Maratha - Mughal War | Aneesh Gokhale |  

I am from the state of Telangana... I should say that Chatrapathi Shivaji is a the great leader who should be hailed for bringing the ideology of Hindu Swaraj! This is what we Indians need right now in the 21st century not regional prejudice or caste prejudice... Otherwise we will converted into Christians and Muslims in no time.. Jai Hind! Jai Sanathan Dharm!

Summary: British took Bharat from Maratha empire not from mugals

Aneesh I am born in Mumbai, being a mumbaikar I am proud to be a Hindu and I am still a Hindu because of valour and sacrifice by Marathas and sardars I am in debt for these two clans.

jai Maratha....jai shivaji ... from a kannadiga ...🙏🙏🙏🙏

loved it... Need to be taught in Maharashtra history textbooks. 27 years epic Maharashtra's War of independence.

🙏 All Patriotic Indians are indebted for ever to Great Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ji. . 🙏

Hindavi swaraj, today every hindu is longing for it.

Aneesh my big brother, it is very much like to me that as a historian u r giving respect to our ancestors by calling their names respectfully, that's the perfect way of talking as historian.

Indeed, it was a unique and magnificent military campaign by Marathas for over 27 years. Great Marathas !

Jai Bhavani! Jai Shivaji!

Excellent Video !!! Very Informative.. there is no doubt that Mughal rule in India faced stiff resistance at different periods from the great RAJPUT warriors, fierce AHOMS warriors from Assam & from Punjab the brave SIKHS warriors... Rightly did the great Hindi Poet Bhushana, who forsook the royal favours of the Mughal court to come over to Shivaji to record his glories, he sang :-“काशी की कला जाती, मथुरा की मसजीद बनती, अगर शिवाजी ना होते तो सबकी सुन्नत होती.” meaning : (Had not there been Shivaji, Kashi would have lost its culture,Mathura would have been turned into a mosque and all would have been circumcised.) If not for Shivaji and the Marathas, there would have existed a continuous Islamic belt from Morocco to Indonesia. What addition of 1 billion more adherents to Islam would have done to the world power balance or what would have happened to Indian legacy like yoga, ayurveda, music, art and philosophy, is not difficult to guess…. It is worthwhile examining the 'what if' of Indias history, Aurengzeb, Akbars great great grandson, had embarked on the 'Islamisation' of India. The Marathas, inspired by Shivaji, fought Aurengzeb and saved India from following the fate of Persia. The proof of Maratha victory lies in the fact that Aurengzeb lies buried, not in Lahore /Delhi or Agra , but near Aurangabad in good old Maharashtra... Indian history before Shivaji's advent reads like a chronicle of military disasters. Shivaji changed all that. He used Guerilla Tactics very effectively. Shivaji, as a great warrior & visionary laid a strong and solid foundation that after his death in 1680, there was a series of battles fought between Marathas and Mughals from 1681 to 1707 known as 'War of 27 years' and ended with the death of Aurangzeb in 1707. The Marathas eventually emerged victorious and consolidated their lost territories. This was further expanded by the Peshwas. The Maratha empire reached its peak in summer of 1758 with the conquest of Attock, which is banks of Indus river in Pakistan today. Its eastern frontier was today’s Orissa, being ruled by Raghuji Bhosale of Nagpur. Maratha armies had also reached upto Murshidabad, but then retreated and settled for tribute from Bengal and control of Orissa. To the south, in 1758, territories upto the fort of Gurramkonda in Kadappah district were held. Also, Tanjore (Thanjavur) was under Marathas, but that was a different line. (By the way, just for your G.K, Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is also considered as the 'Father of the Indian Navy'.) Jai HIND !!! VANDE MATARAAM !! VANDE MATARAAM !! VANDE MATARAAM !!

The concept of Swarajya is so unique - a nation not build around religion, money, power or figures but true authentic ideology of dharma.

Proud of you, Aneesh!

we can't not even imagine what they have gone through that period.Or hum log in logo ke baare main dhang se jaante bhi nahi

This is such an amazing history. I love it. It Should be taught to our kids in school.

Jai Shivaji

Srijan Foundation needs to work on its reach for these enlightening talks. People who've spoken so far are amazing, but maybe get some famous people with favorable opinion like Rajiv Malhotra in a big and we'll marketed event. Be strategic about influencing narrative.

Amazing how the British kept these information out of our textbooks. Close down ASI.

This is a great video and speech by Aneesh Gokhale. I just have problem with one statement in the description of the video. It says, without a towering leader for 27 years. Chhatrapati Sambhaji was a towering and inspiring leader just like his father Chatrapati Shivaji

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Very very excellent narration on MARATHA fighting policy with enemy decided by Shivaji Maharaj by which Martha's could keep fighting for 27 years and ultimately lasting mogul empire.

Shivaji 1. Vatandari system's has a flaw. No pride for fighting mugal flag. Only incentive was to increase the watandari. Shivaji fixed this flaw by introducing the idea of hindavi swaraj or Govt for the people and of the people. By the people was not possible at the time of plunders and loots. 2. He created Self Sufficient forts with multiple entries & secret exits along with double walls and ability to grow grains and water tanks within fort itself. This helped to survive long sieges. Fort Ramsej survived Auranzeb attack for 6 years. 3. Created forts in pairs. This helped for supply restoration and cannon cover fire from the nearby fort. example: Ramsej and Trimbak etc. 4. He realized Mughals may wipe of everything one day that he had captured. So he had maintained huge contingency funds for re-recuritment and repairs. His financial risk management done by Ramchandra Pant was atleast 100 years ahead of his time. 5. Every fort had its own budget and maintained self financial sufficiency and least dependence upon parent fort of Raigadh. 6. Stretched his empire to South India to loot the Adil Shahi kingdom and get all wealth back from Muslims. 7. Expanding south also gave him option to fall back /hide in south cities like Vellore. All this was planned well before any attack and without killing a single officer. 8. When Aurangzeb attacked Marathas after 1680 with an Army of 6 lakhs (this biggest in those times), Shivaji's successors and used the south locations to their advantage to built a strategic maratha base when Shivaji died in 1680. 9. It was the largest aggregation of an army at one single place in the madevial times. Such was Shivaji's institutionaly strong legacy. 10. His Son Shambha ji fought 70 battles against Mughals and extended Swaraj to Goa by winning significantly against the Portugese.

I have heard from Norwegian tourist Similar fight against mighty enemy they had fought against rusian invasion ..I was got astonishing by their respect faiths and emotions regarding to their struggle actually they celebrate ..and we just dont know ..why because some left liberal dhimnis dont want so..

Wonderful information by Shri. Gokhale. Thank you. Another fantastic topic at Srijan. At the same time, he should improve on his presentation skills. The tone is extremely monotonous, delivery is in spurts with lots of pauses interspersed to gulp as if he is nervous. Such an awe inspiring story should be accompanied by the vigour and energy it deserves in delivery.

Very informative talk Aneesh! Personally we lot know the history of King Shivaji but, don't know that must after Maharaj death time. Thanks for detailed information on maratha sardars Dhanaji Jadhav, Santaji Ghorpade, Nemaji Shinde, Dhabade, Amatya Bawadekar and many others who sacrifice theirs entire life for Swarajya. In Kolhapur there is place named as Gaganbawada where there is samadhi of Ramchandara pant who controlled maratha empire in crutial time. Best luck keep spreading history of these brave warriors.

Superb talk !

Thank you sir fir the informative lecture.

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Should make a movie out of this. all indians should see this ill share the links with all my friends

मराठा लोगों ने जिस तरह का संघर्ष किया था उसके बारे में आज पहली बार सुना।

if u think this is shocking then u should read P.N OAK’s book “some blunders of indian historical research”. small book.u can freely download the pdf. did i mention that INDIRA GANDHI forcefullt tried to never let his books be published. small book.but must read ,any page can shock u beyond imagination.

Shree shree shree chatrapati shivaji maharaj ki jay 🙏🕉️🚩⚔️

In history books maratha empire is not presented properly .I was of opinion that maratha empire was limited to Maharashtra . only by social media I came to know that his empire was till Thanjavur in South and some part has formed east and west pakistan .He is considered an avatar of Shivji ,a contemporary of aurangazeb-a devil.If Shivaji was not present , whole of India would have been islamised.

thanks

Loved every bit of it!

speechless .. jst commenting so as to get more views through recommendations

Great talk. Few suggestions to improve the presentation..1) When maps are shown the speaker just says "this region" but we cannot see any pointers. Perhaps that can be edited into the video. 2) I can tell english is not the first language of the speaker perhaps he can speak more comfortably in marathi and it can be sub-titled in english.

Chattrapathi Sivaji is probably the greatest warrior king of India

19.30 sambhaji was given koranic punishment which was practiced by mohammad . prithviraj was given the same punishment by ghori . these are recorded in history . unrecorded was more .

Really Informative...

Joy Maratha, Chhatrapati Shivaji Moharajer Joy 🚩 Love from West Bengal, Especially Hindu Bangalis really appreciate the efforts done by the Maratha ancestors to defend parts of Bengal from Islamic occupation. 🙏

@SrijanTalks by this discovery of history it seems If it wasnt for Marathas, india from kashmir to kannyakumari maybe even sri lanka or may be even south east asia could have been converted into islamic country today just like half western asia and europe today, it could have been the end of hinduism, every temples could have been destroyed throughtout the world, marathas deserves the biggest reward and respect. just imagine the padmanabhaswamy temple destroyed and the amount of treasure they have could have been in mughals hands and with that amount of wealth in their hands that could have been enough to conquering the whole world, the whole world could have been in under the darkness of islam just imagine the chain reaction of history if marathas didnt existed it could have been the planet of islamic darkness but dharma is justice and justice prevails Jai Hind Jai Maharashtra Jai Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj

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Excellent Aneesh!

You really enjoyed teasing 😉 .... Wonderful ❣️ .... Jai Shiva Ji

where do these talks take place? i would like to attend...

jay shivaji

Very nice and informative talk...

Brilliant fact based thus illuminating...Thank You to Channel & Aneesh

Beautiful explained

Namaste this is very inspiring !! We need these stories taught in schools 😀🔥

Our texts should replace mughuls with shivaji, vijayanagar, battle of bhairauch when grandson of m shazni was killed by small local bharat army, battle of pasighat which was the cause of muthal decline and marthandavarma the great

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Thank you for soo much for the lectures. More please. If there is a some expert on vijayanagar empire, I would love to learn more about it. Any book suggestion is appreciated as well.

आप लोग ने निवेदन है की आप लोग अपना प्रबचन हिंदी दे तो तो देश के अधिक से अधिक लोगो को पता चलेगा .. भारतीय संस्कृति के बारे में ..

Explained very well

while our history textbooks start from MUGHAL rule and ends there as if there was nothing other than that wretched mere 150 years rule in indian history. believe me ,i didnt knew anything about peshwa bajirao while i love reading history. dont u think that the person.who hailed the DHARM DHWAJA throughout india,needs to be hailed in our textbooks.and minds. such genicides of the memory of leaders like NETAJi and many.more have been done by POST iNDEPENDENCE Historians,brutally.

Why still we have towns named Aurangabad ( one in Bihar also)????

Pranaam dhanyavaad Namahaste

Hi please use # in your descriptions to increase your reach. Such genuine information needs to pop up in front of the right audience.

जय भवानी जय शिवराय !

Please put subtitiles in English and other languages if possible. At least English There are many in the south who cannot follow advanced Hindi This is very important in the south especially in TN where people deliberately distort things for political and monetary conversion reasons. I request you kindly

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Very sad that it is not found in our text books.

Rani Chennamma was from Kittur, near Belgaum in Karnataka. The queen who gave shelter to Rajaram was Keladi Chennamma, a place close to Kundapur, near Udupi and nowhere near Bangalore. You cannot be so ignorant

★★★ Awesome.. Superb Video !! While we all enjoy this video let us also not forget that ...'Those who do not learn from History are doomed to repeat it.' The Mughal rule began in 1526 with Babur's accession to the throne, and ended with the death of Aurangzeb in 1707. Overall the Mughals ruled northern part of India for approx 181 years and ruined India. The Mughal empire rapidly disintegrated after Aurangzebs death and was replaced by the Maratha Confederacy. At its peak the Maratha empire covered much of South Asia, with a territory of over 2.8 million km² and stretched from Tamil Nadu in the south, to Peshawar & Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan in the north, and Bengal Subah in the east. To understand the rise and prominence of the Marathas lets dig a little deeper : There is NO doubt that the brutal & fanatic Islamic Mughal rule in India faced stiff resistance at different periods from the great RAJPUT warriors, fierce AHOM warriors from Assam & from Punjab the brave SIKH warriors...rightly did the great Hindi Poet Bhushana, who forsook the royal favours of the Mughal court to come over to Shivaji to record his glories, sang :-“काशी की कला जाती, मथुरा की मसजीद बनती, अगर शिवाजी ना होते तो सबकी सुन्नत होती.” meaning : (Had not there been Shivaji, Kashi would have lost its culture,Mathura would have been turned into a mosque and all would have been circumcised.) If not for Shivaji and the Marathas, there would have existed a continuous Islamic belt from Morocco to Indonesia. What addition of 1 billion more adherents to Islam would have done to the world power balance or what would have happened to Indian legacy like yoga, ayurveda, music, art and philosophy, is not difficult to guess…. It is worthwhile examining the 'what if' of Indias history, Aurengzeb, Akbars great great grandson, had embarked on the 'Islamisation' of India. The Marathas, inspired by Shivaji, fought Aurengzeb and saved India from following the fate of Persia. The proof of Maratha victory lies in the fact that Aurangzeb lies buried, not in Lahore /Delhi or Agra, but near Aurangabad in good old Maharashtra... Indian history before Shivaji's advent reads like a chronicle of military disasters. Shivaji changed all that. He used Guerilla Tactics (hit and run) very effectively. Shivaji, as a great warrior & visionary laid a solid foundation such, that after his death in 1680, there was a series of battles fought between Marathas and Mughals from 1681 to 1707 known as 'War of 27 years' and ended with the death of Aurangzeb in 1707, about 2.5 million of Aurangzeb's army were killed during the Mughal-Maratha War of 27 years. The Marathas eventually emerged victorious and this was followed by the phase of rapid expansion of the Maratha Empire for the next 50 years under patronage of Shahu and his appointed Peshwas Baji Rao I and Balaji Baji Rao. Chatrapati Shivaji is also credited for the laying the foundation of the Indian Navy. He appointed Kanoji Angre the chief of the Maratha Navy who fought against the British, Dutch and Portuguese naval interests on the coasts of India during the 18th century and became their greatest enemy on sea, so much was he dreaded that the British and Europeans labeled him a pirate. He was instrumental bringing about a considerable change in Naval Warfare by introducing a Blue-water navy in those times. The Maratha empire reached its peak in summer of 1758 with the conquest of Attock, which is banks of Indus river in Pakistan today*(check Notes below). Maratha Empire's eastern frontier was today’s Orissa, being ruled by Raghuji Bhosale of Nagpur. Maratha armies had also reached upto Murshidabad, but then retreated and settled for tribute from Bengal and control of Orissa. To the south, in 1758, territories upto the fort of Gurramkonda in Kadappah district were held. Also, Tanjore (Thanjavur) was under Marathas, but that was a different line. In 1761, the 3rd battle of PANIPAT war was lost to the Afghans but they RECOVERED quickly like phoenix bird from ashes and within 10 years (during the 1770's) brought the whole of North India in their control under the able leadership of Madhavrao Peshwa. Marathas also comprehensively defeated the Nizam of Hyderabad and kept Hyder Ali- Tipu Sultan of Mysore in serious check. During this phase, Pune, the seat of Peshwas, flourished as a center of Hindu learning and traditions. The Confederacy is also credited for developing many of the nation’s important cities like Pune, Baroda under Gaikwads, Indore under Holkars and Gwalior under Shinde's or Scindia's. Eventually, the Marathas grew stronger and fought the British in three Anglo-Maratha Wars (1775-82, 1803-05, 1817-18), In the First Anglo-Maratha War (1775-1782) the Marathas emerged Victorious. A Vijay Stambh (Victory Pillar) erected to commemorate Maratha victory over British is located at Vadgaon/Wadgaon Maval, close to the city of Pune. The 2nd and 3rd were subsequently lost and British established themselves which was followed by the Uprising of 1857. Thus after a prolonged fight with the Marathas and with the Sikhs in Punjab the British firmly established themselves as the de-facto rulers of India. As mentioned above, the British were technologically superior to the Marathas..and hence they were at an advantage. (-By the way, just for your G.K, Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is considered today as the 'Father of the Indian Navy'AND apart from Jijabai-mother of Shivaji, the other 2 well known Women personalities emerging from the Maratha Confederacy were Devi AHILYABAI HOLKAR from Indore, Maharani Tarabai and RANI LAXMIBAI of Jhansi also known as Manikarnika. * "Lahore, Multan, Kashmir and other subahs on this side of Attock are under our rule for the most part, and places which have not come under our rule we shall soon bring under us. 'Namard' Ahmad Shah Durrani's son Timur Shah Durrani and Jahan Khan have been pursued by our troops, and their troops completely looted. Both of them have now reached Peshawar with a few broken troops . . . So Ahmad Shah Durrani has returned to Kandahar with some 12-14 thousand broken troops.. Thus all have risen against Ahmad who has lost control over the region. We have decided to extend our rule up to Kandahar." - Raghunathrao's letter to the Maratha Peshwa, 4 May 1758. ---------------- "To the Jats,Gujars,Ahirs and the Jats of 18 khaps or pads (thambas) or the heads of thoks and panchayats, I send my regards. For the defence of religion it is the duty of every hindu to help me in defending the 'country'. Everyone will have to fight for the defence of the country against the coming invasion. From the ninth century the apostates have made this country their stronghold and are ruling over it. There will be no better oppurtunity than this to drive them out. The servant of the hindu religion. - Sadashivrao BHAU, October 1760" - Sadashivrao Bhau's letter to the Jats and other North Indian rulers.

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I like Sangam Talk one bad thing about it all Lectures are in English and not in Hindi or Regional language We need to pass these information to common man of India so they can understand. Please make video jn regional language. And yiu guys are missing Podcast. We need podcast version of these videos as well.

Bharat mata ki jai

हिंदी में भी बताये, धन्यवाद

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Regular Marathas campaigns have been destroy the India's muslim power. Now our turn to do something for Sanatan and Akhand Bharat.

Well but there are other things also you should explain. Why Marathas need to depend on Europeans (France, Portuguese etc) for Cannons? Why Maratha couldn't create system so that we can manufacture our own cannons instead of importing. If we didn't get cannons from Europe, was it possible to win against Mughals? Even Mughals had their own cannon making artisans, we didn't. So you should highlight the structural flaws also.

Why this is not in text books.....

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Aneesh तुझा अभ्यास कदाचित चांगला असेल इतिहासाचा ;पण छत्रपती शिवाजी महाराज असे म्हणत जा.......ज्यांच्या जीवावर पोट भरतोस त्यांचा एकेरी उल्लेख करू नकोस.....

It must be in hindi aur marathi...pls...

bro such a great history delivered in the most rudimentary manner. u must improve ur lecturing skills to make it more interesting.if u r not comfortable in english go ahead in hindi

History teaches us Indians we're ruled by Britishers (Cristian) 300 years Mogul (Muslim)ruled us for long time .mohad Ghori defeated pritiviraj chahan .1000 years ago ..Alexander the great defeated us 2000years ago .Ashoka (Buddhist)ruled us .Odisha Kharbela (Jain) king ruled us .So in history a student learn we are always defeated .Can any genious tell me full of gold under temple found every where in India .we were reach so Britishers came here for loot .we donot have gold mine .So how could we got all these gold ..Rewrite ancient history .Burn all British false history .

Martha destroyed Mughal and British destroyed Maratha which caused destruction of India

Please translate it in Hindi for all Indians.

Same paschim maharastra is going to have next swarajya.

Make a video documentary backed up by facts and evidences.

Dear friend, you need to have the facts correctly. Rani Chennamma was firstly was not the queen from Bangalore. She was not the contemporary of Rajaram. She lived from 1778 to 1829

sir its not Rani chennamma its ....belawadi mallamma 🙏🙏 who gave shelter 🙏🙏.

Its karnataka. For all your pride in narrating history. Do say its kar-na-ta-kaa.

Hindi me uplabdh karaye

why hindus kings lost many wars is it because we dont know how to do war or weapons or stategies or something else.

he is not at all confident ..why ? ...take pride yaar ....baar baar ataak raha hain ....

i loved the knowledge of yours but you need to improve your communication skills its like school boy is reading the book

How much of this history is objective and fact-based? A lot of this seems to be speculative and conjecture.

Yogiji future Prime minister 🔥🚩

All these are fools...

Horrible orator

Drink some water .... And we need to teach these chapters to posterity

Shivaji like so many other Kings wanted power and territory which he was successful in doing. He was never against Muslims although he may have been against Muslim Kings. His top officials were all Muslims even his commander in chief and the court language was Persian and definitely never Marathi. In his time Hindu Muslim was never an issue. If his intention is to establish Hinduism, would he use Muslim generals including son of Aurangzeb?

We moghal fight both armies one side east india company other side is maratha 'we moghal give india all oyr live and all oyr wealth but indian people call us invader and looted shame on indian people'we r not looted india'india is our country homland'

Dear Srijan Talks, please have a good speaker when you present such an important topic. Whoever the hell this guy in the video is looks like he just had a heavy lunch and is half asleep. He is literally struggling to utter each word. So frustrating to listen to the lecture. Just stopped it half way. Unbearable.

Gokhale , you are a Brahmin. You are a Hindu first, a Brahmin second, and then you are a Marathi. Most Marathis are becoming extremists with their language nowadays.