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Shivaji’s rise to power cannot be treated as an isolated phenomenon in Maratha history. It was as much the result of his personal daring and heroism as of the peculiar geographical situation of the Deccan country and the unifying religious influences that were animating the people with new hopes and aspirations in the 15th and 16th centuries. Explain

  • UPSC 1996
  • Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century

Shivaji's meteoric rise in the mid-17th century has too often been read as a purely individual feat of daring; the more defensible view treats him as the figure who crystallised long-building geographical, political, and religious currents in the Deccan.

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  • The Geographical Situation of the Deccan
  • The Political Fragmentation of the Deccan Sultanates
  • The Unifying Religious Influences: Bhakti and Maharashtra Dharma
  • Personal Daring within This Framework

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