By the June of 1665, jai singh had succeeded in gaining enormous military advantage over the forces of shivAjI, and as a result began a series of diplomatic movements from shivAjI's side to come to terms with mughals, leading finally to a remarkable interview of shivAjI with the elderly rAjapUt and a most notable general of his time, jaisingh, when the former came out secretly from the fort of purandar with only six brAhmaNa councillors to meet the latter in his tent.
Here, we know of what transpired during the interview between the two great men through the minutes and dispatches sent to Delhi by the munshI of jaisingh. What is very remarkable here is that shivAjI demands jaisingh to arrange for him "a similar treatment as to the house of mewAr", and a similar treaty "as been offered to the mahArANA of udaipur"!
Did shivAjI know that just a few decades, almost a century earlier, in that very month, a direct ancestor of jaisingh was negotiating a similar arrangement with mahArANA pratApa singh at the outskirts of udaipur fort? Might shivAjI have mentioned any more of mewAr to the rAjapUta chief? Did the embarrassment of jaisingh' grand-father at the hands of pratApa ever cross the minds of either men? Might they have ever referred to pratApa at all? One never knows, but one wonders.
And indeed the 1665 treety of Purandar, is almost a xerox copy of mughal treaty with the house of mewAr. Most notable point being excuse of personal appearance in court, and only sending his son with 5000 force into the mughal service.
Here, we know of what transpired during the interview between the two great men through the minutes and dispatches sent to Delhi by the munshI of jaisingh. What is very remarkable here is that shivAjI demands jaisingh to arrange for him "a similar treatment as to the house of mewAr", and a similar treaty "as been offered to the mahArANA of udaipur"!
Did shivAjI know that just a few decades, almost a century earlier, in that very month, a direct ancestor of jaisingh was negotiating a similar arrangement with mahArANA pratApa singh at the outskirts of udaipur fort? Might shivAjI have mentioned any more of mewAr to the rAjapUta chief? Did the embarrassment of jaisingh' grand-father at the hands of pratApa ever cross the minds of either men? Might they have ever referred to pratApa at all? One never knows, but one wonders.
And indeed the 1665 treety of Purandar, is almost a xerox copy of mughal treaty with the house of mewAr. Most notable point being excuse of personal appearance in court, and only sending his son with 5000 force into the mughal service.