Excerpt from The Romance of Simghurd
It was the year 1670, and stirring times in the land of Inde, where, as yet, England's power rested in embryo. The biggest battlefield was the Dekkan, on which, for long years, Mogul rule had been struggling for the supremacy with the kings of its various States. For five years these rulers had been held in conquered submission to the Moslem power, then represented by the famous Emperor Aurungzeeb, when that power was again threatened by a scorned ally, who had become a dangerous foe.
The year was big with the birth-throes of a new people destined to hold a powerful sway only to be overthrown, in a much later day, by the resistless onward sweep of our own nation. A small mountain tribe of freebooters had suddenly come to the front of affairs as a brave, dauntless race that would be heard. Sivaji, the maker of the race, and founder of the Marathi kingdom, was a bold, daring man, who saw and seized his opportunities.
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