Hindu soceity and civilization.
The entire kingdom purpose was to protect the Hindu country from foriegn invaders.
Yes there is a lot of info but I am still in the process of reading the different books available online and am posting interesting extracts when I come across them, the best way to know Shivaji's ambitions is to go through the original contemporary Hindu sources and every one of them confirms that Shivaji's vision was Hindavi Swarajya (a state independent of foreign domination over Hindus).
We also read about Shivaji's vision in his own letters and proclamations and treaties, for example in his own letter to Dadaji Naras Prabhu he refers to the oath they took at Rohideswar about founding a Hindavi Swarajya, also he was the only Raja I know who was so devtoted to the Hindu cause that he couldn't even tolerate the excessive use of foreign words by Hindus in everyday language, so here is what he did:
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The Crisis in India written in 1950s talks about all the empires in India.
THe most important is the SHivaji Empire and is the only empire in the recent century which was built to protect the Hindu soceity and civilization.
The entire kingdom purpose was to protect the Hindu country from foriegn invaders.