Chhatrapathi Shivaji

[Bharatvarsh]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->6. Rajla Jayasing in his letter of January 1666 to Jafar
Khan writes : " .... —regardless of praise or blame by other
people, that if the Emperor sanctions it, I shall set on foot a
proposal for a match with his family and settle the marriage
of my son with his daughter,—though the pedigree and caste
of Shiva are notoriously low and men like me do not eat food
touched by his hand (not to speak of entering into a matri-
monial connection with him), .... "—-f. 139a, Haft Anjuman ;
p. 306, "R. G. Bhiarwjarkar Commemoration Volume", B. O.
R. Institute, Poona, 1917.

Maharashtra Of The Shivashahi Period, V S Bendrey, Pg 24

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Reconversion : a State policy

The policy of reconversion was much stressed in
§iv»ajf s period and greater still in Sambhajf s time. The
need was great especially to combat the ill-effects created
through the helplessness of the victims to regain their
social standing among their own kith and kin and parti-
cularly through the advantages taken by the other bigots
of their abandonment by the Hindu society. Later, this
policy, however, assumed a political0 exigency and recon-
versions were ordered to the communities concerned
rather than left optional to the wifl of either the Brah-
mins to purify or the communities to^accept restoration.
Sivajli was very particular, so also Sambhiay, in getting the
European powers to treat and agree not to allow con-
version by their Missionaries of even the Hindu orphans.
Sivajl thus declared conversion a crime, but reconversion
a moral duty of the king. The Missionaries, however,
did continue their sacred influence and religious respect
among the masses in their own territory. Satpbhajl
retaliated all the«affronts given by them, and revengefully
despoiled all the respect they commanded in his campaign
against the Portuguese. His conversion <jf churches into
Devi temples and destruction of nunneries and monas-
teries definitely uprooted all the influence and awe of the
Missionaries from the minds of the masses in the coastal
parts of the Konkan.

Maharashtra Of The Shivashahi Period, V S Bendrey, Pg 32

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