ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES: THE MARATHA-MUGHAL CONFLICT 

As an Indian, you are forgiven. And thanks for mentioning the 9th Sikh Guru!

Aurangazeb also killed Son of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Chatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj . He was asked to convert to islam , he replied won't convert even when he is bribed with Mughal emperor's daughter for this he was made dance in the courtroom , ridiculed , skinned alive, beheaded and body parts were fed to pets. His served head was sent back to his home in the maratha empire.

Chattrapati can be roughly translated as lord of the umberalla i.e one who shelters his people

As an Indian especially Maratha I feel really happy that you shared our real history and our real Kings. I really appreciate your efforts and loved this Video. ❤️

The founding ideology of the Maratha Empire was Hindavi Swarajya meaning Hindu self rule. It inspired many nationalist leaders during the fight against colonialism.

I am maratha and i am proud to be a maratha.

I took AP world and don’t remember learning about Maratha. Thanks for bringing back memories and teaching me about something I either never learned about or forgot.

I wish my history teacher was like this. Placing the specific in a larger context was really cool

The "th" in "Maratha" and "Marathi" is more of a breath-y "t" sound, not an ð sound. In English a more accurate pronunciation would be a hard "t", like the th in "thyme". The ð sound is fairly unusual throughout the world, English is one of the few languages that use it.

Sad that this video doesn't has enough views... Great video anyways, I'm just bing watching the playlist :D

It is been really interesting watch these videos on the playlist and great to learn about some new channels, too!

Love your charisma, dude. Had me cracking up repeatedly!

Maratha empire has got to be the strongest last stand against the Muslim conquerors. We greatly rever Shivaji Maharaj and the maratha warriors but as history has shown, all great things must end... Great content !

I love your color coded bookshelves... My OCD appreciates your ROY G B (IV) organization. (at least I hope Indigo and Violet are just off camera! )

I love the Star Wars bit, really wish more people were Star Wars geeks but that's coming from a Star Wars geek. Great video too!

So good! Thanks! I stumbled upon them last year maybe when I was teaching Mughal decline and British conquest and I thought to myself “wait, if the Mughals were in decline who were the British taking over?” This helps my understanding a lot more!

Very interesting coverage of this topic!

Brilliant, witty & innovative as Always! Congrats on your continued Success here! It takes a Special Talent to make Learning so Fun, Surprising & Interesting! Rock On, Oh Hysterical - I mean Historical- One!😍🤓🌏

Thank you so much for these videos! They are so helpful and are easy to understand! Maybe you’ll get the context one time😂. Also-I was raised in Star Wars..it’s pretty great! Are watching the Mandolorian? I highly recommend!

Almost done this Playlist a whole week later and it makes me kinda wish I majored in history instead of focusing on STEM 😭 Btw I watch videos @ 1.25 to 1.5x speed to save time so your minute segment fit the time constraint you alloted for me ;)

❤️❤️ loved it and the series

As a parent of an AP student who is forcing said child to take a test in May, I love your sense of humor as much as your engaging content. Just stumbled across "So, on the night before for the AP World Exam, when you are glancing back at this, focus on PETER THE GREAT and MODERNIZATION. " on your website while helping my son study. 😆 Back in my day we only had index cards and maybe some VHS my history teacher taped off of the History Channel before it was all about aliens. So, I rebelled against my own parental overlords and only took 3 total AP exams even though I had 7 AP classes.

Wow, this is the worst of the collaboration so far. Dialog too quiet vs the music, never in focus, didn't start the video until 3:30 then rush everything. Good topic though and I know the channel is new so these are just teething pain

You can make a series on Maratha history including significant wars they fought, it's quite vast. Cool video, subscribed 👍

Excited you included Rogue One in the Star Wars canon. but bummed I didn't see the placement in the Star Wars crawl. Where does it land for you?

The only thing I wonder after watching these is why all of RU-vid doesn't copy everything about these videos. It's like a comedic version of the Potosi silver lode, pre-Spain. Well, there is one other thing I wondered after watching this one: that SW ranking is remarkable. Can we get a video explaining that someday? An essay? A book?

Great Video!! Loved it. You could've also mentioned Shivaji Maharaj's son Sambhaji Maharaj. He was even a bigger threat to Aurangjeb until Sambhaji's own brother in law betrayed him which led to his capture by Mughal army.Aurangjeb then tortured Sambhaji Maharaj. Eg. Putting hot iron rods in his eyes, poured hot oil in his ears etc and said that he would stop this torture if Sambhaji converted to Islam but Sambhaji never agreed on that and never converted to Islam and was cut slowly slowly into pieces but never converted into Islam.He was always true to his religion and his father's principles. You earned a new sub btw :)

Wow freeman, you've made it to the big league.

It's strange that in India you can't say that the Mughals were oppressive especially say something about the intolerance by Aurangzeb. We are taught nothing of his actions against the Hindus, it's only because of the internet and comman knowledge we know about his real image. Once I personally asked my history teacher about him, my teacher said that he was a great king because he lived a simple lifestyle unlike other mughal kings.

The cool thing about this video for me is that I'm learning both about the Indian history and the American system of education. I'm really curious what wold your take on the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth be like? Maybe some more specific topic connected to it (that is in the AP Course), like the "Cossack revolts" we can see at 8:40, among the illustrative examples of local resistance to state power from 1450 to 1750.

I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS ATTACK OF THE CLONES SLANDER! Other than that, amazing video, very helpful, and thank you so much for your help in this class!

3 minutes in and essentially nothing yet said about thet subject. I'm out. (Please take this as constructive criticism, I guess it might be hard to find a good balance between content and "How do you do, fellow kids", and I felt this went way too far towards the latter.)

Great content, but you need to fix the volume. Perhaps add a voice over or use a mic

Man already knew that the Indians would come after him after making this video.

Watching coz this is legitimately entertaining

U are THE coolest freemanpedia person EVER

You seem like an interesting youtuber, but can you please adjust your volume levels? I had to turn my volume all the way up to barely hear the speaking parts then I got blasted by the intro clip audio.

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Dang ben freemen without glasses hits different

You all 10 youtubers failed to mentionion that it was Mahatama Gandhi's Birthday on 2nd October and these 13 vedios are a tribute to him.LOL. Maybe the boss behind the plan knows this.HAHAHA... Thank you anyway buddy for making such a beautiful vedio.

Ha ha ha, very funny. enough of the tyranny of rectangles!!! :)

What's interesting is How Maratha fought, the battle we out of box, also Shivaji escape, battle of Pawankhind, Kondhana, Pratapgarh, Bijapur, etc very interesting.

Since I am a local and a maratha as well, here are a few facts about this conflict : (I am no historian, but these are the things you won't find in regular "textbooks" ): 1. The most important thing which in favor of us is the mountainous terrain which made it difficult for the mughals to transport their large cannons and elephants. You can say they were practically useless on mamy occasions. 2. Marathas never attacked head on. It was always hit and run. And it was devastating for mughal army, which were not used to the climate and the terrain. 3. We kind of bankrupted the empire. Marathas used to capture mughal noblemen with Swift movements and surprise attacks and they used to release them after taking heavy ransom. And this used to happen over and over again with a same person. It was more devastating than simply executing the guy. 4. On one occasion, only 2000 maratha soldiers raided the camp of the emperor himself ( which had 100k+ people). Arungazeb literally escaped death. Ether he hid somewhere or he wasn't there at that time, don't know for sure.

I watched the whole series. I was about to leave this video 3 times. ... and at 5:38 I just jumped to the next part.

you are supposed to join your palms when saying namaste or don't do anything with your hands at all

wait americans learn things like that in school, why are there so many videos of them being unable to even find other countries on maps?

HELLO FREEMAN I AM BACK AGAIN WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS GET ME A 5 ON THE APWH EXAM YOU AND HEIMLER TOGETHER YEAH!

Thank you professor

The audio is a little hard to hear. It's just really quiet. Great video though.

Come to India my friend and give us the opportunity to show you around.

It is commonly said that it was the Mahomedans whom the British displaced as rulers in India. This is true only in a restricted sense. It would be nearer the truth to say that it was the Mahrattas in the main whom we displaced. Sir Richard Temple quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883-1924 (2019)

Oooh so they DO (rightly) count the Russian Empire as land-based?? Coulda sworn some review thing I found classified it (wrongly) as a sea based empire.

6 mins and you are still talking about background. I would suggest getting to the point early on!

Sound is not quite good

6:08-12:35

lol yes my teacher is making me for extra credit🤣

Dear Dr. Freemanji, We would like to formally lodge a complaint with your ranking of the Star Wars saga films. We find there to be several egregious errors, and these make us concerned about your mental well-being. Are you okay? B/c Episode III is clearly straight 🔥🔥🔥. And IX is total 🐕💦. With love, Stuart's 5th hour

Hope it gets views

I feel special now that I've seen all of Star Wars... but now I feel old 😅

Video begins at 3:30

Last time I was this early the Michael where still a backwater in western India

Shivaji's son Sambhaji was Exicuted by Mughals because he was not ready to convert to Islam.

Video starts at 3:34

0:35 The Force Awakens was better than Rouge One! 😜

Kings and generals have covered the anglo maratha wars

Something i will happy about it, indian subcontinent didn't fall in our hands by the British, w don't hold responsible for it

Maratha history is more complicated than Game of Thrones. You have uncles killing nephews only for Baelish to suddenly take control of everything. Things got more and more complicated because there was very little stability in leadership. Also as an aside, Chhattrapati means bearer of the parasol. Anyone who swore loyalty to the Chhattrapati was under the protection of the parasol. Peshwa means the first, a word taken from persian.

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ki jay! Where's other videos tho?

Ill only forgive you if you talk about the Vijaya Nagar empire!

Marathas and Habeshis became a military caste under Deccan sultanates around 1500 ad their overlord were defeated by the Mughals because of this they fled into the caves hills marshes and forests when a succession crisis took place among the Mughals they were emboldened the habeshis were too small to found an empire so they made small coastal city states who had British favour and who were initially under Maratha suzerainty Marathas eventually used the succession crisis in their favour and reduced them to subservient city-state when Maratha hegemony was shattered in 1818 the maintenance of subservience went to the British and the remnants of the ashtha pradhan ( the Maratha cabinet of officials ) which were made vestigial in 1818 were snuffed out after the Peshwa was deposed in 1858 along with the Mughals which were only prestigious by name ( they along with the bhonsales were allowed to keep the title of emperor until 1858 ) at that point remnants of the great Maratha empire remained until 1949 under various levels of independence

Which temples did Aurangzeb fund? What is the Source?

there are no conflicting claims about the cruelness of Aurangzeb. He was a cruel islamist. his own court records mention that. moreover his predesessors were also cruel and not so tolerant.

Others history by black ink on white paper. Maratha history is written by blood and sword.

They were not just marathas but peshva as well. The peshwas kings still exists.

I would like to correct you on one thing. Major history about the Mughal empire was written by Mughal historians themselves. That's is why we have so many of those accounts saying Mughals ruled Bharath peacefully. And not just a few temples were demolished. More than 40,000 temples were demolished. The ruins and the temple history themselves are proof of it. Maratha was not the first to rebel and neither were they the last. But Chatrapathy Shivaji Maharaj effectively took back out land, bringing a lot of Bharath back from Mughals's clutches. There are history written and recorded by us Indians, but British discredited them and the world still continues to do so. P.S - Not one guru alone, mank Sikhs were killed by them because Sikhs protected the Hindus against brutal conversion.

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Please stop talking about your methods, College Board, Star Wars, and attempting to make the topic "fun" (it's already interesting, it doesn't need help if explained well). Perhaps these time stamps can illustrate how much breath you wasted on information that only serves to distract from the actually important stuff. 3:30 Finally starts talking about history 5:15 You can skip to the next timestamp 6:04 The main course (most of the following 6 minutes or so is very well done) 9:09 Telling two versions of the same story makes it difficult to remember which one actually happened 12:20 End main course, but potentially important if you're actually an AP student watching this 12:35 The rest isn't really important

It took you 8 minutes of your 14:20 min video to finally get to the maratha, and even after that, you've actually said more about the mughals than maratha. To add insult to injury, much of those first 8 minute were spent on useless rambling. You should have called it "What brought down the mughals", or something like that. 2/10

sick-h not seek

Chatrapati means protector of people

You are sooo boring come to the topic don't bore us 😴🙏