Shivaji The Grand Rebel

by Dennis Kincaid

A Maratha who has only one penny left will spend that on butter to smear on his fingers and then sit at the door of his house washing his hands to give his neighbours the impression that he has just dined sumptuously.2

Typical Maratha

An anonymous Englishman41 writing in 1788, said that he had seen bodies of fifty to sixty thousand Maratha horse42 advance across country for many days in succession at the rate of fifty miles a day.

Shivaji's cavalry

They had a narrow escape at Ujjain where a Mogul police officer, watching Sambhaji closely, came to the conclusion that his demeanour was hardly that of a priest’s son.

Sambhaji at Ujjain