A history of India by Hoernle August Friedrich Rudolf 1841-1918 & Stark Herbert Alick

Author:Hoernle, August Friedrich Rudolf, 1841-1918 & Stark, Herbert Alick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: India -- History
Publisher: Cuttack, Orissa Mission Press

II reigned only in name from 1806 to 1837. His successor, Muhammad Bahadur Shah, the last of Timur's line, joined the rebels in the Sepoy Mutiny ("1857), and was exiled to Rangoon, where he died in 1862, Thus ends the history of the once glorious Empire of Delhi.

Section II. The Rise and the Fall of the Marathas.

WHILE Shah Jahan reigned at Delhi, the Marathas were growing into power. In chapter VI they have been referred to under their original name Rathiyas. They lived in the table- Marathas. lands of the Deccan, and on the mountains and plains of the Konkan. But their dominions expanded until they included Orissa, Malwa, Nagpur, Kandesh, the Berars, the Nizam's Dominions, and the Konkan from Goa to the Gulf of Cambay. They had been subdued by the early Muhammadan invaders of India, and from the reign of Akbar to that of Aurangzeb part of Maharashtra was subject to the Mughal Empire, while the rest of it was ruled over by the Muhammadan kings of Ahmadnagar and Bijapur. They became powerful under Shaji Bhonsla, a daring chief who owned forts at Poona and Junir. In 1634 he aided Ahmadnagar and Bijapur against the Mughals. His son, Sivaji, succeeded him ; and by his talents as a soldier, he made the Mughals respect the Marathas.

Sivaji was born in 1627. From his very boyhood he joined in plunder and bloodshed. At the Sivaii

age of sixteen he was already the leader of a band of robbers, and had set himself to repair his father's mountain forts. From these he used to attack the dwellers of the plains, plunder them, or take chant and tribute, and then return to his mountain fastnesses. The Sultan of Bijapur at last sent a powerful army under Afzal Khan against him. Sivaji pretended to be humbled. He begged for pardon, and promised to become an ally. He asked ^r a friendly meeting with Afzal Khan, so that he might make peace with him. The General fixed the

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