{"id":11366,"date":"2023-06-02T02:58:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T21:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11366"},"modified":"2025-03-30T02:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T20:40:13","slug":"who-was-chhatrapati-shivaji-maharaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/who-was-chhatrapati-shivaji-maharaj\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>He was the <strong>founder of the Maratha Empire in western India<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>He was <strong>born on February 19, 1630<\/strong> <strong>to Shahaji Bhosle and Jijabai<\/strong> <strong>in<\/strong> the <strong>fort of Shivneri,<\/strong> near the city of Junnar of the Pune district.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>With his valor and great administrative skills, S<strong>hivaji carved out an enclave from the declining Adilshahi sultanate of Bijapur<\/strong>. It eventually became the genesis of the Maratha Empire.<\/li>\n<li>He was <strong>known as the Father of Indian Navy<\/strong>, Shivaji was the <strong>first to realise the importance of having a naval force,<\/strong> and therefore he strategically <strong>established a navy and forts at the coastline<\/strong> to defend the Konkan side of Maharashtra.<\/li>\n<li>He <strong>was a secular ruler<\/strong> who was very accommodating of all religions. He <strong>had numerous Muslim soldiers<\/strong> in his army.<\/li>\n<li>Shivaji was a <strong>dependable supporter of women and their honour<\/strong>. Anyone under his rule caught <strong>violating woman&#8217;s rights was severely punished.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He <strong>had a council of ministers (Asht Pradhan)<\/strong> <strong>to advise him<\/strong> on the matters of the state <strong>but he was not bound by it.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He <strong>was called as the &#8216;Mountain Rat&#8217; and was widely known for his guerrilla warfare tactics<\/strong>. He was called so because of his awareness in geography of his land, and guerrilla tactics like raiding, ambushing and surprise attacks on his enemies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about Raigad fort:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>hill fort<\/strong> situated in <strong>Raigad district, Maharashtra.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is situated in the <strong>Sahyadri mountain ranges<\/strong> or the western ghats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>one of the strongest-ever fortresses of the Deccan Plateau<\/strong> and is <strong>known as the \u2018Gibraltar of the East\u2019 <\/strong>across the world.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>seized by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in 1656 from Chandraraoji More<\/strong>, the King of Jawali.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Several structures and other constructions in Raigad <strong>were developed by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He <strong>made this his capital in 1674<\/strong>, <strong>after being crowned as the king of the entire Maratha<\/strong> <strong>Kingdom<\/strong> and later on, the Maratha Empire.<\/li>\n<li>The fort <strong>was the location for an armed campaign executed by the British East India Company in 1765.<\/strong> On May 9, 1818, the fort was looted and subsequently destroyed by British forces.<\/li>\n<li>The fort also<strong> overlooks an artificial lake known as the \u2018Ganga Sagar Lake\u2019.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Who was Ashta Pradhan?<\/h3>\n<p>The Ashta Pradhan (also termed Asta Pradhan or the Council of 8) was a council of eight ministers that administered the Maratha empire. The council was formed in 1674 by their king, Shivaji.\u00a0The body discharged the functions of a modern council of ministers; this is regarded as one of the first successful instances of ministerial delegation in India.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/india\/350th-anniversary-celebrations-of-shivaji-maharajs-coronation-begin-in-maha-cm-dycm-take-part-in-state-event\/1607633\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>350th anniversary celebrations of Shivaji Maharaj\u2019s coronation begin in Maha; CM, DyCM take part in state event<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was the founder of the Maratha Empire in western India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}