09-07-2006, 07:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-07-2006, 07:35 AM by Bharatvarsh.)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Without Vijayanagara there would have been not Maratha Hindu Svarajya- remember South India gave the buffer zone when Rajaram and his wife bore the brunt of the great 26 year Jihad on Awrangzeb. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes and this was also not just due to Shivaji's foresight in establishing a Southern chain of possessions in case of emergemncy, Rani Chennamma of Keladi gave shelter to Rajaram when he came to her kingdom and had to face Aurangzeb's armies for this (which she successfully did).
It's a great bane that in the different states of India there is no proper national perspective on Hindu resistance all over India, instead each state confines its syllabus to the local heroes, if you go through the older historians (both British and Indian) in the earlier days, they practically relegate South India to non entity, the same is the case with the North-East today, we never learned much about Assam, Manipur and the rest of the NE states.
Yes and this was also not just due to Shivaji's foresight in establishing a Southern chain of possessions in case of emergemncy, Rani Chennamma of Keladi gave shelter to Rajaram when he came to her kingdom and had to face Aurangzeb's armies for this (which she successfully did).
It's a great bane that in the different states of India there is no proper national perspective on Hindu resistance all over India, instead each state confines its syllabus to the local heroes, if you go through the older historians (both British and Indian) in the earlier days, they practically relegate South India to non entity, the same is the case with the North-East today, we never learned much about Assam, Manipur and the rest of the NE states.