[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Shivaji and His Times](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919) › c19.s2.5 # Shivaji and His Times c19.s2.5 Shivaji and His Times c19.s2.5 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c19.s2.5) Shivaji aimed at preserving the rents; he wished to save from Mughal attack a Hindu society to which ceremonial distinctions and isolation of castes are the very breath of life. He wanted to make this heterogeneous society triumphant over \*all\* India! He wove ropes of sand; he attempted the impossible. It is beyond the power of any man, it is opposed to the divine law of the universe, to establish the swaraj of such a caste-ridden, isolated, internally-torn sect over a vast continent like India."\* - [Previous: c19.s2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c19.s2.4) - [Next: c19.s2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c19.s2.6) - [Up: c19.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c19.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c19.s2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c19.s2.5) · Pramāṇa