It's a well known fact that the history of Shivaji the great hero of BJP/RSS/Congress/Subaltern Shudras is marred by his questionable parentage.
Shivaji was born during many years of estrangement between Jijabai and Shahaji. Was he a child of (Jijabai's?) passion and with whom?
According to the contemporary (1666) biography of Shiva "ji", by Cosme De Guarda titled "Vida e Acçoens do famoso e felicissimo Sevagy", he was stated to be the son of Dom Manoel de Menezes, the person who was the overlord of the place where Jijabai lived during her estrangement.
With the help of a friend not anymore on twitter, I got my hands on probably the oldest copy of any work on Shiva"ji", which dates back to 1730, 150+ years before Marathi regional chauvinists like Phule and Tilak created his fake hype.
1730 cc of the original (Use Google Lens).
During the same period, Father Navarette who came to India in 1670 wrote that Shiva"Ji" was born a Mughal, the same was said by another work from 1677 titled "Relation ou Journal d'un voyage fait aux Indes Orientales"
The English Factory OTOH, wrongly called Shiva"Ji" a Rajput.
We have to understand that this part of Shiva Ji being a Rajput is a common misconception and false propaganda spread by Marathas and most subaltern classes by associating themselves with the Rajputs.
This practice of Subaltern/Non-Rajput classes is what's called Rajputization.
As you can see, Shiva Ji's official father Shah Ji in a letter to Sultan Adil Shah according to the work Radha Madhav Vilas Champu says "आम्ही तों रजपूत", meaning I am a Rajput.
At the same time these could very well be forged documents.
Regardless, he was not a Rajput.
At the same time we find in the book by James Laine a popular Marathi discourse that the real father of Shiva Ji was Dadaji Konddev - his Brahmin guardian, who also lived during Shah Ji's estrangement with Jijabai.
The logic given is the same as that for Dom Manoel de Menezes.
So who was real the father of Shiva Ji?
His official father Shah Ji, Dom Manoel de Menezes, a Mughal, a Rajput or the Brahmin Dadaji Konddeo. We may never know, since all research on him is restricted by Subaltern Politics.
If you have more information, feel free to add.
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