The longest battle of the Mughals went on with the Marathas.
It has been two years since the war between Israel and Hamas in the Middle East. In this battle that started on 7 October 2023, Gaza is almost destroyed and most of the leadership of Hamas has also ended. However, now the US President Donald Trump is ready for a compromise on the basis of peace plan, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he will continue the campaign to bring back every Israeli mortgage and will end the rule of Hamas. On this excuse, let us know which was the longest war of the Mughals and why this happened? What was the result of this?
In the first battle of Panipat in 1526, Babur defeated Sultan Ibrahim Lodi of Delhi and laid the foundation of the Mughal Empire in India. After this, the rule of the Mughals continued till 1857. Meanwhile, the Mughals fought all the battles to establish their empire over India.
The longest battle fought with the Marathas
After Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan to Aurangzeb attacked Indian kings to fulfill their ambitions and also won in all the wars. After the victory in these wars, most of the rulers came under the flag of the Mughals, but the Mughal pulses in the South (Deccan) never completely strengthened. Even Aurangzeb continued to fight the last 27 years of his life with the Marathas, but he did not achieve anything other than a sporadic victory. This is called the longest war of Mughals. During this war, Aurangzeb won different regions of the Maratha Empire but could never capture the Deccan completely.
Aurangzeb even removed the brothers from the road for power.
Rise of Aurangzeb and Shivaji
Shah Jahan’s son Alamgir i.e. Aurangzeb was the sixth Mughal emperor, who ruled from 1658 to 1707. In the fight for succession, he acquired the throne by eliminating Dara Shikoh, Shuja and Murad etc. He was the last powerful Mughal emperor, who expanded his empire greatly and in this episode continued to take on the Mughals. On the other hand, the Maratha Empire in the south was founded by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. First he won by fighting battles against the Sultan of Bijapur. Then opened a front against the Mughals. After this, he laid the foundation of Hindavi Swarajya by making Raigad his capital. In this way the Maratha Empire started and in 1674 he assumed the title of Chhatrapati.
Aurangzeb sent the army to face Shivaji but did not run in front of the Marathas.
Aurangzeb was the Governor of Deccan
Before becoming the king of Delhi, Aurangzeb was given the command of the South in 1636. Shah Jahan sent Aurangzeb to South to avoid the disputes between his sons in Delhi, who finished the Nizam Shahi there and made his hideout in Aurangabad. In 1652, Aurangzeb was once again given the responsibility of South. Meanwhile, there was sporadic clash with the Mughals with the Marathas. In the year 1657, Shivaji attacked the Junar, which was the Mughal -dominated Junar, looted his treasure, which raised Aurangzeb. Aurangzeb sent the army to face Shivaji but did not run in front of the Marathas. Meanwhile, when the issue of succession started arising in Delhi, Aurangzeb went to Delhi and Maratha kept expanding.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
Shivaji under house arrest in Agra
It is a matter of the year 1666. Shivaji had to make a treaty of Purandar in the war led by King Jai Singh. Due to this, he had to give many forts to the Mughals, after which Shivaji was called by Aurangzeb to Agra. There he did not give proper respect to him, but Shivaji along with son Sambhaji was under house arrest. However, Shivaji escaped by hiding in fruits baskets with his son. After this, he went on to become a canker for Aurangzeb.
Aurangzeb left Delhi
Seeing the strength of the Marathas increasing, in the beginning of 1680, Delhi left Vaibhav and left for Aurangzeb Deccan. Aurangzeb, along with a heavy army, his sons, harem and walking court, camped in the battlefield and won Bijapur in 1686 after a 15-month long and cruel struggle. A year later, Golconda also came under him. This ended the Sultanate of the Deccan and only the Marathas left in front of the Mughals. However, due to its geographical location and guerrilla war policy, the Marathas continued to overshadow the Mughals. Shivaji withdrew many of his lost forts. Then the Maratha led by Shivaji remained politically united. Due to this, Aurangzeb was not able to achieve any special success and this series continued till Shivaji’s death.
Red Fort.
Sambhaji plagued
After Shivaji’s death, his elder Sambhaji Maharaj sat on the Maratha throne in the year 1681. He too continued to face the Mughals like his father. In the year 1681, he attacked Burhanpur and defeated Auranzeb’s army, continuously fighting guerrilla war against the Mughals and uniting the Marathas. However, in 1689, due to the deceit of his brother -in -law Ganoji, Sambhaji was caught by the Mughals in Sangameshwar. He was tortured a lot. He was asked to accept Islam, but he did not listen to any of Aurangzeb. Due to this, on 11 March 1689, Aurangzeb hanged him in Tulapur near Pune.
There are many stories of the battle of Mughals and Marathas in history.
And Aurangzeb’s dream remained incomplete
Even after Sambhaji, the entire Maratha Empire could not be captured by the Mughals. After Sambhaji, his half -brother Rajaram took command of the Marathas. He also kept facing the Mughals. He led the empire from the fort of Ginji/Jinji in Tamil Nadu. Later, when he died in Satara in the year 1700, his wife Tarabai led the resistance of the Marathas against the Mughals. Till 1714, she was the head of the Marathas and did not allow the Mughals to monopoly on the Maratha Empire.
However, in the meantime, in the year 1707, Aurangzeb died in Ahmednagar due to illness at the age of 88 and the war of succession started in his sons. In this way, Aurangzeb’s dream of defeating the Marathas completely and Aurangzeb could never be fulfilled.
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