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Examine circumstances leading to rise of Shivaji. Throw light on his legacy.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century

The emergence of Shivaji Bhosle in seventeenth-century Deccan was not an isolated feat of individual genius but the product of converging geographical, political, socio-economic and personal circumstances, whose combined effect he then converted into a lasting institutional and cultural legacy.

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  • Geographical Circumstances
  • Political Circumstances
  • Socio-Economic Circumstances
  • Personal Circumstances
  • Administrative and Institutional Legacy
  • Legitimising and Cultural Legacy
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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