DrSloth

So , it looks like by next week the entire Northern and western sector will have drills >Delhi (April) >Rajasthan (today) >Punjab (24th April) >Kishtwar (tomorrow) >Anantnag and Udhampur (24 April) >Meghalaya (24 April) Justice will be served , we are always ready : ADGPI

Since another Hindutva film is set to be released, based on Shivaji zamindar of Raigarh, here are two contemporary accounts comparing his rule with the Muslim rule. English factory letter (Karwar to Bombay), dated 1 July 1675 CE, informs about the pitiful condition of his subjects and their wish and prayers for liberation through the establishment of Muslim rule. “... under Sevagees (Shivaji's) government, they have robbed all the country people soe much as to the seed they should sowe, soe that the next year the men will be ready to eat one another for the new crop will be very small, all people pray that the moores (i.e., Muslims) may come and regaine (i.e., rule) the country and there is a rumor that they will come after the raines, Timmanna waited their coming to joyne them a few dayes more will discover that certainty...” Dr. John Fryer, an English traveller to India (c. 1673–1682), observed the brutality committed by Shivaji's administration on his subjects and contrasted it with the Bijapur Sultanate's milder taxes and more prosperous rule. “... It is a general calamity, and much to be deplored, to hear the complaints of the poor people that remain, or are rather compelled to endure the Slavery of Seva Gi (Shivaji): the desies (desais, or Shivani's revenue collectors) have land imposed upon them at double the former rates, and if they refuse to accept it on these hard conditions (if nonied men) they are carried to prison, there they are famished almost to death; racked and tortured most inhumanly till they confess where it is: They have now in limbo several Brachmins (Brahmins), whose flesh they tear with pincers heated red-hot, drub them on the Shoulders to extreme anguish, (though according to their Law it is forbidden to strike a Brachmin.) This is the accustomed Sawce all India over, the Princes doing the same by the Governors, when removed from their offices, to squeeze their ill-got estates out of them; which when they have done, it may be they may be employ'd again: And after this fashion the desies (desais) deal with the combies'; so that the great fish prey on the little, as well by land as by sea, bringing not only them, but their families into eternal bondage. However, under the King of Visiapour (i.e., the Muslim Sultan of Bijapur) the taxations were much milder, and they lived with far greater comfort...”

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Lol. Ms can't stop worrying about Shivaji even 350 years after his death.

It is so incredibly sad to see otherwise kind, peace-loving Bollywood stars to headline this kinda bizarre revisionist film that once again seems more like a BJP propaganda campaign than ‘art’.