Shivaji and His Times c10.s1.5

c10.s1.5

The higher minds of Maharashtra, too, had begun to look up to Shivaji as the champion of Hinduism, and wished to see the Hindu race elevated to full stature of its political growth by the formal assertion of his position as an independent king. They longed for the Hindu swaraj, and that implied a Hindu chhatrapati. (Sabh. 82.)