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Shivaji was not merely a military conqueror but also was an enlighened ruler. Discuss.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century

Shivaji's reputation rests, in popular memory, chiefly on his military exploits against Bijapur and the Mughals, but a closer look at his reign shows an equally significant record of institution-building, administrative reform and inclusive governance that justifies calling him an enlightened ruler as much as a conqueror.

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  • Shivaji as a Military Conqueror
  • Shivaji as an Institution-Builder: Administration
  • Shivaji as an Institution-Builder: Military and Judicial Systems
  • Shivaji as a Benevolent and Tolerant Statesman
  • The Verdict of Contemporaries and Historians

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