| Names |
Chhatrapati
SAMBHAJI BHOSLE (eldest son of Chhatrapati Shivaji, the
founder of the Maratha Empire, and his first wife Saibai). |
| Date of Birth |
May 14, 1657
- at Purandar Fort, Near Pune, India. |
| Date of
Death |
March 11, 1689,
Pune, India. |
|
Identity |
He was
successor of the empire after Shivaji's death. |
|
Date-wise Events |
- June 11, 1665: At the age of nine, Sambhaji was sent to live with
Raja Jai Singh of Amber, as a political
hostage to ensure compliance of the Treaty of
Purandar that Shivaji had signed with the Mughals on 11 June
1665. As a result of the treaty, Sambhaji became a
Mughal sardar and served the Mughal
court of Aurangzeb and the father and son duo
fought along the Mughals against Bijapur.
- May 12, 1666: He and his father Shivaji presented themselves at
Aurangzeb's court at Agra on this day.
Aurangzeb put both of them under house arrest.
- August 17, 1666: He and his
father both escaped from Auranzeb's confinement by wayof
house arrest.
|
| General |
- His mother died when he was two and he was
raised by his paternal grandmother Jijabai.
- Sambhaji and 25 of his advisors were captured
by the Mughal forces of Muqarrab Khan in a skirmish at
Sangameshwar in February 1689.
- The captured Sambhaji and Kavi Kalash were taken to
Bahadurgad, where Aurangzeb humiliated them.
He was ordered to bow before Auguranzeb and convert to
Islam, and it was his refusal to do so that
lead to his martyrdom. By doing so he earned the title of
Dharmaveer ("protector of dharma").
- Aurangzeb ordered Sambhaji and Kavi Kalash to be
tortured to death; Sambhaji was finally killed in
11 March 1689.
- The Maratha confederacy was thrown into disarray
by Sambhaji's death, and his younger step-brother
Rajaram assumed the throne.
- A few days after Sambhaji's death, the capital
Raigad fell to the Mughals and Sambhaji's wife and
son were captured.
- Rajaram shifted the Maratha capital far south to Jinji.
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