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• On the 350th year of the Coronation Day of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the Prime Minister remembered the valor of Shivaji Maharaj.

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• He was born on February 19, 1630, at the Shivneri fort in Pune district in present-day Maharashtra state.
•  He was born in the house of Shahaji Bhonsle, a Maratha general.
•  He held the jagirs of Pune and Supe under the Bijapur Sultanate and his mother, Jijabai, was a pious lady whose religious qualities had a profound influence on him.
•  He displayed his military prowess for the first time in 1645, when he successfully gained control of the Torana fort under Bijapur as a teenager.
•  He also captured the Kondana fort.  Both these forts were under Adil Shah of Bijapur.
•  Shivaji defeated Shaista Khan (Aurangzeb’s maternal uncle) and a large force of the Bijapur army at Pune in the year 1659.
•  Shivaji captured the Mughal trading port of Surat in the year 1664.
•  In June 1665, the Treaty of Purandar was signed between Shivaji and Raja Jai ​​Singh I (representing Aurangzeb).
•  As per this treaty, the Marathas had to cede several forts to the Mughals and Shivaji agreed to meet Aurangzeb at Agra.  Shivaji agreed to send his son Sambhaji also to Agra.
•  Shivaji was crowned as the King of the Marathas on 6 June 1674 at Raigad.
•  He assumed the titles of Chhatrapati, Shakkarta, Kshatriya Kulwant and Handav Dharmadhakar.
•  Death: He died on April 3, 1680.