About the Book: The Legacy Of Shivaji The Great
In 1707, the last effective Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb, died in Maharashtra, a
frustrated man. Even after nearly twenty-two years of war, he failed to conquer
the Marathas. With his death began the fall of the Mughal Empire that was to be
replaced by the Marathas in Central India and parts of North India. In the early
nineteenth century the British took over India not from the Mughals but from the
Marathas. Under Shivaji the Great, with the heady aim of Hindavi Swarajya
(Indian Self-Rule), the British saw the Marathas as the principal threat to
their colonial project. The