Formation of "Vokkaliga" caste identity started under British rule.
Any examples of usage of word "Vokkaliga" before british era meant that the said community is a cultivator. So anyone who cultivated land be it Dalits, Blacksmiths or Kurubas etc were considered as vokkaligas.
@GhotalePatil Congressis burnt houses and some so called chitpavans like bhalchandra jog were also involved in burning brahmin houses. Despite caste conflicts started by section of self proclaimed brahmins Kulin Marathas like Mane and Mohite saved many brahmins.
Yesterday on Ram Navami sant dyneshwar maharaj was dressed up as maharaja mahadji Shinde. Mahadji Shinde was follower of varkari sampraday and was officially intiated by mallappa maharaj Vaskar. He constructed Sabha mandap, ghat, gates etc in temple at alandi.
Seal of Antāji Mankeshwar Gandhe, the heroic Sardar who smashed the Durrani forces at Battle of Narela with a handful of men, and participated in the Capture of Delhi (1757) from Rohillas.
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and later employed him at Satara and made him a Kulkarni. After surviving the hallowed fields of Panipat, Antāji Mankeshwar attained Vīrgati as Balochi gangs ambushed him at Farrukhnagar.
Seal of Antāji Mankeshwar Gandhe, the heroic Sardar who smashed the Durrani forces at Battle of Narela with a handful of men, and participated in the Capture of Delhi (1757) from Rohillas.
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Hindupati Padshah Chattrapati Shahuji Maharaja gave him the name 'Gandhe' because he used to apply Gandha on Chhatrapati's forehead. He was an extremely loyal servant to Shahuji Maharaja throughout his lifetime. Maharaja knew him as a boy from the time he was in Mughal captivity,
@Rajnaya23 @RaghujiRajeStan @Abhishe83666961 👆 False, she was only daughter of his only wife, Sri Badan Kanwar Baiji Sahiba, daughter of Rao Bahadur Thakur Shri Jai Singhji, Thakur of Osian, in Umednagar
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Maharaja Fatehsinghrao II Gaekwad, older son of Maharaja Pratapsinhrao Gaekwad with wife Maharani Padmavatiraje Gaekwad, also Princess of Jodhpur. She was better known as Susan Gaekwad, ca 1952.
Maharaja Fatehsinghrao II Gaikwad received 15 lakh rs in dowary, 47 attendants who accompanied princess from Jodhpur as per Rajput tradition, one elephant,17 horses, 5 cars, arms, ornaments and one ice factory.
Chhatrapati sambhaji's Sack of Burhanpur which was mughal capital of Deccan and third richest city of Mughals as well as Favourite city of Aurangzeb is very underrated.The loot gathered from this attack was probably more than 2 sacks of Surat by Chhattrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
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1453 AD Bahmani Sultanate's forces invade Konkan led by their finest general Khalaf Hasan Basri titled Malik ut Tujjar.
Bahmani army defeat Raja Vajrapala II/Vangoji Shirke of Khelna and force him convert, he agrees to it only if his neighbour
Shrimant Brigadier SJS Bhonsale, conqueror of Daman, was from Titvaikar Bhonsale clan from where boys used to be adopted on Kolhapur Gaadi when heirless . He was my father Sh. Jaywantrao Gulabrao Mahurkar’s ( Salunke) Daji (brother-in-law).His mother-in -law & my grandmother were real sisters. @TMahrattas
Deccani Portrait of Hindu ruler, probably Maratha, smoking a huqqa accompanied by two attendants.
From Hyderabad or North Deccan, Late 18th/ Early 19th Century.