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Culture and History

Maratha warrior Raghuji Bhosale’s iconic sword returns to India: Read about the founder of Nagpur Bhosale dynasty who consolidated the Maratha Empire

Shraddha Pandey - 30 April, 2025

The Maharashtra government has acquired the historic sword of Maratha general Raghuji Bhosale I for ₹47.15 lakh from a London auction.

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Chhaava triggers old debate: As Islamists boast about alleged Mughal ‘victory’ over Marathas, here is how descendants of Aurangzeb live today

Rukma Rathore - 21 February, 2025

In 2021 and 2024, Sultana Begum made claims to the Red Fort but the Delhi High Court rejected her arguments both times.

News Reports

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s descendent takes ‘matters into his own hands’ to reclaim Vishalgadh Fort from encroachers Islamising the Maratha heritage: Details

Siddhi Somani - 17 July, 2024

The Vishalgadh Fort, one of the relics of the enduring legacy of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, had recently fallen prey to the encroachers trying to expand a mosque built in its premises.

Culture and History

Editor of fraud-accused National Herald claims ‘Shivaji’s army’ raped women: The lies, perversion of history, the Bengal conquest and what we know

Gopal Tiwari - 11 April, 2023

It is because of the decisive defeat of and subsequent heavy ransom imposed on the Mughal governor of Bengal that liberals often paint the revenge Maratha forces took for 22 commanders' murders in Bengal as atrocities and try to insinuate that even Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's army committed rapes because he too hailed from the Bhosale clan.

Culture and History

Baji Prabhu Deshpande: The Maratha warrior who sacrificed his life for Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj

Jinit Jain - 14 July, 2021

Today is the 361st punyathiti(death anniversary) of Maratha warrior Baji Prabhu Deshpande, who laid down his life in the famous rearguard battle of Pavankhind to save Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

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