CHATRAPATI SHIVAJI MAHARAJ

  . TANHAJI MALUSURE Shivaji Raje's best friend from his childhood was Tanhaji Malusure. He was associated right from the beginning with  Shivaji and played the main role when the very  first  Fort " Torana "was conquered and swarajya mission began against all odds . Among all the friends of Shivaji ,Tanhaji was very close to Jijau also   and Jijau had full trust in  Tanhahji .  In early days  whenever Shivaji used to go to accomplish any mission Jijau used to ensure  that Tanhaji is accompanying Shivaji.  Tanhaji was excellent organizer and was an inspiring person for people in the surrounding villages .Together they fought and won several battles and laid the solid foundation of Swarajya along with other associates like Yesaji kank and Bahirji Naik.  Tanhaji's maternal uncle  "Shelar mama "used to share his experience with Tanhaji and his  younger brother Suryaji used to be second in command. Shivaji Raje had conferred ...

  HIROJI INDULKAR Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya was one of the greatest engineers of India who belonged to the 20 th century . The greatest architect and engineer of 17 th century was perhaps Hiroji Indulkar who was one of the jewels, Chhatrapati Shivaji proudly possessed. Hiroji became close associate of Shivaji Maharaj ever since Shivaji Maharaj won the Rairi fort in 1656 from Chandrakant More who was self proclaimed king of Jawali area. After winning the Fort Shivaji Raje surveyed the area and thought that the place had a very good potential to be future capital of Swarajya .The area was strategically located and there was dense forest around. It was very difficult for any enemy to approach and conquer the place. Raje decided to develop the area however sufficient finance was not available then . Shivaji Raje had many specialists in his team and Hiroji Indulkar was one of them who was totally devoted to the assigned task without expecting any reward. Hiroji b...

  BAHIRJI NAIK Since Bahirji Naik was himself the  spy  not many things are known about him .His movements and assignments used to be secret missions .  Bahirji Naik was name given to him by Shivaji himself . His original name was Daulat and he was associated with Shivaji right from the beginning when Shivaji used to live in Lal Mahal of Pune.In those days, around Pune there was dense forest and when Shivaji's mother wanted to develop Pune from the scratch ;she wanted to reduce the menace  of wolves in the forest. Jijau had announced that whoever will bring tail of  wolf   will be rewarded. Daulat who was barely  of 14- 15 years age killed many "Landge" and with the bunch of their tails he visited Lal Mahal. Jijau ,mother of Shivaji , was perplexed to see so many tails and for each tail she rewarded gold bracelet  to Daulat. Daulat however was not interested in Gold but wanted to meet Shivaji in person. Jijau also wanted such dare devils to...

JEEVA MAHALA Once Shivaji Raje was going through a small village and found that  Jeeva Mahala a young 13 years old boy was surrounded by crowd. Shivaji joined them to understand what is going on . The young boy was moving his belt with supersonic speed and there were several targets around him . The fast moving belt used to suddenly come to zero speed immediately after hitting the target. There were many water melons and  small size lemons around as targets for Jeeva and one after other Jeeva was cutting them in two pieces. After every accurate shot crowd used to cheer Jeeva. Jeeva took the rest when the new targets were installed. After carefully observing the distance of each Target Jeeva's eyes were covered and he was blinded. He started swinging his belt again and to the surprise of everyone he hit every target .He demonstrated that he was not only accurate but precise as well. Shivaji Raje was deeply impressed by this superb skill and  personally requested Jiva to jo...