Thread by @HindutvaItihas

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Short #thread on some of the valuable contributions of Mahadji Scindia to re-establish Hindu policies at Delhi in 1789.

1789 was the 1st centenary year of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Punyatithi. So, these events assume a special significance too.

https://twitter.com/HindutvaItihas/status/1369862983879450624

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1789, Jan: Mahadji Scindia re-acquired Delhi, and incorporated it into the Maratha confederacy. He remarks in a letter:

"Just like Satara, Delhi is also now our Sansthan. To put it in order is upto us."

[Sansthan = Semi-autonomous state within empire/confederacy]

#Delhi

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In the early 1789, Nana Fadnavis (influential minister of Peshwa) wrote to Mahadji Scindia:

"Restoration of the Kashi Vishwanath Mandir is appropriate for Hindu Dharma..."

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"...We have to do this, it will carve our names on the Hindu (minds), serve the State, & increase prestige"

#KashiVishwanath #Kashi #Hindutva #Temples

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1789, Sep 4: Mahadji Scindia told Shah Alam to issue a firman *banning cow slaughter all over his Mughal territories.*

The firman notes: "Human & animal lives are dependent on the cow... We are banning all cow slaughter throughout our lands..."

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"... No village, town, settlement should indulge in cow slaughter... Violators will be punished by the Badshah"

#GauRaksha

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1790, May: Mahadji Scindia told Shah Alam to prepare grants to give Mathura-Vrindavan holy places to Marathas, away from Muslim control.

1790, Aug: The holy places were finally granted by Shah Alam to Marathas.

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It is said that if it wasn't for Mahadji Scindia's death in 1794, Mathura would've eventually been made the northern Capital of Maratha empire by him!

#MahadjiScindia #HindaviSwarajya #HinduPadPadshahi #Hindutva #Mathura

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