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Adil Shah Adil-Shahi Afzal Khan Agra Ahmadnagar April army arrived attack Aurangabad Aurangzib Baglana Bahadur Khan Bahlol Khan Baji Bakhar Bijapur Bombay Brahmans camp campaign captured cavalry Chakan Chit Chitnis coast command conquest Court Dadaji Danda-Rajpuri Daud Khan Deccan defeated Dilir Khan district elephants Emperor enemy English factory envoy F. R. Surat fleet force forts garrison Ghats Golkonda governor Haidarabad Hindu honour horse imperial India jagir Jai Singh Janjira Jaswant Javli Junnar Kanara Karnatak Karwar Khan's Khanderi king kingdom Kolhapur Konkan lakhs letter looted Madras Maharashtra Maratha March Masaud Mavle merchants miles Muazzam Mughal Muslim Nayak Netaji Palkar officers Panhala peace Persian Peshwa plunder Ponda Pratap Rao Prince Puna Puna district Purandar Raghunath raid Raigarh Rajah Rajapur Rajput returned Rupees Rustam-i-Zaman Sabh Sabhasad Satara sent Shahji Shaista Khan Shambhuji Shiva Shivaji Siddi siege soldiers territory town troops viceroy village Vyankoji wrote
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Page 442 - Shivaji has shown that the tree of Hinduism is not really dead, that it can rise from beneath the seemingly crushing load of centuries of political bondage, exclusion from the administration, and legal repression; it can put forth new leaves and branches; it can again lift up its head to the skies."— Pp.
Page 365 - It has recently come to my ears that, on the ground of the war with me having exhausted your wealth and emptied the imperial treasury, your Majesty has ordered that money under the name of jaziya should be collected from the Hindus and the imperial needs supplied with it.
Page 138 - This policy will result in a threefold gain : first, we get 40 lakhs of hun or 2 krores of Rupees ; secondly, Shivaji will be alienated from Bijapur ; thirdly, the imperial army will be relieved from the arduous task of campaigning in these two broken and jungly regions as Shiva will himself undertake the task of expelling the Bijapuri garrisons from them.
Page 138 - If lands yielding 4 lakhs of hun a year in the lowlands of Konkan and 5 lakhs of hun a year in the uplands ( Balaghat Bijapuri), are granted to me by the Emperor and I am assured by an Imperial farman that the possession of these lands will be confirmed in me after the expected Mughal conquest of Bijapur, then I agree to pay to the Emperor 40 lakhs of hun in 13 yearly instalments.
Page 366 - Through the auspicious effect of this sublime disposition, wherever he (Akbar) bent the glance -of his august wish, Victory and Success advanced to welcome him on the way. In his reign many kingdoms and forts were conquered.
Page 16 - Deccan in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This religious revival was not brahmanical in its orthodoxy; it was heterodox in its spirit of protest against forms and ceremonies and class distinctions based on birth, and ethical in its preference of a pure heart, and of the law of love, to all other acquired...
Page 137 - By reason of my late unwise and disloyal acts, I have not the face to wait on the Emperor. I shall depute my son to be His Majesty's servant and slave, and he will be created a Commander of Five Thousand with a suitable jagir As for me sinner, exempt me from holding any mansab or serving in the Mughal army. But whenever in your wars in the Deccan, I am given any military duty, I shall promptly perform it.
Page 365 - Next, the Emperor Nuruddin Jahangir for 22 years spread his gracious shade on the head of the world and its dwellers, gave his heart to his friends and his hand to his work, and gained his desires. The Emperor Shah Jahan for 32 years cast his blessed shade...
Page 16 - This religious revival was not brahmanical in its orthodoxy; it was heterodox in its spirit of protest against forms and ceremonies and class distinctions based on birth, and ethical in its preference of a pure heart, and of the law of love, to all other acquired merits and good works. This religious revival was the work also of the people, of the masses, and not of the classes.
Page 110 - In diplomacy he had attained to a success surpassing even his victories in the field. Wherever there was a difficult or delicate work to be done, the Emperor had only to turn to Jai Singh. A man of infinite tact and patience, an adept in the ceremonious courtesy of the Muslims, a master of Turki and Persian, besides Urdu and the Rajput dialect...