Will his princely stature become a prestige issue and blow the lid over their true identities? No such thing happened. The accompanying Brahmin priest wondered how the young lad will pull it off. "Eat in the same plate, if you two are really father and son from a priestly family," the soldiers ordered. The maturity of the young lad was seen in the way he handled the time he was near Mathura secretly on his way back to Maharashtra) disguised as a Brahmin priest's child and was accosted by Mughal soldiers who suspected that he was Sambhaji the young Maratha prince. How they escaped from Agra is the stuff that inspiring stories are made of. For almost three months, the father-son duo was held under house arrest. The famous Escape From Agra:Īurangzeb had invited the two for his birthday celebrations at the Darbar but imprisoned them by deceit. Aurangzeb had seen Sambahji Raje in 1966 as well when the feisty Shambhu Raje had accompanied his brave father to the Mughal court in Agra. Meanwhile, Sambhaji Maharaj continued to fight alongside his generals in all battles and wars at hand. Shambhu Raje had promised him assistance to fight Aurangzeb. Sambhaji had prepared well for the invasions and the Maratha forces promptly engaged the numerically strong Mughal army in several small battles using guerilla warfare tactics.Īurangzeb's son Akbar had approached Sambhaji Raje for help. He intended to use the Mughal numerical superiority to his advantage. In 1682, Aurangzeb tried attacking the Maratha Empire from all directions. To quell this rebellion and to try to finish off the Maratha empire, Aurangzeb left Delhi with 4-5 lakh soldiers and headed to Khirki - what is today's Aurangabad in Maharashtra. In 1681, Aurangzeb's fourth son Akbar reached Deccan (variation for Dakshin or the South) and tried to consolidate forces against his father's rule in Delhi. He began forcing conversions of the local Indians to Islam and imposed the Jizya tax on non-Muslims.Īfter Shivaji Maharaj's death, Sambhaji had several challenges on hand: the Mughals in the north, and other neighbouring powers such as the Siddis, Mysore and the Portuguese in Goa.Īurangzeb's son Akbar rebels against father: After killing his brothers in cold blood and imprisoning the father - the builder of the Taj Mahal - he is said to have killed brother Dara Shikoh's two sons and forced his widows to marry him. Aurangzeb had succeeded his father Shah Jahan by treachery and fratricide of his three brothers. Sambhaji Maharaj had witnessed the lengths the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb would go to annihilate any challenge to the Mughal might. Sambhaji Maharaj succeeds Shivaji Maharaj after latter's death:
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