[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937) › v4.c19.116 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.116 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c19.116 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c19.116](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.116) The Marāthā people created an independent state and became an important element in the politics of the Mughul empire only under Shivājī, late in the seventeenth century. His father was Shāhjī Bhonsle, who rose from the position of a small assignee under the Sultāns of Ahmadnagar to that of a kingmaker, and finally, after his defeat by Shāh Jahān (1636) and forced migration from Mahārāshtra, became one of the leading Hindu generals of the ‘Ādil Shāhī government. His petty holdings in the Poona district, with a rent-roll of only 40,000 \*hūns\*, were given by him to his son Shivājī (born in 1627), while his later acquisitions, in Mysore and the Arcot district, were inherited by Vyankājī (also called Ekojī), his son by another wife. - [Previous: v4.c19.115](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.115) - [Next: v4.c19.117](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.117) - [Up: v4.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19) ## Cites (1) - [Ahmadnagar](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.ahmadnagar) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.116](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.burn-1937.v4.c19.116) · Pramāṇa