Shivaji and His Times c9.s1.14

c9.s1.14

The annexation of Jawhar and Ramnagar gave the Marathas a short, safe and easy route from Kalian up Northern Konkan to Surat, and laid that port helplessly open to invasion from the south. The city became subject to chronic alarm, whenever any Maratha troops were heard of even 60 miles off, at Ramnagar.