Synopsis: Even as a child, Sambhaji knew that he needed to fend for himself. His mother passed away when he was hardly two. His father, the great Shivaji, was always busy chasing his dream of ‘Swaraj’ (or self-governance) and keeping the vicious Mughal emperor Aurangzeb at bay. Sambhaji is the eldest son of Shivaji. He Read more…

Synopsis: 1641-1660 was probably the most important period in India’s resistance against a long and oppressive Islamic rule. The Indian subcontinent was under the brutal control of three tyrannical sultanates – the powerful and despotic Mughals, who stand glorified in our textbooks today, in the North, and the Shia rulers, Adilshah and Qutubshah, down South. Read more…