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CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI
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He was the founder of the Maratha Empire.He led resistance to free maratha people from other rulers and established a “Hindavi Swarajya”(“self rule of hindhu people”).Shivaji was extremely devoted to his mother Jija bai. Shivaji established a competent and progressive civil rule with the help of a disciplined military and well-structured administrative organisations. He innovated military tactics, pioneering the guerilla Shiva sutra or ganimi kava methods, which leveraged strategic factors like geography, speed, and surprise and focused pinpoint attacks to defeat his larger and more powerful enemies. Shivaji was crowned king of the Marathas in a lavish ceremony at Raigad on 6 June 1674. In late March 1680, Shivaji fell ill with fever and dysentery dying around 3–5 April 1680 at the age of 52.He was succeeded by his son Sambhaji.