Influence of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on the Indian Nationalist Movement (Part 1) 🧵 “Sivaji cult got up by extreme politicians to further their anti-British propaganda.”
English newspaper, 1907

A colonial admission acknowledging the political use and nationalist influence of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s legacy during the anti-British movement.

"The history of Shivaji’s military exploits only presents to our view one side of the working of his master-mind, and we are too apt to forget that he had other and stronger claims upon our attention as a civil ruler...

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....Like the first Napoleon, Shivaji in his time was a great organiser, and a builder of civil institutions, which conduced largely to the success of the movement initiated by him, and which alone enabled the country to pass unscathed through the dangers which...

🧵 Remembering Krantiagrani G.D. Lad on his birth anniversary. Ganapati Dada “Bapu” Lad was born on 6 December 1922 in Kundal, Satara district, in a middle-class farming family. His early life shaped the disciplined and grounded leadership he later became known for.

🧵 One of the boldest jail escapes in India’s freedom struggle was attempted by Vasantdada Patil and his comrades. During the British rule, Vasantdada had multiple charges against him burning trains, attacking police stations, destroying telephone and radio lines. Naturally, the British locked him up.