The Adilshahi kingdom of Bijapur, located in South India, was completely weakened by the fierce confrontations of Shivaji Raje. From this Shia Muslim state, Shivaji built his Hindu kingdom. The Qutb Shahi kingdom of Golconda lost its power and fell at the feet of Shivaji. Being patronized by Shivaji, the Mughals could not conquer these two kingdoms until Shivaji was alive. The Marathas continued to patronize these two states even after the death of Shivaji. Due to this, the Mughals could not conquer these states even after two years of siege. In the end, Aurangzeb himself had to come on a campaign to the south with an army and he somehow conquered Bijapur and Golconda with full force.
The fierce confrontations given by Shivaji Raje to the Mughal Empire also had dire consequences. As a result of these collisions, Aurangzeb's empire began to disintegrate like straws. With the inspiration of Shivaji, the Bundelas of Bundelkhand declared an independent Hindu state. Other Hindu chieftains also raised their heads and many Muslim rich, rebels started attacking the Mughalia Sultanate. Although Shivaji's son Sambhaji proved incompetent, the Marathas not only retained their political power but increased it further. As a result, Aurangzeb had to spend the last 25 years of his life fighting the Marathas on the southern front. Due to this chaos spread in North India. At the age of 82, Aurangzeb, old and dilapidated, left this world on the southern front in the campaign being run against the Marathas. In the last years of his life, his neck was shaken and his waist was bent at a 90 degree angle. He could hardly walk with the help of sticks but could not give up his stubbornness to defeat the Marathas. During his lifetime, the lamp of the Mughalia Sultanate started fluttering to be extinguished. Among Aurangzeb's successors, Farrukhsheer can be called the last influential emperor, who was brutally killed by the Sayyid brothers and Jodhpur King Ajit Singh in AD 1719. After that no Mughal ruler had enough power to control the empire.
In AD 1737, Shah Nadir Shah of Persia attacked India, then the weakness of the Mughals was seen by the whole of India with their own eyes. Nadir Shah entered Delhi in the summer of AD 1739. His soldiers ran into the Red Fort by stripping the Begums, princesses and the women of the big rich living in the Red Fort of Delhi and abducted their modesty. The Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah Rangeela stopped the massacre of the people by giving 70 crores to Nadir Shah. Nadir Shah, 70 crores in cash from the treasury of the Mughals, goods worth Rs 50 crores, 100 elephants, 7 thousand horses, 10 thousand camels, Kohinoor diamond, thousands of men and women (for making slaves) and the Mughals' jeweled Takht Taus Persia is gone. After this the Marathas crossed the Narmada and started raiding the Red Fort of Delhi. The Marathas took off the diamonds and jewels on the roofs of the Red Fort and the gold and silver plates on the walls and doors.
The Mughal rule was so badly damaged by the Marathas that in AD 1748, when Ahmad Shah became the emperor, the king's servants could not even imagine the collection of revenue from the farmers and subjects. Once the servants of the emperor's palace did not get their salary for a year. On this he tied a donkey and a bitch to the door of the emperor's palace. When rich people used to come to the palace, they were told to salute them first. This is Nawab Bahadur (the lover of the emperor's mother) and this is Hazrat Udhambai (the emperor's mother). When the Red Fort soldiers did not get their salaries for three years, the hungry soldiers started hustle in the markets of Delhi. On this, the people of Delhi closed the doors of the Red Fort from twelve so that the people inside the fort could not enter the city. When Amir Khan Fauj Bakshi died, the soldiers surrounded his house and did not allow the dead body to be raised until his due salary was paid. To raise this salary, even the rugs, weapons, kitchen utensils, clothes, books and instruments of Bakshi's palace were sold. Some soldiers did not get their salary even on this, so they ran away with the leftovers of Bakshi's house. In AD 1765, the East India Company separated the Mughal emperor Shah Alam (II) from the work of governance by giving him a pension. After about 7 years this pension was discontinued by Warren Hastings and in AD 1857 the East India Company captured the last Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah Zafar and sent him to Rangoon. The country's other powers had a hand in this apocalypse of the Mughals, but the rise of the Marathas under the leadership of Shivaji had a great contribution.
The echo of Shivaji's name in Indian politics was also visible in the freedom struggle. Thousands of countrymen took inspiration from the life character of Maharanas of Mewar and Chhatrapati Shivaji for the freedom campaign. Bal Gangadhar Tilak started the tradition of celebrating Ganesh Puja and Shivaji Utsav at the level of the common man in Maharashtra to organize the masses and create a sense of nationalism in them, and by giving these religious and social celebrations in a big way, they should be given national unity, religious Made an effective medium to generate consciousness and social unity. In AD 1897, Shivaji Utsav was organized at a place called Ganeshkhand in Poona. A few days after this celebration, the Commissioner of Poona, Rand celebrated the 60th anniversary of Victoria at the exact same place. Indian youth did not like this thing. Therefore, on 22 June 1897, Damodar Chapekar shot the plague commissioner of Poona, Rand and his assistant Ayrst. The Chapekar brothers were hanged. Those who had informed the government to the Chapekar brothers by being informers were killed together by two other Chapekar brothers and Natu brothers. All these events were part of the initial phase of the revolutionary movement of India. Thus, during the freedom movement, the name of Shivaji was used as a symbol of Hindu independence and the pride of Mother India.
After independence, many feature films were made on Chhatrapati Shivaji. The Government of India issued postage stamps. Large pictures and statues of Shivaji can be seen all over India. Shivaji's valor was described in hundreds of songs. Acharya Chatursen Shastri composed a novel called Rock based on the biography of Shivaji. Marathi writer Shivaji Sawant wrote a great novel titled 'Chhava' based on the biography of Shivaji's son Sambhaji.
Today, almost three and a half centuries have passed since the death of Shivaji, but after hearing the name of Shivaji, enthusiasm and joy start to swell in the veins of the Hindu caste. History never stops, it goes on. Centuries will come and go but for a very short period, the tales of this king who established a kingdom on a very small earth, will continue to sing with this glory for generations to come.