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Was Shivaji a nationalist leader

  • UPSC 1985
  • Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century

Calling Shivaji a "nationalist" imports a modern, pan-Indian idea of nation into a 17th-century regional struggle — the label needs careful qualification.

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