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Mitwah posted:

Prash as the article says: 

Many Indian heroes emerged during these dark times , including the 10th Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh and also the Hindu Maratha king , Shivaji Maratha  who led the resistance against this tyranny and eventually led to its defeat by the late 1700s  after centuries of death and destruction.

Shivaji Maratha was indeed, from a military perspective, a great warrior king. He revived Hinduism in the parts of India that he had conquered. Nevertheless; at the same time he brutalized and exploited poor Hindus with his various tax collection schemes. This was worse than their former Muslim rulers had imposed on them. 

Prashad
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