The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

by William Dalrymple

Aurangzeb dismissed Shivaji as a ‘desert rat’. But by the time of his death in 1680, Shivaji had turned himself into Aurangzeb’s nemesis, leaving behind him a name as the great symbol of Hindu resistance and revival after 500 years of Islamic rule.