Chhatrapathi Shivaji

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Researcher finds reference to Shivaji Maharaj in foreign newspaper

Posted: Thursday , Sep 18, 2008 at 0221 hrs
Pune, September 17:



A reference to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj as a Master of the Country (India) has been found in a newspaper, “The London Gazette” in its issue dated February 1672 by a Pune-based researcher recently. Interestingly, the news is based on the extract of letters of the then Surat Governor. Shivaji has been referred as “Shivaji, the rebel, who having beaten the Mogul in several battles, remains almost Master of the Country.”



Saili Datar, a researcher in history found the copy of “The London Gazette” in the British Museum in London. She claimed that it was the first such reference found by any researcher which had appeared in the newspapers of that time.



“The reference of Shivaji Maharaj is in the context of the famous incident of Surati Loot of 1670. The report is written on the basis of letters sent by the Governor of Surat to Aleppo describing the condition of Surat in 1672,” said Datar. “The report also analyses the condition in Surat and there is a reference that due to plundering of Surat by Shivaji Maharaj the British rulers were forced to shift their trade base to Bombay from Surat,” she added.



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