But there were many people who had the guts and valor that they started an armed struggle against Britishers. Many people kept quiet saying that “British rule is boon for us”. In the early nineteenth century, after the fall of the Maratha empire in 1818, Britishers started their tyrannical rule. Every revolutionary freedom fighter from Maharashtra was influenced by Chhatrapati Shivaji’s persona and his ideal. Maharashtra, the Janmbhoomi, and Karmabhoomi of Chhatrapati Shivaji celebrates him as a god. Is it mere coincidence that in all three regions Chhatrapati Shivaji was a source of inspiration? Chhatrapati Shivaji’s influence in Bombay province (Now MAHARASHTRA) An important element of the play was that the writer wrote many incidents to inspire the youth against the tyranny of Britishers.ĭuring the freedom struggle, revolutionaries were mainly produced in what was then Bombay province, Bengal, and Punjab. Assamese writer named Atul Chandra Hazarika wrote a play on Chhatrapati Shivaji in 1928 in which he covered the journey of Chhatrapati Shivaji from his boyhood to coronation. In this poet saw Chhatrapati Shivaji as Mukti Daata of Hindus from Mlechha.Ĭhhatrapati Shivaji was celebrated as a national hero in Assam. Kannada poet Srinivas wrote a poem on Chhatrapati Shivaji named Malgavel. Famous Telugu writer Sri Kamaraju Venkat Lakshamanrao wrote a brief poem on Chhatrapati Shivaji and depicted him as the initiator of freedom, protector of Veda, Cow, country, and warrior. How can the ideals of a person who lived in the seventeenth century influence revolutionary movements that took place in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? Let’s see in this piece that how Chhatrapati Shivaji influenced freedom fighters throughout the length and breadth of Bharat.Ĭhhatrapati Shivaji was seen as a national hero throughout the country from Punjab to Assam and even in southern Bharat. He boosted the confidence of native Bharatiyas whose valor and self-respect had been suppressed by repeated invasions, loots, plunders, and massacres by foreign invaders.Ĭhhatrapati Shivaji and his ideas had a huge influence on the Bharatiya freedom struggle that started two centuries after his death. Chhatrapati Shivaji was the person who not just gave the idea of Bharat but also built an empire on it.
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