2:28 yes it was looted by Pindari not Marathas. All temple assets were returned to temple by Marathas. I have visited there priest and Local people confirm that what Sir Abhijit Chavda is telling.
@@amorphousexistence7741 They worked as Mercenaries in Maratha army. Your propoganda based on Pindaris but you cannot see the Marathas returning the all asset to Temple which was looted and did not kill any civilian.
@@amorphousexistence7741 pindaris who accompanied the then maratha raids were majorly Muslims. They did not share the same sentiments for a matt as that of a Hindu. So it was but natural for them to raid and loot sringeri mutt. It is also noteworthy that Marathas were having several administrative compulsions at this point due to internal fueds to employ pindaris in their army. It was a two front confrontation that they faced internally and an external bigot the maniac of Mysore tipu the dog.
@@amorphousexistence7741 pindari were not considered as maratha but they were used by all reginal ruler as paid warrior not bound with any ruler. they know more about indian terrain than maratha knows indian terrain. basically they were thugs.
@@pawan7068 let Pakistan government deal with it. Why should Indians care about Pakistani citizens. Better focus on the problems that Indian citizens are facing at present
Swami Vivekananda organised the Birthday Anniversary of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in Undivided Bengal. So that says everything about Maratha's appreciation by the Greatest Saint. So don't try to cook self serving conspiracies. Iam a Bengali by the way n I Bow to the Greatness Of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj 🙏
Sri Rabindranath Tagore as well. He had rendered a self composed poem in one of the Shiva Jayanti events happened in then Bombay. In that particular poem he glorified Shivaji Maharaj so much that he meant 'When the Bengalis were asleep , the 'sun' Shivaji rised in the land of Maharashtra.' It's quite offensive to portray Gurudev Tagore as a 'blind pacifist'. He was extremely passionate towards the Sanatana Dharma and Bharatavarsh. 👍👍
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is the reason why I could think freely and every non-abrahamic religion person is able to. A few years ago I was like the person who asked the question, after reading about him, I think words fall short to praise him and his deeds and at that age. Jay Shivray!
We believe in hinduism in Karnataka , And it written fact that Shivaji plundered Sringeri (sacred lordess ) we won't forgive and we follow our Hindu dharma which won't support attacking our temples
@@yourbff1484 Don't spread lie about Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. He was religious man, devotee of lord Shiva, he will never destroy a temple. In fact he built and reconstructed many temple. He reconstructed Saptkoteshwar temple in Goa, that was demolished by portuguese. Maratha have reconstructed 7 out of 12 jyotirlinga across India. During Aurangzeb rule Jagannath temple was shutdown out of fear, they had to give money to protect temple. He was busy fighting Marathas that kept him away from Jagannath temple. It was only after Maratha took control of odisha dieties were able to celebrate Rath yatra as before, Marathas donated money for Rath yatra.
Lol .. according to Liberals foreign Invaders like mughals and Britishers are good and did development in india... But our kings and emperors are primitive , not that good and raders ....
I am a bengali and the Marathas never killed even a single bengali hindu during their attempt to free bengal odisha and other east indian territories which were under mughal rule . Thinking about such idiotic logic that Marathas killed hindus to conquer land and looted temples just hurts very much
Akash, ' bargee elo desh e' - this line is in our lullaby. But that Does not decreases the huge respect of the entire bharat to the great shivaji Maharaj . Marathhas will always be the right side of the Indian history. N we all proud of them . Chahe jitni bhi laal-hare tidde try kar le.
You are wrong bro ... Lakhs of Hindus were killed... Remember the poem Kokha gumalo para juralo Borgi alo desha Bulbuli ta dhan khya cha Khajna debo kisa
I live 20 km away from where Ch.Shivaji Maharaj Bhosale born, feeling proud to being a Maharashtrian,and I born here in Pune. And got surname Bhosale.! 🚩
বাংলার ইতিহাসে মারাঠা বর্গিদের হানা এক নৃশংসতম অধ্যায়। নবাব আলীবর্দী খাঁ-এর আমলে ১৭৪২ খ্রিস্টাব্দ থেকে ১৭৫১ খ্রিস্টাব্দ পর্যন্ত রঘুজি ভোঁসলে ও ভাস্কর পণ্ডিতের নেতৃত্বে মারাঠা বর্গিরা বারবার বাংলার বিভিন্ন অঞ্চলে আক্রমণ চালায়। তাদের লক্ষ্য ছিল মুঘল সম্রাটের কাছে না জমা পড়া চৌথ আদায়। কিন্তু বর্ধমান, বীরভূম, মুর্শিদাবাদ, রাজশাহী, হুগলী, রাজমহল, নদীয়া, রাজমহল -ইত্যাদি অঞ্চলের শয়ে শয়ে গ্রামে তারা শুধু লুঠপাট নয়, আক্রমণ করে হত্যা করে ৪ লক্ষ বাঙালিকে। লক্ষ লক্ষ নারীকে ধর্ষণ করে! মধ্যযুগের বাংলা সাহিত্যের কবি ভারতচন্দ্র তাঁর অন্নদামঙ্গল কাব্যে, গঙ্গাধর তাঁর মহারাষ্ট্রপুরাণে লিখে গেছেন সেই ভয়াবহ দিনের কথা। আজও “খোকা ঘুমলো পাড়া জুড়লো বর্গি এলো দেশে / বুলবুলিতে ধান খেয়েছে খাজনা দেবো কীসে” -এই ঘুমপাড়ানি ছড়ায় রয়ে গেছে সেই ইতিহাস। আজকের পর্বে রইল বঙ্গে বর্গি আক্রমণের উপর একটি গল্প আর বর্গি হানার ইতিহাস।
বাংলার ইতিহাসে মারাঠা বর্গিদের হানা এক নৃশংসতম অধ্যায়। নবাব আলীবর্দী খাঁ-এর আমলে ১৭৪২ খ্রিস্টাব্দ থেকে ১৭৫১ খ্রিস্টাব্দ পর্যন্ত রঘুজি ভোঁসলে ও ভাস্কর পণ্ডিতের নেতৃত্বে মারাঠা বর্গিরা বারবার বাংলার বিভিন্ন অঞ্চলে আক্রমণ চালায়। তাদের লক্ষ্য ছিল মুঘল সম্রাটের কাছে না জমা পড়া চৌথ আদায়। কিন্তু বর্ধমান, বীরভূম, মুর্শিদাবাদ, রাজশাহী, হুগলী, রাজমহল, নদীয়া, রাজমহল -ইত্যাদি অঞ্চলের শয়ে শয়ে গ্রামে তারা শুধু লুঠপাট নয়, আক্রমণ করে হত্যা করে ৪ লক্ষ বাঙালিকে। লক্ষ লক্ষ নারীকে ধর্ষণ করে! মধ্যযুগের বাংলা সাহিত্যের কবি ভারতচন্দ্র তাঁর অন্নদামঙ্গল কাব্যে, গঙ্গাধর তাঁর মহারাষ্ট্রপুরাণে লিখে গেছেন সেই ভয়াবহ দিনের কথা। আজও “খোকা ঘুমলো পাড়া জুড়লো বর্গি এলো দেশে / বুলবুলিতে ধান খেয়েছে খাজনা দেবো কীসে” -এই ঘুমপাড়ানি ছড়ায় রয়ে গেছে সেই ইতিহাস। আজকের পর্বে রইল বঙ্গে বর্গি আক্রমণের উপর একটি গল্প আর বর্গি হানার ইতিহাস।
The non existence of Local Folklore and Oral Rendition Songs against Shivaji, describing any cruelty or attrocity pan India and especially in areas where Marathas fought decisive battles is itself a bare testimony that the Great Leader didn't misuse his Sword. If he were a tyrant there would have cropped up million odd tales describing the barabarity of Marathas. No king however powerful cannot hush down word of mouth among commoners regarding one's own stature. The total absence of such oral literature against campaigns of Shivaji or Marathas speaks for itself.
Don't agree with you..the marathi army killed thousands of Hindus in Bengal.. Read the very popular folk song..Every Bengali knows this. খোকা ঘুমালো, পাড়া জুড়ালো, বর্গি এল দেশে। বুলবুলিতে ধান খেয়েছে খাজনা দেব কিসে?
@@ichamatitales9459 Can you please explain those lines and against which Monarchial House did Maratha's waged the War while committing atrocities against commoners?
@@saandeeprondla1412 bro don't trust him Child Sleeps,neighbourhood Calms down. Britishers have come to country Birds have ate all the seeds, How would I give my tax This is what my bengali friend translated when I sent him a ss of his poem 🙂
Not only Marathas liberated Bengal, Odisha they were great patron of the looted temples which lost it's glory due to the bigoted invaders. They did renovate Jagannath puri temple made many roads that connected from many parts of Odisha to Puri. They brought back Aruna stamba from Konark to Puri. It's clearely written in Odia madala panji.
In my entire education till 12th .. i have near learn about indian kings .. all i learn was about foreign Invaders like mughuls and Britishers .... Only some sentences or a paragraph about indian kings .... Then with the help of internet i able to learn about shivaji maharaj , vikramaditya , maharana pratap , prithviraj chauhan , mauryan empire , chola empire , karakota empire , vijayanagara empire etc .....
Then you're from CBSE BOARD. Cozz I'm in Maharashtra and our state board has many stories from Harappa civilisation to Independence. Like Mauryan, Gupta Cholas, Marathas, Mughals, Dutch, British till our independence.
Yeah same, but luckily i am from assam and we have an *extra* out of the course history book called "rediscovering assam" and thats the best book i have read in my school, it has history of assam from the times fo dvapar yug krishna to the time of ahom-mughal war (we defeated those turkics 17 times) and also the war where our assamese king prithu defeated bhaktiyar khiljee, the guy who burnt nalanda, he tried to came assam but tasted dust, this unfortunately isnt in cbse books but my school ( being cbse) has made an extra book to tell us about history of assam. But although i havent learnt much about other kings in school, only in internet like maharanapratap singh, and shivaji. In school cbse books toh, we read "tipu sultan, tiger of mysore"
@Rock Wock I guess NCERT main bhi hoga ye saab I don't know haa. Then shift to Maharashtra bro cozz we've best infrastructure, business and Jobs opportunities in Mumbai, Nagpur, Thane and all more than Haryana. And we also have Education and IT hub of Maharashtra like in Pune.
@@कीमजौंगउनतुम्हारेचाचाजी If you are UPSC aspirant then you in any case are a loser and know fake history. Your credibility and also ability to understand becomes zero once you aspire for UPSC.
They didnt do it for restoring temples , even I used to think like that ,but truth is they attacked bengal sultanate for the money because it was the richest part of indian subcontinent (present day bihar, bengal , jharkhand ,odisha) They killed almost 4 lakh people ,thats why you dont see any major affection towards the Maratha empire as you move east because for the east he was no different from mughlas
@@Kidney23 they restored Puri Jagannath temple which was under Afghan commander hand where do you studied history?? They throw out every momin from the bangal region ceded to them
@@saptarshisengupta8235 There is no evidence of murder / rape in this poem. The Marathas only looted crops and wealth. This is why this poem was called.😆
@@saptarshisengupta8235 No reference to Marathas in your poem. Bargi refers to turk cavalry...often employed by mughals. And those folk tales are maybe older than Marathas and belong to time when Turks and mughals raided bengal. That is communist propaganda... They don't lie, they present the fact in such a way to suit their agenda. If they straightaway lie, they will be caught by significant number of people if not be all....but they are best players of this game...they distort it in such a way that it looks true and suits their agenda at the same time. The reason why So right wing media person like sudhir chaudhary is called pseudo journalist while ravish kumar is hailed as true journalist is because ravish carefully distorts it while right wind media tries to take head on.... both of them are equally liars...they are are running their agendas. I agree with you that peshwas after Baji Rao were not good and did not always follow ethical and moral principles. That was result of rotten India society...which had few great men left.... that was one of the reasons of defeat of marathas at panipat...but again just after 10 years...maratha leadership was back at its moral and ethical values...although not as good as Baji Rao or Shivaji but it was better than most of their contemporaries. and yes Peshwa nana saheb can rot in hell he was not good
@@parallax1234 they were marathas of 19 th century,and we are talking about shivaji maharaj here,and if u look at the history,bengal was under mughal that time,so this loot and plundering was on a "enemies land"... But,this attitude u are having towards pan india anti invader struggle is pathetic... So,eventually u will end up glorifying invaders of india... Let me tell u 1 thing,due to my father's job and my education,I have lived through 5 states,and what i found most toxic among people is this "state pride",and this is the exact reason why invaders entered india so easily,people are just repeating the mistakes their ancestors did,take pride on being "indian",take pride on being "hindu",and don't take pride,but more beautiful thing,ie,"love" for the state and language...believe me,this pride of a singular identity is a slow poison,and no one will stand up for ur cause...swami vivekanand and king netaji had pride on being indian,learn from them...not these 2 rupees politicians...
@@parallax1234 many bengali kings like protap aditya joined maratha army and looted the mughal's economic centres,ie,places like murshidabad...the villages looted were too muslim dominated... Yeah,I have self respect for my state,thats why i support maratha army...the source of ur info?some politically inclined politicians or some distorian of laal salaam (communist),like the distorian who mentioned the lines in the article from which u copy pasted that folksong... I repeat,dont repeat this attitude,u have known some polarised history from some distorian and deglorifying the heroes of our land... Dont become jaichand of our land(by innocently following these people),man,be chandra baan...
I am a Bengali and I respect Shivaji Maharaj and Marathas....but it can't be denied that Marathas attacked Bengal 4 to 5 times from 1741 to 1751.... and May be they did not kill a single person but they actually destroyed a lot of crops and threatened the Bengalis into starvation... According to R.C. Majumder, " The Bargis( Maratha) destroyed a crops of 10.1 lack in the financial year of 1747 to 1748"
It was PEshwas. After Shivaji. Read how Peshwas (Marathi Brahmins ) took over the power and the empire gradually after Shivaji's death. Shivaji was great. Peshwas were tyrannical.
বাংলার ইতিহাসে মারাঠা বর্গিদের হানা এক নৃশংসতম অধ্যায়। নবাব আলীবর্দী খাঁ-এর আমলে ১৭৪২ খ্রিস্টাব্দ থেকে ১৭৫১ খ্রিস্টাব্দ পর্যন্ত রঘুজি ভোঁসলে ও ভাস্কর পণ্ডিতের নেতৃত্বে মারাঠা বর্গিরা বারবার বাংলার বিভিন্ন অঞ্চলে আক্রমণ চালায়। তাদের লক্ষ্য ছিল মুঘল সম্রাটের কাছে না জমা পড়া চৌথ আদায়। কিন্তু বর্ধমান, বীরভূম, মুর্শিদাবাদ, রাজশাহী, হুগলী, রাজমহল, নদীয়া, রাজমহল -ইত্যাদি অঞ্চলের শয়ে শয়ে গ্রামে তারা শুধু লুঠপাট নয়, আক্রমণ করে হত্যা করে ৪ লক্ষ বাঙালিকে। লক্ষ লক্ষ নারীকে ধর্ষণ করে! মধ্যযুগের বাংলা সাহিত্যের কবি ভারতচন্দ্র তাঁর অন্নদামঙ্গল কাব্যে, গঙ্গাধর তাঁর মহারাষ্ট্রপুরাণে লিখে গেছেন সেই ভয়াবহ দিনের কথা। আজও “খোকা ঘুমলো পাড়া জুড়লো বর্গি এলো দেশে / বুলবুলিতে ধান খেয়েছে খাজনা দেবো কীসে” -এই ঘুমপাড়ানি ছড়ায় রয়ে গেছে সেই ইতিহাস। আজকের পর্বে রইল বঙ্গে বর্গি আক্রমণের উপর একটি গল্প আর বর্গি হানার ইতিহাস।
Shivaji Maharaj looted Surat about two times and it is justified :- 1) 1664 - Shahistakhan plundered territory of Maratha empire for 3 years thats why to improve finances he planned to loot Surat like those who plundered have to pay for it. 2) 1670 - Purandar treaty with mirzaraja jaysingh damaged financial condition of Maratha empire so to improve it again and to take a revange of Agra humiliation Surat was looted again for 2nd time.
As a bengali i would like to say that there are many folk lores and lulabays where marathas are described as looters they were called borgis and FYI these folk tales and lulabys are older than 20th century for example consider this lulaby "khoka ghumalo para joralao borgi elo deshe bulbul e te dhaan kheyche khaajna debo kishe" meaning khoka sleeps the colony overjoys "borgi" (marathas) came to my land, birds ate awya my crops how do i pay the tax? DISCLAIMER - I have deep respect and regards for the Great Shivaji but afterhis demise is it possible that his army lost the values that were encorpoarted and practiced by him???
@@shubhankardasgupta4777 Mir Jafar is arab not Bengali. I am Bengali. Mir Jafar is you! Marathis killed 4 million west Bengali Hindus. Alivardi khan defeated them and pushed them back
In 1741, the cavalry of Raghoji Bhosle, the Maratha ruler of Nagpur, started to pillage western Bengal under the command of Bhaskar Pandit and when i say pillage i mean pillage ( if you have a confusion regarding the meaning of the word i suggest you to look it up in a dictionary).
only because of marthas how ? did marthas fight in 8th century 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th century how can you forget who actully save hindus from 8th-14th cenuty marthas came in 17th century fight 100 years only and then gone
@@vhy9807 Turki Invasions were majorly on Sindh Region.... Gujarat was just beside it.... Sindh was attacked... Conquered and Converted numerous times But Gujarats Proximity to Maharashtra was a plus point that turned out to be in it's favour... Marathas Continuously Attacked Mughal Territory of Gujarat and Surat Vaniyas/Jains even provided their wealth to Marathas to fight for Dharma... (Jains Buddhists Hindus) Gujarat Supported Marathas... And thus it remained majorly Hindu (I agree many converted too in the reign of Mughals and other Turks but many resisted for centuries.... Just like sindhis who migrated India for Maintaining religious identity)
Shivaji respected women which proves he was a great human being. When his soldiers brought a beautiful woman to him as loot, he said he wished his mother was beautiful like her so he too would have become handsome.
When Marathas invaded Bengal, it was a Mughal colony with some exceptions like Nabadweep and Vishnupur. It was called Bengal Subah since most of Bengal was under Mughal colonialism. Mughal rule in Bengal ended in 1757 by British colonialists.
In 1741, the cavalry of Raghoji Bhosle, the Maratha ruler of Nagpur, started to pillage western Bengal under the command of Bhaskar Pandit and when i say pillage i mean pillage ( if you have a confusion regarding the meaning of the word i suggest you to look it up in a dictionary).
@@rajdeepghosh5942 hey bud since u seem like such a nice history buff can you please enlighten us all here on why the Marathas came here in the first place ? As far as I remember is that Alivardi Khan k*lled his uncle Rustom Khan to usurp the throne. So Rustom's son wanted revenge so there was a civil war amongst Muslims in Bengal. Alivardi Khan literally invited the Marathas to pillage Bengal. He literally wrote a letter to the Marathas wanting help against his relative.
In West Bengal, till today (due to 34 years of leftist rule), Marathas are called "Borgi" (invaders). Maratha army attacked only peaceful villages and vassal states in Bengal. Hindu villages, to differentiate themselves from the peaceful, installed Shiv Lingas, are found to this day. Maratha Army never attacked any Hindu community in Bengal. . . . How do I know this? My forefathers were from Natore, modern-day Bangladesh. They were the RAJPUROHITs of the Nator rajbari (Priest of the main temple of Natore).
The atrocities and violence committed on hapless Hindus by the turks/mughals are remembered even today and the pain has become a part of our DNA and we will never forget. But there is no such memory in respect of Chatrapathi Maharaj and Marthas. It is the deliberate attempt of Hinduphobic Marxist historians to distort history to show Maharaj in poor light.
@@basedandchadpilled1148 Hey Stop Following Marxist and Communist Distorians history ok! Chhatrapati Shivaji was always a Great Hindu King... Seems like you read History from NCERT... Which is full of lies and Distortions!
I have seen these type of question so many times and whenever i see this it makes me laugh , they say Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ji as a looter .The one who started Swarajya movement and tried to free India from Foreign invasion and regained the territories and 'treasuries which was looted by Mughals' . And these people call Maratha Empire (an Indian empire) as 'Looters' or 'invaders' and same people call Mughal as great by totally ignoring the fact that they were the real invaders who killed millions of people and looted India for 500+ years and destroyed so many ancient heritages 🤦♂️
distorted history. Five raids carried out against Bihar Bengal and Orissa. Also the famous battle of Tirichinopalli against Carnatic state buy Raghoji Bhosle.
The bargi attacks on Bengal came up much later than the time of Shivaji. So I don't see Shivaji called a looter in Bengal. The Bargi attacks were carried during the time of Alivardi Khan, grandfather of Siraj ud daulah, the last nawab of Bengal who lost the battle of Plassey to the British. Shivaji was contemporary of Aurangzeb's time. Whereas his successors carried out bargi attacks some decades before the British East India company started its reign of Bengal. So there's a clear difference in time lines.
I am sorry but this is wrong. Maratha used to raid villages and burn farms. There is a poem in bengali “Khoka ghumalo, para jurolo borgi elo deshe”. It is a popular folklore in Bengal, the folklore was there since ages before even communist idea was formed. Avijit you probably are not aware on this topic. Also there is a canal in kolkata which was constructed to stop Borgi invasion to bengal.
@@dhruvpawar9385 bengal was captured by muslim rulers but bengali farmers whom the maratha’s soldiers looted were not muslims. They were a mix of both hindus and muslims. What crap logic is this? By this logic if a country is ruled by a muslim king just kill n rob the civilians of the country.
@@dhruvpawar9385 oh and one more thing I forget you asked me to read history but history is written by the britishers and communist and gandhis. It is so weird the I did some research on Bengali history or gaudiya history, and I found there were hindu kings from bengal who defeated mughals n delhi sultanate rulers time after time 17 times but there is no mention of then in our history books. The history of maharana pratap, shivaji is there but no mention of maharaja pratapaditya who defeated akbar 5 times. No mention of maharaja laksman sen or deva dynasty who defeated the delhi sultanate 17 times in battle of mangalkot.
As a Bengali, I always have a great Respect For Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in My Heart. Shivaji Maharaj was one of the greatest kings of Indian history if not The greatest. ❤ Jai Hind🧡🤍💚
Brother, the fallacy this video draws upon is that He is equating Bargis with Shivaji Maharaj. No qualm against him. He had been a great king of his era. But it was the Peshwas who took over the power after Shivaji's death, they were the scoundrel who orchestrated these attacks on Bengal's villages. and also other provinces. As a Bengali u must have heard about the poem 'Bargi elo deshe', right? its them. Peswa's raiders. Nothing to do with Shivaji Maharaj. This video maker is just playing with the love we all have for Shivaji Maharaj. Dont fall into the trap. Shivaji and Peshwas - Major difference... Read about Shivaji, brother. How the Marathi brahmins didn't agree to appoint him as a king because he was apparently from a lower caste. Shivaji was a reformer. A rebel and a just king. Unlike Peswas. No wonder the Mahar's fought bravely against them and defeated them later on.
i would still choose a hindu ruler over my state even it was achieved by defeating the ruler here then a Islamic colonizer that would wipe the history of our native hindu identity and replace it with a foregin saudi faith.
You will find such false, unfounded and malafide propaganda by the "psuedo historians" of Independent Bharat. Good to hear your clarifications on Marathas,,Mr Abhijit ji. As a student of History, I am finding so many anomalies in the history taught to us.
Rajputs have written barbaric acts of marathas in their records. There are many incidents of wrong-doing by marathas. We should learn from their mistakes.
@@saptarshisengupta8235 Bangla was not your State. This was Mughal Nawab's territory. Many Bengalis like Pratap Aditya fought with the Mughals. Marathas only attacked the Mughals and looted their crops and wealth to weaken the Mughal Empire. They basically attacked Murshidabad and its surrounding Muslim-dominated villages and looted crops.//বাংলা তখন আমাদের রাজ্য ছিল না। এটি ছিল মুঘল নবাবের এলাকা। প্রতাপআদিত্যের মত অনেক বাঙ্গালী মোগলদের সাথে যুদ্ধ করেছিল। মারাঠারা কেবল মুঘলদের আক্রমণ করে ফসল ও ধন সম্পদ লুট করেছিল মুঘল সাম্রাজ্যকে দুর্বল করতে । তারা মুলত মুর্সিদাবাদ এবং তার আশপাশের মুসলিম অধ্যশিত গ্রামে হামলা করে ফসল লুট করেছিল। যার কারনে 'খোকা ঘুমলো পাড়া জুরলো' ছড়াটিতে ফসল নিয়ে চিন্তা প্রকাশ করা হয়েছে। তাছাড়া মারাঠাদের আক্রমণকে নিচু করতে মাওবাদী ইতিহাসকারেরা এর মধ্যে কিছু কল্পকাহিনী জুড়েছিল,যদিও এদের লেখা এসব বিকৃত ইসতিহাসের কোন প্রমান পাওয়া যায় না।✍️🦚
@@hvtf.9286 Pratapaditya fought against mughals. mughals were allied with rajputs who provided them critical support. Early marathas fought against mughals. later marathas under the opportunistic interloper peshwas wanted to take over the mughal system for their own benefit using hindu mantle as an excuse, similar to how congress inherited british system and feigned hindu concerns, while the real independence was fought by INA or it was simply the mobilization by INA. Invariably, seeing this game, the remnant and resurgent hindu powers in the north such as sikhs/dogras/purbias always opposed later maratha intrusions. Northern Hindus would fight nominally under some nawabi banner. Same was done in 1857 when hindus fought in name of the mughal emperor. it was just a formality and signified very little in the turbulent 18th century. The real heroes usually go unsung.
@@amorphousexistence7741 same goes for Rajputs. Jaisingh on the order of Aurangzeb invaded Maharashtra. Unfortunately Maratha accounts were burnt when Raigad was captured!
My guy, Maratha killed 400k bramhans. I respect Shivaji but his people weren't good. In Bengal we know Marathas as "Borgi" there is famous poetry about Borgi/Maratha here. It says Borgi forced Bengalis to pay more tax. People starved and they experienced a great femine. More than 10m Bengalis died. Yes they did killed innocent hindus and Muslim here. It's not a propaganda, more than 95% people in this territory believe Marathas looted and killed people who didn't paied taxes.
@@jijio000 During their occupation, the Bargi mercenaries of the Marathas perpetrated massacres against the local population. According to one memoir, perhaps close to 400,000 Hindu people in western Bengal and Bihar were killed. See what Wikipedia says : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratha_invasions_of_Bengal#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DDuring_their_occupation%2C_the_Bargi%2CBengal_and_Bihar_were_killed.?wprov=sfla1
@@zinformative these numbers were claimed by the dutch even the Wikipedia says it , it is not even possible to kill 400000 people at that time , that's just an exaggeration by the outsiders for spreading hate between hindus , the maratha Empire was established for the people 'Swarajya'. Don't blindly believe on what you read, think practically . The nawab ruled the hindus of bengal so of course hindus of bengal were also made to fight the Marathas and we are talking about war, massacre was going to happen at all cost.
Sir please elaborate the greatest memorable moment when Marathas reached till attock and flourished the saffron flag 🚩 Maratha empire from attock to kuttack and from thanjavur to peshavar in which after the barbaric rule of Mughals the 1 hindu empire who've crossed Punjab and 1 time face afghanistan border .....
Sir, you won my heart. I salute to your knowledge. I don't know if you are blessed by Maa Saraswati to possess so much knowledge about sooo many subjects Sir.
One of the most brutal chapters in Bengal's history is the Maratha Bargi raids. During the reign of Nawab Alivardi Khan, from 1742 to 1751, under the leadership of Raghuji Bhonsle and Bhaskar Pandit, the Maratha Bargis repeatedly attacked various regions of Bengal. Their goal was to collect Chauth*, a tax that hadn't been paid to the Mughal Emperor. In the regions of Burdwan, Birbhum, Murshidabad, Rajshahi, Hooghly, Rajmahal, Nadia, and many others, they not only looted hundreds of villages but also killed 400,000 Bengalis. Millions of women were raped! Medieval Bengali poets Bharat Chandra in his *Annadamangal poem and Gangadhar in his Maharashtra Purana have written about those horrific days. Even today, the lullaby “Khoka ghumloo para jurolo Bargi elo deshe / Bulbulite dhan kheyeche khajna debo kise” (The child sleeps, the village rests, but the Bargis have come / The birds have eaten the crops, how will we pay the taxes?) reflects that history. Today's episode will feature a story and historical account of the Bargi raids in Bengal.
Exactly rite sir .. Sringeri Matt was not looted by Shivaji... Temple wealth was taken by some other bugler troop. But in Karnataka wrongly published as maratas looted temple n Tippu gave treasure n money for jirnodaar of temple....
Shivaji did not plunder Bengal but later Marathas- The leader of the expeditions was Raghoji Bhonsle of Nagpur.[3] The Marathas invaded Bengal five times from April 1742 to March 1751,[4] which caused widespread economic losses in the Bengal Subah. Many historians estimate more than 100k civilians killed.
It was not Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. He was a great leader. It was Bhaskar Pandit, who looted Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. Those robbers were called 'Bargi'.
I wonder how ignorant people are in the comments section. I am no communist. But there are enough written records of Maratha atrocities on the common Bengali civilians. Our Houses in Bengal were redesigned completely to block maratha raids at night. There's no communist propaganda, my great grandfathers spoke of 'bargi' raids even before the rise of communism in Bengal. A staggering 4 lakhs merchants, silk weavers and artisans were killed who could not give money to the maratha convoys. It's disheartening to see how the fellow Bengalis are glorifying maratha conquests.
This is important. Because in Bengal also we have been told the same. That the Maratha army called "bargi" massacred the Bengalis. But if we read the detailed accounts we would see that the Maratha forces attacked the Nawab of Bengal. They came to conquer Bengal, not to massacre the Bengalis.
But they did massacre the Bengalis, Bengalis wrote many poems about their torturous raids. There is no way at an entire army came down to the villages without harming civilians at all. During war, civilians defend themselves as well, they try to protect their kings and empires as well. Among them were pen warriors who recorded such events through poems and literature. Sorry to disappoint you but that is how the medieval era was. Just admit it already
@ahiduzzamanahir1338 They looted many nobles and their granary. We can guess who the nobles were in the nawab era! And as far as the folk literature goes.... "bargi elo deshe... khajna debo kishe..." Marathas did not take tax from the villagers. Either they would loot as you just said... or they would extract tax from the ruler (if defeated), which in turn would be extracted from the villagers by the local ruler to compensate. And then tales of torturous raids of course do exist...but torture on whom? The nawab and his guardsmen, local chiefs and their immediate men. And very often the rich elite get the privilege of recording history which is read or refered later to write books. Just like we have a Romila Thapar. Come here in Odisha. This area was invaded by the Marathas at the same time and after the invasions, they in fact ruled parts of northern Odisha. Odia people have surnames similar to that of Marathis, celebrate Ganesh Utsav, and share many recipes of similar cuisine. And no popular mention of torturous atrocities. Because they did not read or propagate the nawabi history records of Bengal. Although their folklore and local history mention about the Marathas in various ways, mostly mentioning the guerilla war techniques as later learnt by the paikas of Odisha and restoration of various medieval age temples. History is often subjected to skewed narratives. It's tough to admit that as well....
@ahiduzzamanahir1338 And about civilians defending themselves, the same people say that the Bengalis (typically coward Hindu Bengalis) did nothing during the Palasi war, which is true. They had a deep dissaffection for the nawab for justifiable reasons. They saw the conquest of British as a relief (which was an illusion though). They never resisted the fall of the Nawab of Murshidabad!! Simply because the villages were not attacked. British raj was very much a curse but the villagers did not take interest in the war because they never cared about the Nawab being defeated. So those who say how atrocious the Marathas were and how the common Bengali fought against them, the same bunch of people say that how cowardly the Bengalis were who did nothing to save their nawab from the British, or infact sided with the British! They fought the Marathas and welcomed the British!! Civilians defend and try to protect their king if they care about the king. The majority of the Bengalis hardly cared about the Nawab of Bengal (except for a few of them who probably were employees of the Nawabi administration). So no, villagers or civilians do not fight for their king all the time. A king might be able to impose his rule on the civilians and get obedience. Buy loyalty and support during trouble needs to be "earned".
Marathas raided Bengal in Peshwa era. Actually Pindaris who were irregulars under Maratha command, plundered Bengal and massacred civilians on a mass scale. This can't be denied. However, it should be noted that Maratha regular army never committed atrocities of this magnitude.
@@Sujal9253 I don't think that Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj did anything wrong in raiding Surat. It was a city with immense wealth. Besides, a certain amount of money was demanded from (only) wealthy merchants and when this money was paid, these merchants were left alone without any harm. Those merchants who denied to pay were punished. There were instances when Adilshahi and Mughal forces raided Marathi territories and even killed innocent poor peasants and carried out rapes. Compared to that, Surat raid was a lot less brutal. There were two primary objectives of this raid: 1. Collecting funds for building Swarajya (Maratha kingdom). 2. Striking fear in the heart of emperor Aurangzeb by raiding his prized possession.
Raghoji Bhosle sent Bhaskar Pundit to collect chauth from Bengal and they targeted civilians, killed many. Later Marathas after great Chatrapati Shivaji were more interested in Chauth collection. Shivaji would never have allowed it. Shivaji Maharaj is great and will remain great in our hearts.
Oh! This explains it. Virji Vora was one of the richest merchants in Surat who lent money to British empire. In fact they say British begged money from Vora continuously - before they pocketed the entire country. So I am sure there were rich predecessors of Virji Vora at Shivaji Mhj times. Regarding Shivaji Mhj and Bengalis - I think this propaganda is much before communists - maybe the Brits started it. Reason I say is when Swami Vivekananda was an itinerant monk (before 1890s) he stays with a Bengali gentleman by name Haripada Mitra in Belgaum (in Karnataka). Haripada Mitra talks ill of Shivaji and Swami Vivekananda gives him a blistering response saying how ill informed he is about Shivaji Maharaj.
Even communist historians never said Shivaji raided Bengal. Carnatic and Bihar, orissa and Bengal were raided a hundred years after Shivaji by Maharaj Raghuji Bhosale.
Thank god I was born in land of maharashtra and got an opportunity to study about the history of Chatrapati shivaji maharaj and whole Maratha swaraj during my 4th class it self I remember our teacher always took extra hours after school period for those who wanted to know about our history and use to tell us very interesting great stories
I can't believe many of such kids and people don't know the actual truth and they are the victims of the history written by British officers and some fools . Abhijit sir u are doing good work of spreading the right history and knowledge of this land. Hats off
I am a Bengali who belongs to the Sanatanic tradition, on the behalf of Bengali culture we will accept the Predominance of any hindu kings even from a different culture or from another part of the country but from the same religion. rather than accepting any Islamic or Christian ruler.
brother abhijit chavda is biased indian he is not telling truth about marthas killed lakhs of bengali hindus rapes them it is true they did same in other state that why no one support martha during abdali times i am not talking about shivaji mahraj later rulers of martha empires are cruel or lootere how can a bengali people or bihar people forget what did marthas do to them it is just propoganda of maharastrain or rss that marthas are good but they are same as mughall
@@vhy9807 yes like you people who believe on enemies before your own people. Right now breeds like you are became the most dangerous internal security matter. Who just believe on anything which serverd by left historians. Understand the truth Marathas will never do such thing upon there own people read some right history. This is so disappointing that we have to share our land with traitors like you. But one day will come......that we bring judgement on traitors like you. One day.........
@@vhy9807 Well i guess you don't know even the meaning and difference between religious and Dharm. That means you are a propa-gandaist 🤣 victim of Mamata Bano. And there is nothing wrong with being biased if it's a matter of your Dharma and culture.
@@atheistbanerjee008 toke badra ki bolbo tui badra nijye janisha ke WB puratan naam ki chilo. Sri Swami Vivekananda Maharaj Chatrapati Sivajir jonno ki kavita lekhe chilo oitao tu janisna. Tui badra hochis ar badra thakbhi.😊
Please refrain commenting over something you don't know. I'ld like to interfere into your Bengal analysis. 1. It is not a communist propaganda. In 18th Century, a Bengali poet Gangaram wrote "Maharastra Puran", where he described "Bargi" invasion much before communism came. 2. During Bengal invasion Chatrapati Shivaji wasn't in power. It was done by "Pindari"s led by Bhaskar Pandit under Raghoji Bhosle. 3. They killed civilians, especially Brahmins, destroyed temples. Tinkari Ray was one of the zaminders who fought against them. After defeating independent Hindu kingdoms, they attacked Alibardi. The attacks on Hindu kingdoms were completely unnecessary. Anyway, It was not at all Shivaji's fault. It's the mistake of Raghoji and Bhaskar Pandit. Bengali child rhyme "Khoka ghumolo, para jurolo" will remember these atrocities. Denial is the disrespect for the martyrs who died to protect temples.
@@swastikdas4251 He said wrong because of not enough info, but not for propagating any propaganda. He admitted Pindari cruelty in case of Shringeri math. He lacked data or primary evidence. I don't know why would BJP support this, cause Pindari's aren't maratha, they are a troop consisting mostly M's and a few Maratha.
Bengalis don't not remember "Alivardi khan's" prowess How he defeated the Marathas in "The Battle of Burdwan" in 1747 and free Bengal from 9 year long maratha atrocities...... Don't confuse those evil maratha with Great Shivaji ... This happened after shivaji's death .. On the other hand people of Bengal may not remember their Hindu king "Pratapaditya" who defeated the Mughals thrice in the battlefield and Let Bengal free from Mughal atrocities..
Gangaram, a hindu poet from Bengal in his Maharashtrapuran book, clearly described the atrocities committed by Marathas in Bengal. They don't spared hindus. Loot, gangrape and all kinds of atrocities were committed by them which can only be compared with the atrocities of the armies of Genghis Khan or similar kind of cruel medieval invaders. And, by the way, I want to know how many people, who are commenting below know that out of the 11 personal bodyguards of Shivaji, 8 were Muslim. And the person, whom Shivaji trusted most was Mir Ibrahim Siddiqi. Shivaji was later defeated by the army of Jai Singh, the hindu King of Jaipur. At least, it's clear that many hindus, who were non-maratha, didn't consider Shivaji as their savior.
If the Bengalis would have sustained the Kingdom of Jessore and never fallen apart, The Marathas surely wouldn't had looted Western Bengal. Hail to Chakravartin Rayshreth PratapAditya Ray Guha
Hello Mr .. Marathas invasion of bengal is not a fabricated story......way before even the birth of communism , some riddles or you can say some short poems about maratha invasion have proliferated in the coloqueal words of bengalis ......and you can find their brutality in the writtings of the then poets also......so I think you need to do little bit more research ....but whether its under the command of Shivaji raj.... I cant say that as I dont know it....most probably it was under vaskar pandit.......
By this I recall an incident which occurred on raigarh fort, a saint was sentenced to death for raping a woman under the order of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Now you guys say me he didn't tolerate such kind of activity from highly respected person will he allow his army to perform such aristocracies
The marathas killed 4 lakh bengalis in 10 years between 1741 and 1751. We literally have a folk lullaby in bengali villages describing how the maratha raiders used to force the people to pay tax and the poem is talking about how their crops were eaten by "bulbuli birds" so how can we pay taxes. Such was the oppression of the marathas on the bengali common people
The “folk lullaby” is a fabrication by Alivardi Khan’s court poets. The fictional figure of 4 lakh is based only on the memoir of a single old Dutch factory supervisor called Jan Kasserboom.
You should not believe blindly because the fact remains that no hindu king supported adharmic marathas in war against Abdalis. Marathas were tax collectors of Mughals.
@@greatsirisback441 Seriously man jokers like you make all hindus dhimmi. Every historian wrote that. even marathas say they were left alone against abdalis. Why can't you make a small effort to read history and then argue on public platform?
Shivaji Maharaj looted Surat but there are many european people at that time who praise shivaji maharaj saying that he did not touch them. So calling him looter is not right. Secondly, shrungeri math was not given back whatever was taken because it was looted by pindharis. Like you said they were not a part of the actual maratha army. They were there to scare the enemy and break their discipline
It is strange that our own people question our own great Hindu leader like Chatrapati shivaji maharaj . But don't have guts to say anything about real looters like Mughal and Nizami's. Sad reality of india. thank you sir for fighting for reality and our own people.👍🚩
As a Bengali, from a historical standpoint, I disagree with Abhijit on this one. When we were young our grandparents used to sing a lullaby to us "Bargi Elo Deshe, Bulbulite Dhan Kheyeche Khajna debo kishe". This perfectly summed the condition of common Bengalis under Maratha invasions. Bargi here refers to the Maratha Light Cavalry which raided West Bengal under Sri Raghuji Bhonsle between 1741 and 1751. The Marathas imposed a 1.2 million rupees tribute on Alivardi Khan the Nawab of Bengal. Guess where Alivardi got this money from- Bengali farmers, whose lands had already been torched by the "Bargis". Hence the second line "Bulbulite dhan kheyeche" (Crops are gone), "Khajna debo kishe" (How will we pay tax?). Although the Marathas supposedly attacked Bengal Subah as a repurcussion of Alivardi's attacks on Hindu temples in Bhubeshwar, they committed atrocities on Bengali farmers Hindus and Muslims alike. Both Dutch and British sources from the time corroborate each other on these atrocities. I agree with Abhijit that leaders serve a limited group of people. For the later Marathas this group was Marathi Hindus, they were no saviors of Bengali or Odiya Hindus.
When Marathas won the wars it's Maratha victory. But when their forces loot and wreck havoc they become Pindaris and other mercenaries. Great logic. Doesn't it also mean that Maratha commanders did not have a lot of control on the troops in their army ?
Pindari was north indian community specially kept by HOLKAR and Scindia (around 70 years later after death of shivaji ) Pindari were looters whose job was loot areas specially raided or conquered by maratha warriors , and they used to attack on bengal nawab , awaz nawab , bangash pathans , mahadaji scindia who first sppointer pendhari justified it as " since the raid of mahmood ghajani islamic raiders are looting us now its our payback time "
Actually there is incidence in Surat chapter. There was a widow of a wealthy merchant named Parekh. Shivaji Maharaj sent soldiers to there house . They had surround the house. That widow thought these men were there to loot. But she noticed much time was spent but they did nothing. So she sent her servant to enquire. When he asked the soldiers told him that they were there to protect her as in such condition some one may try to take advantage of the situation and do anything wrong.
You are not an honest historian. Marathas did loot Bengali farmers and even in Bihar they did these atrocities . In Bengal they were called Bargis . If any Bengali Civilian didn’t cooperate with Maratha demands during looting, they were killed on the spot . Marathas used Tattu Horse for their sudden attacks in Bengal . And yes they did burn houses & crops .
I am humbled with your knowledge of world history and other subjects. I live on the principles laid down by Chatrpati Shivaji Maharaj. As you have mentioned history is looked from different prisms. We know about Maharaj but there are many lies spred about him in non maharastrians. Today i heard you and you smashed them . Very thankful to you and looing forward for one session on maratha empire and its contributions to Hindavi Swaraj. Thank you
Brother we bengalis has a folk poem about borgi(Maratha warriors)invasion.According to your theory that poem is a communist propaganda.Btw are you rightist?
@Abhijit Chavda Sir,I am from Bengal, and about the story of the raiding of maratha, I want to put out few points first of all its said they raided the present malda region of Bengal, but there has been no records in the writers of that time, here I want put out Malda or most of Bengal belonged to the Mughal, so shouldn't there have been records of it. Now the rise of this concept came from an anonymous song, but if you go by the words carefully you will understand how wrong inference have been drawn from it, the words goes like thess, "ছেলে ঘুমালো, পাড়া জুড়ালো বর্গী এল দেশে বুলবুলিতে ধান খেয়েছে খাজনা দেব কিসে।।" this is the first paragraph here look at the two words, first bargi, now I have a question, if it's referring to the maratha and being sung by a Bengali then why will they use a parsian word bargi, will not they use dakat, or lootera or if they wanted to mention the marathi so can use the marathi term darodekharo, why instead they use a parsian word, now the other word is khajna, it's was the practice of the time to pay khajan to the rulers and it was under mughal territory so mughal will be paid the khajan....and the later words if you go by you will understand it more clearly, there is a sentence which says we are cultivating garlic and will pay the task with that, but one should remember Marathi's generally don't consume garlic, while the Mughals were massive consumer of it. So the song clearly wants to mention the Mughals but it's been interpreted with a wrong meaning to let a fight among the Hindus themselves and they get the benefits. Last point Gophal Bhar was a contemporary book written during that period but it has no mention of the raids of marathas but ample mention of the atrocities of the Mughals...
This is my question also. Bargi and Khajna both are persian words and official languages of mughal and turks. We're so dumb, our ancestors told us something else but aren't we believe something else?
Shivaji was defeated by belwadi mallama and she spared his life.. And also maratha forces attacked mysore kingdom and was badly defeated by chikka devraja odeyar.. Whole Maharashtra was once ruled by kannada kingdom, rastrakuta built ajanta ellora.. Tell some truth also..
@adibhau7178 😂😂 ever heard of rashtrakutas?? Ofcourse you don't know the origin of name Maharashtra..who built ajanta ellora caves?? Idly was invented by Tamils and rava idli was invented by MTR which is bengaluru.. Uneducated is not problem for this country only ill educated people like you are problem who don't accept facts even though its true
Yes bargi attack is real Even there is a poem in Bengali "Khoka ghumalo para juralo ,Bargi elo desh e, bulbuli te dhan khayeche khajna debo kis e" That means "kids go for sleep, bargi attackers came and loot everything,rises already gone due to birds,how we will pay taxes" Shivaji may be a good person,did a lot for hindus But bargi maratha attackers showed a next level of cruelty and destroyed many innocent lives. And that's not a communist propaganda Before 100 yrs of coming of communist theese poem are written, If u go to murshidabad u will find lots of prove of maratha invasion I don't know about Surat,.. And these are not myths,I can assure u ( Sorry for bad English)
Thank you for this clarification Abhijit sir. Few days back thee was a Russian man telling me the same thing as to how cruel the Marathas were! At that time I did not know the facts well but I did tell him that this seems like propaganda against Shivaji Maharaj and I would not believe it till I do my own research about this. So thank you again.
Superb and perfect answer..and explanation.. 🙏 Sir.. I feel from deep in my heart.. Not only this video but after watching most of your videos.. I strongly feel you must have position in education ministry something like Advisory and Development.. Salute to your knowledge and strong believes about our True History 🙏
But some Marathas did loot commoners in Bengal they were called 'bargi' in Bengali....and it is present even in an old Bengali lullaby song. It's called 'bargi elo deshe' (bargi has came to our land). What I would like to believe is they were some deserted factions of army not belonging to Shivaji .
@Awesome Gaming Im talking about Maratha's genocide and loot of bengal nearly 5 or 6 times Nawabs collapse is a different story who were already by then became incompetent and unworthy to rule
Actually marathas were unethical fighters. They were first Indian rulers who killed common people. Rajputs never did that. They have done that in Rajasthan, Bengal, Karnataka etc. It started happening during peshwa times. Shivaji was still ethical.
@@sahilsagwekar All atrocities were committed by later marathas who collected taxes on behalf of mughals. In fact marathas were mercenaries of mughals.
Bargi is crude form of Persian word Bargir. Which means "one who bears the burden". Turk soldiers who brought their own horse from own money, to join the Mughal Army were called Bargir. The Bargir Regiment of Mughal Cavalry was the most sadistic, savage, inhuman looters ever seen on Indian soil. How did you believe that Marathas would go up north into Persia (after Persia was already turned into an Islamic state) and bring back a word to use as the name for Maratha Cavalry ? Communist educators are lunatics...but do you have to believe them? Seriously?
Jayatu Shivaji (जयतु शिवाजी) poem written by a Bengali Poet praising Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. And the name of that great Bengali poet is Ravindranath Tagore I think that explains everything.
the Sringeri math was not looted by Marathas it was looted by Pindaaris, they were mercenaries and used to fight as belligerents for Maratha Empire, and yes they were later punished by Maratha Commanders on the orders of Peshwa himself.
What about Marathas who raided Rajputs and one of them had to commit suicide due to invasion and constant harassment from the Holkers. : Ishwari Singh of Marwar.
Listen 👂 carefully sir, the marathas did looted Bengal and kill "civilians" not soldiers that's why we call them "বর্গী" (means bandit race). Next the Bengalis like the Brits because of the cruelty of the marathas in Bengal was increasing and Saha Jahan can't stop it And remember one thing they killed "civilians" and "raped" our sisters and mothers And you can't change the fact because this is history And after watching this video, where you justify the cruelty of the marathas by saying that those were "soldiers". I remember one thing that was said in movie PK, and that was "farzi baba". And you are ont different because you know that peoples were convinced if you told them in English.
Maratha or "Bargi" invasion was so brutal and inhuman that in Maharastra Purana the author Gangaram wrote, "Durga ordered her followers to be gracious to the Muslim Nawab and oppose the Marathas because the evil-minded ones had killed Brahmans and Vaisnavas." According to P. J. Marshall Bengal: The British Bridgehead "Marathas killed about 400,000 Bengalis during raids just for money." Our grandmother used to sing us a lullaby about farmers who couldn't pay taxes to landlords due to the Bargi invasion - "ছেলে ঘুমালো পাড়া জুড়ালো, 'বর্গি' এলো দেশে, বুলবুলিতে ধান খেয়েছে, খাজনা দিবো কীসে?" Before Martha and British according to Abhay Kumar Singh in his book "Modern World System and Indian Proto-industrialization: Bengal 1650-1800" Bengal Nawabs and Subedars were able to establish a proto-industrialized state which became the richest nation on earth at that time and people used to live the highest lavish lifestyle. It was used to be called the "Paradise of Nations". During the period of Nawab Shaista Khan, people could buy 320 kg of rice at 1 Taka only (can you imagine!). If Maratha wouldn't invade Bengal, East and West Bengal might still be in one piece, probably entire India would be in one piece. We would have defeated the British in the long run and could become a world superpower along with US and Russia. So before making a judgment out of emotion, "READ" and learn your history.
@@sks8768 Don't make stories out of emotions. Study, find proof with valid and reliable reference. There was no enimity between Hindu and Muslim in largly social scale until the British rule. And what do you mean by when Abdali attacked "Bharat". Abdali was a hindustani, he was born here, raised here and died here. Just because someone believe in a different religion does not make someone outsider.
@@sks8768 Ya right, I need to read some real (!) books written by fanatics right? And I think you would be delighted to know that there was significant numbers of Muslim soldires and commanders worked under Shibaji rao and there was significant numbers of Hindu soldires and commander worked under Mughals. So much for Hindu-Muslim hatred :'D.
😂😂😂😂😂 Mir jafar commander of bengal and many his commanders took side of east India Company..... Since they want to rule bengal. Bribed by company And britishers has defeated and killed siraj ud dullah...... Nawab of bengal Battle of plassey. Bengal come under Britain.
2:28 yes it was looted by Pindari not Marathas. All temple assets were returned to temple by Marathas. I have visited there priest and Local people confirm that what Sir Abhijit Chavda is telling.
What were pindaris doing in Maratha Army?
@@amorphousexistence7741 They worked as Mercenaries in Maratha army. Your propoganda based on Pindaris but you cannot see the Marathas returning the all asset to Temple which was looted and did not kill any civilian.
Even i could confirm this
Im from karnataka
@@amorphousexistence7741 pindaris who accompanied the then maratha raids were majorly Muslims. They did not share the same sentiments for a matt as that of a Hindu. So it was but natural for them to raid and loot sringeri mutt. It is also noteworthy that Marathas were having several administrative compulsions at this point due to internal fueds to employ pindaris in their army. It was a two front confrontation that they faced internally and an external bigot the maniac of Mysore tipu the dog.
@@amorphousexistence7741 pindari were not considered as maratha but they were used by all reginal ruler as paid warrior not bound with any ruler. they know more about indian terrain than maratha knows indian terrain. basically they were thugs.
shivaji maharaj was one of the greatest kings of indian history , thats why he is still being remembered .
Sorry
You're wrong here
I would like to correct you here
Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is one of the greatest EMPERORS of all time and not a king
@@onkarvaidya1733 Yes
🚩जय भवानी जय शिवाजी हर हर महादेव 🚩
He is god for us Maharashtrians 😌😌😌🚩🚩🚩
@@pandeykrishscss3820 he was nothing infront of his Grandfather Chandragupt Maurya
काशी की कला जाती, मथुरा मस्जिद होती | सिवाजी न होते तो , सुन्नत होती सबकी ||
- कवी भूषण (17th century poet native of वाराणसी)
🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻
Kuch bhi
@@rohitsherkhane42 ask pakistani hindus
@@pawan7068 let Pakistan government deal with it. Why should Indians care about Pakistani citizens. Better focus on the problems that Indian citizens are facing at present
@@rohitsherkhane42 Ignoring neighbours won't keep you safe for long
@@pawan7068 hahahaha 🤣😂🤣😂 selective safeguarding of neighbours huh
Swami Vivekananda organised the Birthday Anniversary of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in Undivided Bengal. So that says everything about Maratha's appreciation by the Greatest Saint. So don't try to cook self serving conspiracies. Iam a Bengali by the way n I Bow to the Greatness Of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj 🙏
Bengalis like U are the true heirs of Netaji Bose , Sri Aurobindo & Swami Vivekanand 🙏🏻👍
Agreed Deb 🤗
Sri Rabindranath Tagore as well. He had rendered a self composed poem in one of the Shiva Jayanti events happened in then Bombay. In that particular poem he glorified Shivaji Maharaj so much that he meant 'When the Bengalis were asleep , the 'sun' Shivaji rised in the land of Maharashtra.' It's quite offensive to portray Gurudev Tagore as a 'blind pacifist'. He was extremely passionate towards the Sanatana Dharma and Bharatavarsh. 👍👍
Mee too a bengali I bow down to Shivaji Maharaj for him only Hinduism is still alive. He was the Chatrapati of Whole nation not only for marathas.
There are some leftist and communist bengali who shamed shivaji maharaj
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is the reason why I could think freely and every non-abrahamic religion person is able to. A few years ago I was like the person who asked the question, after reading about him, I think words fall short to praise him and his deeds and at that age. Jay Shivray!
Indeed brother
@@shaktiman-indianhero9577 rajput and marathas both are hindus stopped this stupidity
Jai bhavani
Jai shivaji
We believe in hinduism in Karnataka ,
And it written fact that Shivaji plundered Sringeri (sacred lordess ) we won't forgive and we follow our Hindu dharma which won't support attacking our temples
@@yourbff1484 Don't spread lie about Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
He was religious man, devotee of lord Shiva, he will never destroy a temple.
In fact he built and reconstructed many temple.
He reconstructed Saptkoteshwar temple in Goa, that was demolished by portuguese.
Maratha have reconstructed 7 out of 12 jyotirlinga across India.
During Aurangzeb rule Jagannath temple was shutdown out of fear, they had to give money to protect temple.
He was busy fighting Marathas that kept him away from Jagannath temple.
It was only after Maratha took control of odisha dieties were able to celebrate Rath yatra as before, Marathas donated money for Rath yatra.
I can't believe that person is parroting Audrey Trusky propaganda.
His is Muslim and undergoing identity crisis..
@@WiseDecisions Victim and minority card will be delivered within 72 business days. Sorry we are experiencing heavy traffic.
@@holyturtle1132 international debates are just shit. Abhijit sir will crush them with facts in no timw
@@nawsherahmedsikder2137 mughal never believed India as there homeland and no Muslim is descended of mughal stop defending mughal
@@nawsherahmedsikder2137 it's true bro mughal were invaders
Lol .. according to Liberals foreign Invaders like mughals and Britishers are good and did development in india... But our kings and emperors are primitive , not that good and raders ....
Sorry sir, the self proclaimed Indian liberals aren't even Liberal.
@KRISHNA : The father of both Jesus and Allah use "pseudo Liberal" for them
@@Zeunknown1234 yup ... I agree ...
They are a threat to our civillisation
Ha ha yes
I am a bengali and the Marathas never killed even a single bengali hindu during their attempt to free bengal odisha and other east indian territories which were under mughal rule .
Thinking about such idiotic logic that Marathas killed hindus to conquer land and looted temples just hurts very much
Thank you brother ...being a maratha it gives me satisfaction that at least somebody is saying the truth..
Bengalis like U are the true heirs of Netaji Bose , Sri Aurobindo & Swami Vivekanand 🙏🏻👍
Akash, ' bargee elo desh e' - this line is in our lullaby. But that Does not decreases the huge respect of the entire bharat to the great shivaji Maharaj . Marathhas will always be the right side of the Indian history. N we all proud of them . Chahe jitni bhi laal-hare tidde try kar le.
You are wrong bro ... Lakhs of Hindus were killed...
Remember the poem
Kokha gumalo para juralo
Borgi alo desha
Bulbuli ta dhan khya cha
Khajna debo kisa
খোকা ঘুমালো, পাড়া জুড়ালো, বর্গি এল দেশে।
বুলবুলিতে ধান খেয়েছে খাজনা দেব কিসে?
I live 20 km away from where Ch.Shivaji Maharaj Bhosale born, feeling proud to being a Maharashtrian,and I born here in Pune. And got surname Bhosale.! 🚩
@wanna be lol
@wanna be nahi ajun bhava
Sacred blood🙏🏻
বাংলার ইতিহাসে মারাঠা বর্গিদের হানা এক নৃশংসতম অধ্যায়। নবাব আলীবর্দী খাঁ-এর আমলে ১৭৪২ খ্রিস্টাব্দ থেকে ১৭৫১ খ্রিস্টাব্দ পর্যন্ত রঘুজি ভোঁসলে ও ভাস্কর পণ্ডিতের নেতৃত্বে মারাঠা বর্গিরা বারবার বাংলার বিভিন্ন অঞ্চলে আক্রমণ চালায়। তাদের লক্ষ্য ছিল মুঘল সম্রাটের কাছে না জমা পড়া চৌথ আদায়। কিন্তু বর্ধমান, বীরভূম, মুর্শিদাবাদ, রাজশাহী, হুগলী, রাজমহল, নদীয়া, রাজমহল -ইত্যাদি অঞ্চলের শয়ে শয়ে গ্রামে তারা শুধু লুঠপাট নয়, আক্রমণ করে হত্যা করে ৪ লক্ষ বাঙালিকে। লক্ষ লক্ষ নারীকে ধর্ষণ করে! মধ্যযুগের বাংলা সাহিত্যের কবি ভারতচন্দ্র তাঁর অন্নদামঙ্গল কাব্যে, গঙ্গাধর তাঁর মহারাষ্ট্রপুরাণে লিখে গেছেন সেই ভয়াবহ দিনের কথা। আজও “খোকা ঘুমলো পাড়া জুড়লো বর্গি এলো দেশে / বুলবুলিতে ধান খেয়েছে খাজনা দেবো কীসে” -এই ঘুমপাড়ানি ছড়ায় রয়ে গেছে সেই ইতিহাস। আজকের পর্বে রইল বঙ্গে বর্গি আক্রমণের উপর একটি গল্প আর বর্গি হানার ইতিহাস।
Pindaris did that looting in Sringreri math. There were tribals who initially fought as mercenaries under mughals and then under Marathas
@@nabilsayyed1059 चूप रे काय पण नको बोलू वेड्या
Doesnt absolve marathas of their sins. Why they had irregulars who were rapists too.
@@nabilsayyed1059 Pindaris were all mullas like you.
@@nabilsayyed1059 there is no link between Pindari and Bhandari. Do some research before making such baseless allegations.
@@amorphousexistence7741 communist propaganda spotted.
Hoogly in WB have majority 🕉 bcoz mighty Maratha depopulated that area from Jalidar topiwala. Maratha saved Bharat from adharmic cult.
Hooghly is once called musalman-maara or something like that.
বাংলার ইতিহাসে মারাঠা বর্গিদের হানা এক নৃশংসতম অধ্যায়। নবাব আলীবর্দী খাঁ-এর আমলে ১৭৪২ খ্রিস্টাব্দ থেকে ১৭৫১ খ্রিস্টাব্দ পর্যন্ত রঘুজি ভোঁসলে ও ভাস্কর পণ্ডিতের নেতৃত্বে মারাঠা বর্গিরা বারবার বাংলার বিভিন্ন অঞ্চলে আক্রমণ চালায়। তাদের লক্ষ্য ছিল মুঘল সম্রাটের কাছে না জমা পড়া চৌথ আদায়। কিন্তু বর্ধমান, বীরভূম, মুর্শিদাবাদ, রাজশাহী, হুগলী, রাজমহল, নদীয়া, রাজমহল -ইত্যাদি অঞ্চলের শয়ে শয়ে গ্রামে তারা শুধু লুঠপাট নয়, আক্রমণ করে হত্যা করে ৪ লক্ষ বাঙালিকে। লক্ষ লক্ষ নারীকে ধর্ষণ করে! মধ্যযুগের বাংলা সাহিত্যের কবি ভারতচন্দ্র তাঁর অন্নদামঙ্গল কাব্যে, গঙ্গাধর তাঁর মহারাষ্ট্রপুরাণে লিখে গেছেন সেই ভয়াবহ দিনের কথা। আজও “খোকা ঘুমলো পাড়া জুড়লো বর্গি এলো দেশে / বুলবুলিতে ধান খেয়েছে খাজনা দেবো কীসে” -এই ঘুমপাড়ানি ছড়ায় রয়ে গেছে সেই ইতিহাস। আজকের পর্বে রইল বঙ্গে বর্গি আক্রমণের উপর একটি গল্প আর বর্গি হানার ইতিহাস।
The non existence of Local Folklore and Oral Rendition Songs against Shivaji, describing any cruelty or attrocity pan India and especially in areas where Marathas fought decisive battles is itself a bare testimony that the Great Leader didn't misuse his Sword. If he were a tyrant there would have cropped up million odd tales describing the barabarity of Marathas. No king however powerful cannot hush down word of mouth among commoners regarding one's own stature. The total absence of such oral literature against campaigns of Shivaji or Marathas speaks for itself.
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Don't agree with you..the marathi army killed thousands of Hindus in Bengal.. Read the very popular folk song..Every Bengali knows this.
খোকা ঘুমালো, পাড়া জুড়ালো, বর্গি এল দেশে।
বুলবুলিতে ধান খেয়েছে খাজনা দেব কিসে?
@@ichamatitales9459 Can you please explain those lines and against which Monarchial House did Maratha's waged the War while committing atrocities against commoners?
Accurate
@@saandeeprondla1412 bro don't trust him
Child Sleeps,neighbourhood Calms down.
Britishers have come to country
Birds have ate all the seeds,
How would I give my tax
This is what my bengali friend translated when I sent him a ss of his poem 🙂
Not only Marathas liberated Bengal, Odisha they were great patron of the looted temples which lost it's glory due to the bigoted invaders. They did renovate Jagannath puri temple made many roads that connected from many parts of Odisha to Puri. They brought back Aruna stamba from Konark to Puri. It's clearely written in Odia madala panji.
Jai Jagannatha!
Jai ganannatha swami nayana patha gami bhavat tume
In my entire education till 12th .. i have near learn about indian kings .. all i learn was about foreign Invaders like mughuls and Britishers .... Only some sentences or a paragraph about indian kings .... Then with the help of internet i able to learn about shivaji maharaj , vikramaditya , maharana pratap , prithviraj chauhan , mauryan empire , chola empire , karakota empire , vijayanagara empire etc .....
Then you're from CBSE BOARD. Cozz I'm in Maharashtra and our state board has many stories from Harappa civilisation to Independence. Like Mauryan, Gupta Cholas, Marathas, Mughals, Dutch, British till our independence.
We had whole lesson on harrapan civilisation, Marathas and all
Yeah same, but luckily i am from assam and we have an *extra* out of the course history book called "rediscovering assam" and thats the best book i have read in my school, it has history of assam from the times fo dvapar yug krishna to the time of ahom-mughal war (we defeated those turkics 17 times) and also the war where our assamese king prithu defeated bhaktiyar khiljee, the guy who burnt nalanda, he tried to came assam but tasted dust, this unfortunately isnt in cbse books but my school ( being cbse) has made an extra book to tell us about history of assam. But although i havent learnt much about other kings in school, only in internet like maharanapratap singh, and shivaji. In school cbse books toh, we read "tipu sultan, tiger of mysore"
@Rock Wock I guess NCERT main bhi hoga ye saab I don't know haa. Then shift to Maharashtra bro cozz we've best infrastructure, business and Jobs opportunities in Mumbai, Nagpur, Thane and all more than Haryana. And we also have Education and IT hub of Maharashtra like in Pune.
@@dekamateinc.7917 Our Maharashtra board also have theory of Ahoms Dynasty from North East India.
Jai shiwaji Maharaj. He crushed the mighty Mughals. He was a great leader. We will torn the all lal chaddhi one day.
Marathas worked for mughals. I dont think you know much history
@@amorphousexistence7741Then Marathas conquered the Mughal Empire😃🥰🥰🥰💪
@@amorphousexistence7741 I know history more then you because I am an upsc aspirant and my optional is history.
@@amorphousexistence7741 please provide details.
@@कीमजौंगउनतुम्हारेचाचाजी If you are UPSC aspirant then you in any case are a loser and know fake history. Your credibility and also ability to understand becomes zero once you aspire for UPSC.
As an odia I am happy on maratha empire they liberated us from oppressive bengal sultanat and restored so many hindu temple.
They didnt do it for restoring temples , even I used to think like that ,but truth is they attacked bengal sultanate for the money because it was the richest part of indian subcontinent (present day bihar, bengal , jharkhand ,odisha)
They killed almost 4 lakh people ,thats why you dont see any major affection towards the Maratha empire as you move east because for the east he was no different from mughlas
@@Kidney23 they restored Puri Jagannath temple which was under Afghan commander hand where do you studied history?? They throw out every momin from the bangal region ceded to them
@@vineetthakur182- Marathas were thugs and looters
And that's how one debunks the believer of Marxist historians
@@saptarshisengupta8235 There is no evidence of murder / rape in this poem. The Marathas only looted crops and wealth. This is why this poem was called.😆
Marxist Historians?🤣
A person cannot be historian and marxist at once
We have a word for those animals "Distorians"
@@saptarshisengupta8235 No reference to Marathas in your poem. Bargi refers to turk cavalry...often employed by mughals. And those folk tales are maybe older than Marathas and belong to time when Turks and mughals raided bengal. That is communist propaganda... They don't lie, they present the fact in such a way to suit their agenda. If they straightaway lie, they will be caught by significant number of people if not be all....but they are best players of this game...they distort it in such a way that it looks true and suits their agenda at the same time.
The reason why So right wing media person like sudhir chaudhary is called pseudo journalist while ravish kumar is hailed as true journalist is because ravish carefully distorts it while right wind media tries to take head on.... both of them are equally liars...they are are running their agendas.
I agree with you that peshwas after Baji Rao were not good and did not always follow ethical and moral principles. That was result of rotten India society...which had few great men left.... that was one of the reasons of defeat of marathas at panipat...but again just after 10 years...maratha leadership was back at its moral and ethical values...although not as good as Baji Rao or Shivaji but it was better than most of their contemporaries.
and yes Peshwa nana saheb can rot in hell he was not good
Lol,i am a Bengali...and in bengal,maharaj is seen liberator....dunno from where these jokers come?
Do Bengali Hindus seriously love the Marathas and see them as great heroes
@@Oliver_Klozoff69 u can see its example in comment section...
@@parallax1234 they were marathas of 19 th century,and we are talking about shivaji maharaj here,and if u look at the history,bengal was under mughal that time,so this loot and plundering was on a "enemies land"...
But,this attitude u are having towards pan india anti invader struggle is pathetic...
So,eventually u will end up glorifying invaders of india...
Let me tell u 1 thing,due to my father's job and my education,I have lived through 5 states,and what i found most toxic among people is this "state pride",and this is the exact reason why invaders entered india so easily,people are just repeating the mistakes their ancestors did,take pride on being "indian",take pride on being "hindu",and don't take pride,but more beautiful thing,ie,"love" for the state and language...believe me,this pride of a singular identity is a slow poison,and no one will stand up for ur cause...swami vivekanand and king netaji had pride on being indian,learn from them...not these 2 rupees politicians...
@@parallax1234 many bengali kings like protap aditya joined maratha army and looted the mughal's economic centres,ie,places like murshidabad...the villages looted were too muslim dominated...
Yeah,I have self respect for my state,thats why i support maratha army...the source of ur info?some politically inclined politicians or some distorian of laal salaam (communist),like the distorian who mentioned the lines in the article from which u copy pasted that folksong...
I repeat,dont repeat this attitude,u have known some polarised history from some distorian and deglorifying the heroes of our land...
Dont become jaichand of our land(by innocently following these people),man,be chandra baan...
Cu©ks, just like modern day Razakars in Bangladesh who simp for Pakistan 🤦 Ah Bengalis....
I am a Bengali and I respect Shivaji Maharaj and Marathas....but it can't be denied that Marathas attacked Bengal 4 to 5 times from 1741 to 1751.... and May be they did not kill a single person but they actually destroyed a lot of crops and threatened the Bengalis into starvation... According to R.C. Majumder, " The Bargis( Maratha) destroyed a crops of 10.1 lack in the financial year of 1747 to 1748"
It was PEshwas. After Shivaji. Read how Peshwas (Marathi Brahmins ) took over the power and the empire gradually after Shivaji's death. Shivaji was great. Peshwas were tyrannical.
@@SouravDas-oc3blno
Isme ragunath bhosle bhi tha aur bhosle maratha hote h so don't tell lie and brahman pe hi sab thopna band karo
বাংলার ইতিহাসে মারাঠা বর্গিদের হানা এক নৃশংসতম অধ্যায়। নবাব আলীবর্দী খাঁ-এর আমলে ১৭৪২ খ্রিস্টাব্দ থেকে ১৭৫১ খ্রিস্টাব্দ পর্যন্ত রঘুজি ভোঁসলে ও ভাস্কর পণ্ডিতের নেতৃত্বে মারাঠা বর্গিরা বারবার বাংলার বিভিন্ন অঞ্চলে আক্রমণ চালায়। তাদের লক্ষ্য ছিল মুঘল সম্রাটের কাছে না জমা পড়া চৌথ আদায়। কিন্তু বর্ধমান, বীরভূম, মুর্শিদাবাদ, রাজশাহী, হুগলী, রাজমহল, নদীয়া, রাজমহল -ইত্যাদি অঞ্চলের শয়ে শয়ে গ্রামে তারা শুধু লুঠপাট নয়, আক্রমণ করে হত্যা করে ৪ লক্ষ বাঙালিকে। লক্ষ লক্ষ নারীকে ধর্ষণ করে! মধ্যযুগের বাংলা সাহিত্যের কবি ভারতচন্দ্র তাঁর অন্নদামঙ্গল কাব্যে, গঙ্গাধর তাঁর মহারাষ্ট্রপুরাণে লিখে গেছেন সেই ভয়াবহ দিনের কথা। আজও “খোকা ঘুমলো পাড়া জুড়লো বর্গি এলো দেশে / বুলবুলিতে ধান খেয়েছে খাজনা দেবো কীসে” -এই ঘুমপাড়ানি ছড়ায় রয়ে গেছে সেই ইতিহাস। আজকের পর্বে রইল বঙ্গে বর্গি আক্রমণের উপর একটি গল্প আর বর্গি হানার ইতিহাস।
Wasn't RC Majumdar a marxist historian, though?
Shivaji Maharaj looted Surat about two times and it is justified :-
1) 1664 - Shahistakhan plundered territory of Maratha empire for 3 years thats why to improve finances he planned to loot Surat like those who plundered have to pay for it.
2) 1670 - Purandar treaty with mirzaraja jaysingh damaged financial condition of Maratha empire so to improve it again and to take a revange of Agra humiliation Surat was looted again for 2nd time.
yes tit for tat is justice. if not tit for tat then it becomes injustice.
Jail bhavani Jay shivaji
As a bengali i would like to say that there are many folk lores and lulabays where marathas are described as looters they were called borgis and FYI these folk tales and lulabys are older than 20th century for example consider this lulaby
"khoka ghumalo
para joralao
borgi elo deshe
bulbul e te dhaan kheyche
khaajna debo kishe"
meaning khoka sleeps the colony overjoys "borgi" (marathas) came to my land, birds ate awya my crops how do i pay the tax?
DISCLAIMER - I have deep respect and regards for the Great Shivaji but afterhis demise is it possible that his army lost the values that were encorpoarted and practiced by him???
Love to Maharashtra from a Bengali ❤️
Jay Shivaji 🇮🇳 Jay Netaji🇮🇳
Bengali❤️Marathi
Fir se ek raid hoti chahiye bengal par....mull* ki sarkar lagti hai waha
Sala razakar
Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ki Jay 🚩🙏
Vande matram 🇮🇳
@@mohammedalikhan2473 chup be Mir Jafar
@@shubhankardasgupta4777 Mir Jafar is arab not Bengali. I am Bengali. Mir Jafar is you!
Marathis killed 4 million west Bengali Hindus. Alivardi khan defeated them and pushed them back
DISCLAIMER: no Pattainaik was injured during this video.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 laughed my heart out
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In 1741, the cavalry of Raghoji Bhosle, the Maratha ruler of Nagpur, started to pillage western Bengal under the command of Bhaskar Pandit and when i say pillage i mean pillage ( if you have a confusion regarding the meaning of the word i suggest you to look it up in a dictionary).
Shivaji maharaj was a legendary king. Love from uttar Pradesh 🙏🚩💛
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Ki Jai 🙏🏼🕉️🚩🧡
Jai shivaji🚩
Jai Bhawani
Gujarat managed to remain Hindu primarily due to marathas protected it from evil Islamic rulers
only because of marthas how ? did marthas fight in 8th century 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th century how can you forget who actully save hindus from 8th-14th cenuty marthas came in 17th century fight 100 years only and then gone
@@vhy9807 Turki Invasions were majorly on Sindh Region.... Gujarat was just beside it....
Sindh was attacked... Conquered and Converted numerous times
But Gujarats Proximity to Maharashtra was a plus point that turned out to be in it's favour...
Marathas Continuously Attacked Mughal Territory of Gujarat and Surat Vaniyas/Jains even provided their wealth to Marathas to fight for Dharma... (Jains Buddhists Hindus)
Gujarat Supported Marathas... And thus it remained majorly Hindu
(I agree many converted too in the reign of Mughals and other Turks but many resisted for centuries.... Just like sindhis who migrated India for Maintaining religious identity)
@divyeshpatel2463 true though
Gujarati Hindus showed fierce resistance too!!!
Bhai 14th Century mai hi ahmedshah captured
Shivaji respected women which proves he was a great human being. When his soldiers brought a beautiful woman to him as loot, he said he wished his mother was beautiful like her so he too would have become handsome.
Women respect is a part of dharmic culture
When Marathas invaded Bengal, it was a Mughal colony with some exceptions like Nabadweep and Vishnupur. It was called Bengal Subah since most of Bengal was under Mughal colonialism. Mughal rule in Bengal ended in 1757 by British colonialists.
In 1741, the cavalry of Raghoji Bhosle, the Maratha ruler of Nagpur, started to pillage western Bengal under the command of Bhaskar Pandit and when i say pillage i mean pillage ( if you have a confusion regarding the meaning of the word i suggest you to look it up in a dictionary).
@@rajdeepghosh5942 hey bud since u seem like such a nice history buff can you please enlighten us all here on why the Marathas came here in the first place ?
As far as I remember is that Alivardi Khan k*lled his uncle Rustom Khan to usurp the throne. So Rustom's son wanted revenge so there was a civil war amongst Muslims in Bengal.
Alivardi Khan literally invited the Marathas to pillage Bengal. He literally wrote a letter to the Marathas wanting help against his relative.
@@abinduttagupta2680 Good job by Marathas. They should've gone on to raid East Bengal too
@@rajdeepghosh5942 answer the other comment you communist 🐷🐷
@@amukherjee9514they couldn't, instead they got subjugated by British...
In West Bengal, till today (due to 34 years of leftist rule), Marathas are called "Borgi" (invaders).
Maratha army attacked only peaceful villages and vassal states in Bengal. Hindu villages, to differentiate themselves from the peaceful, installed Shiv Lingas, are found to this day.
Maratha Army never attacked any Hindu community in Bengal.
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How do I know this?
My forefathers were from Natore, modern-day Bangladesh. They were the RAJPUROHITs of the Nator rajbari (Priest of the main temple of Natore).
Why did the marathas attack only the peaceful villages?
@@faiyazahmed6280 Coz, the opposite happened all over India, including Bengal!
@@faiyazahmed6280 epar bangla na opar bangla?
If this is communist propaganda, how can the stories of these invasions be prominent in Bengali lullabies being sang for hundreds of years?
Yes I agree with you.
The atrocities and violence committed on hapless Hindus by the turks/mughals are remembered even today and the pain has become a part of our DNA and we will never forget. But there is no such memory in respect of Chatrapathi Maharaj and Marthas. It is the deliberate attempt of Hinduphobic Marxist historians to distort history to show Maharaj in poor light.
The oppression of marathas is also remembered in bengali villages in a folk lullaby
@@basedandchadpilled1148 Marathas Never Oppresed any People ok! Stop Spreading Fake Propaganda!
@@abdulkarimpuncherwala4063 this is a well known historical facts stop believing right wing BJP propaganda that marathas were good
@@basedandchadpilled1148 Hey Stop Following Marxist and Communist Distorians history ok! Chhatrapati Shivaji was always a Great Hindu King... Seems like you read History from NCERT... Which is full of lies and Distortions!
@@basedandchadpilled1148 I think you are the Fan of Audrey Truschke, Irfan Habib, romila Thapar...😁
I have seen these type of question so many times and whenever i see this it makes me laugh , they say Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ji as a looter .The one who started Swarajya movement and tried to free India from Foreign invasion and regained the territories and 'treasuries which was looted by Mughals' . And these people call Maratha Empire (an Indian empire) as 'Looters' or 'invaders' and same people call Mughal as great by totally ignoring the fact that they were the real invaders who killed millions of people and looted India for 500+ years and destroyed so many ancient heritages 🤦♂️
distorted history. Five raids carried out against Bihar Bengal and Orissa. Also the famous battle of Tirichinopalli against Carnatic state buy Raghoji Bhosle.
The bargi attacks on Bengal came up much later than the time of Shivaji. So I don't see Shivaji called a looter in Bengal. The Bargi attacks were carried during the time of Alivardi Khan, grandfather of Siraj ud daulah, the last nawab of Bengal who lost the battle of Plassey to the British. Shivaji was contemporary of Aurangzeb's time. Whereas his successors carried out bargi attacks some decades before the British East India company started its reign of Bengal. So there's a clear difference in time lines.
I am sorry but this is wrong. Maratha used to raid villages and burn farms. There is a poem in bengali
“Khoka ghumalo, para jurolo borgi elo deshe”.
It is a popular folklore in Bengal, the folklore was there since ages before even communist idea was formed. Avijit you probably are not aware on this topic. Also there is a canal in kolkata which was constructed to stop Borgi invasion to bengal.
Bengal was captured by muslim rulers at that time , read history where nawab of bengal used to rule
@@dhruvpawar9385 bengal was captured by muslim rulers but bengali farmers whom the maratha’s soldiers looted were not muslims. They were a mix of both hindus and muslims. What crap logic is this? By this logic if a country is ruled by a muslim king just kill n rob the civilians of the country.
@@dhruvpawar9385 oh and one more thing I forget you asked me to read history but history is written by the britishers and communist and gandhis. It is so weird the I did some research on Bengali history or gaudiya history, and I found there were hindu kings from bengal who defeated mughals n delhi sultanate rulers time after time 17 times but there is no mention of then in our history books. The history of maharana pratap, shivaji is there but no mention of maharaja pratapaditya who defeated akbar 5 times. No mention of maharaja laksman sen or deva dynasty who defeated the delhi sultanate 17 times in battle of mangalkot.
@@sapbh2278because for them akbar was really great and more important 🤣🤣
Meanwhile my grandmother singing Bargi elo deshe in my childhood, 🤡
She knows the tru
because that's the truth brainwashed dude
the borgis were not sent by shivaji it was by bhosle
Yeah bro, Bhaskar Pandit leaded the Marathas. This guys are just spreading their right wing propaganda 😂
Bro don’t believe this abhijit chabdha guy . He is full of right wing propaganda .
As a Bengali, I always have a great Respect For Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in My Heart. Shivaji Maharaj was one of the greatest kings of Indian history if not The greatest. ❤
Jai Hind🧡🤍💚
বর্গি এলো দেশে, বুলবুলিতে ধান খেয়েছে খাজনা দিব কিসে।
এই ছড়া টা কোন contextএ লেখা হয়েছে?
@@prasenjitdas1679 janina, tobe Shivaji jodi akromon kore thake tahole oii somoyer Durachari Muslim shashok der parajay korte. arr Kotodin oi Bosta pocha Bengali Mindset niye thakben dada, baire beron.
@@arijit1197Bhaskar Pandit er nam sunechen?
Brother, the fallacy this video draws upon is that He is equating Bargis with Shivaji Maharaj. No qualm against him. He had been a great king of his era. But it was the Peshwas who took over the power after Shivaji's death, they were the scoundrel who orchestrated these attacks on Bengal's villages. and also other provinces. As a Bengali u must have heard about the poem 'Bargi elo deshe', right? its them. Peswa's raiders. Nothing to do with Shivaji Maharaj. This video maker is just playing with the love we all have for Shivaji Maharaj. Dont fall into the trap.
Shivaji and Peshwas - Major difference...
Read about Shivaji, brother. How the Marathi brahmins didn't agree to appoint him as a king because he was apparently from a lower caste. Shivaji was a reformer. A rebel and a just king. Unlike Peswas. No wonder the Mahar's fought bravely against them and defeated them later on.
i would still choose a hindu ruler over my state even it was achieved by defeating the ruler here then a Islamic colonizer that would wipe the history of our native hindu identity and replace it with a foregin saudi faith.
Bengalis like U are the true heirs of Netaji Bose , Sri Aurobindo & Swami Vivekanand 🙏🏻👍
@@buddhvivekanand5651 I'm not Bengali, I'm odia from Odisha 😁 also netaji was from my city in Odisha.
@@buddhvivekanand5651 and who r u to decide who's Bengali or not?
You will find such false, unfounded and malafide propaganda by the "psuedo historians" of Independent Bharat. Good to hear your clarifications on Marathas,,Mr Abhijit ji. As a student of History, I am finding so many anomalies in the history taught to us.
Rajputs have written barbaric acts of marathas in their records. There are many incidents of wrong-doing by marathas. We should learn from their mistakes.
@@saptarshisengupta8235 Bangla was not your State. This was Mughal Nawab's territory. Many Bengalis like Pratap Aditya fought with the Mughals. Marathas only attacked the Mughals and looted their crops and wealth to weaken the Mughal Empire. They basically attacked Murshidabad and its surrounding Muslim-dominated villages and looted crops.//বাংলা তখন আমাদের রাজ্য ছিল না। এটি ছিল মুঘল নবাবের এলাকা। প্রতাপআদিত্যের মত অনেক বাঙ্গালী মোগলদের সাথে যুদ্ধ করেছিল। মারাঠারা কেবল মুঘলদের আক্রমণ করে ফসল ও ধন সম্পদ লুট করেছিল মুঘল সাম্রাজ্যকে দুর্বল করতে । তারা মুলত মুর্সিদাবাদ এবং তার আশপাশের মুসলিম অধ্যশিত গ্রামে হামলা করে ফসল লুট করেছিল। যার কারনে 'খোকা ঘুমলো পাড়া জুরলো' ছড়াটিতে ফসল নিয়ে চিন্তা প্রকাশ করা হয়েছে। তাছাড়া মারাঠাদের আক্রমণকে নিচু করতে মাওবাদী ইতিহাসকারেরা এর মধ্যে কিছু কল্পকাহিনী জুড়েছিল,যদিও এদের লেখা এসব বিকৃত ইসতিহাসের কোন প্রমান পাওয়া যায় না।✍️🦚
As a historian please change our text books. Only ur kind can preserve this civilization. 🙏🙏🙏
@@hvtf.9286 Pratapaditya fought against mughals. mughals were allied with rajputs who provided them critical support. Early marathas fought against mughals. later marathas under the opportunistic interloper peshwas wanted to take over the mughal system for their own benefit using hindu mantle as an excuse, similar to how congress inherited british system and feigned hindu concerns, while the real independence was fought by INA or it was simply the mobilization by INA. Invariably, seeing this game, the remnant and resurgent hindu powers in the north such as sikhs/dogras/purbias always opposed later maratha intrusions. Northern Hindus would fight nominally under some nawabi banner. Same was done in 1857 when hindus fought in name of the mughal emperor. it was just a formality and signified very little in the turbulent 18th century.
The real heroes usually go unsung.
@@amorphousexistence7741 same goes for Rajputs. Jaisingh on the order of Aurangzeb invaded Maharashtra. Unfortunately Maratha accounts were burnt when Raigad was captured!
My guy, Maratha killed 400k bramhans. I respect Shivaji but his people weren't good. In Bengal we know Marathas as "Borgi" there is famous poetry about Borgi/Maratha here. It says Borgi forced Bengalis to pay more tax. People starved and they experienced a great femine. More than 10m Bengalis died. Yes they did killed innocent hindus and Muslim here. It's not a propaganda, more than 95% people in this territory believe Marathas looted and killed people who didn't paied taxes.
@@jijio000 During their occupation, the Bargi mercenaries of the Marathas perpetrated massacres against the local population. According to one memoir, perhaps close to 400,000 Hindu people in western Bengal and Bihar were killed.
See what Wikipedia says :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratha_invasions_of_Bengal#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DDuring_their_occupation%2C_the_Bargi%2CBengal_and_Bihar_were_killed.?wprov=sfla1
@@zinformative these numbers were claimed by the dutch even the Wikipedia says it , it is not even possible to kill 400000 people at that time , that's just an exaggeration by the outsiders for spreading hate between hindus , the maratha Empire was established for the people 'Swarajya'. Don't blindly believe on what you read, think practically . The nawab ruled the hindus of bengal so of course hindus of bengal were also made to fight the Marathas and we are talking about war, massacre was going to happen at all cost.
@@zinformativei can bet number is not true at all
@@parth158patil I don't care what you bet. It is true and we will never forget what Maratha did to us.
@@parth158patil The history doesn't care about what you bet
Sir please elaborate the greatest memorable moment when Marathas reached till attock and flourished the saffron flag 🚩 Maratha empire from attock to kuttack and from thanjavur to peshavar in which after the barbaric rule of Mughals the 1 hindu empire who've crossed Punjab and 1 time face afghanistan border .....
Sir, you won my heart. I salute to your knowledge. I don't know if you are blessed by Maa Saraswati to possess so much knowledge about sooo many subjects Sir.
One of the most brutal chapters in Bengal's history is the Maratha Bargi raids. During the reign of Nawab Alivardi Khan, from 1742 to 1751, under the leadership of Raghuji Bhonsle and Bhaskar Pandit, the Maratha Bargis repeatedly attacked various regions of Bengal. Their goal was to collect Chauth*, a tax that hadn't been paid to the Mughal Emperor. In the regions of Burdwan, Birbhum, Murshidabad, Rajshahi, Hooghly, Rajmahal, Nadia, and many others, they not only looted hundreds of villages but also killed 400,000 Bengalis. Millions of women were raped! Medieval Bengali poets Bharat Chandra in his *Annadamangal poem and Gangadhar in his Maharashtra Purana have written about those horrific days. Even today, the lullaby “Khoka ghumloo para jurolo Bargi elo deshe / Bulbulite dhan kheyeche khajna debo kise” (The child sleeps, the village rests, but the Bargis have come / The birds have eaten the crops, how will we pay the taxes?) reflects that history. Today's episode will feature a story and historical account of the Bargi raids in Bengal.
Exactly rite sir .. Sringeri Matt was not looted by Shivaji... Temple wealth was taken by some other bugler troop. But in Karnataka wrongly published as maratas looted temple n Tippu gave treasure n money for jirnodaar of temple....
Need to take care of secularism also...
Secularism fuck secualrism
What were pindaris doing in maratha army? We shouldn't hide our mistakes
@@amorphousexistence7741 they are like warlords like you can see same in afaganisthan ....after that incident maratha army punished them
@@bhatusonawane7054 No they were better than afghani warlords. But marathas did compromise on ethics when they dealt with fellow hindu kings.
Shivaji did not plunder Bengal but later Marathas-
The leader of the expeditions was Raghoji Bhonsle of Nagpur.[3] The Marathas invaded Bengal five times from April 1742 to March 1751,[4] which caused widespread economic losses in the Bengal Subah.
Many historians estimate more than 100k civilians killed.
Maratha kings invaded in Bengal and killed many people .In Bengali they are known as bargi.
True one of my Hindu friend Mr Bhattacharyya told the same that how Bengoli use bad words for maratha
Cry😂
@WeAre-p3u they showed cruelty in war on general people
It was not Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. He was a great leader. It was Bhaskar Pandit, who looted Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. Those robbers were called 'Bargi'.
I wonder how ignorant people are in the comments section. I am no communist. But there are enough written records of Maratha atrocities on the common Bengali civilians. Our Houses in Bengal were redesigned completely to block maratha raids at night. There's no communist propaganda, my great grandfathers spoke of 'bargi' raids even before the rise of communism in Bengal.
A staggering 4 lakhs merchants, silk weavers and artisans were killed who could not give money to the maratha convoys.
It's disheartening to see how the fellow Bengalis are glorifying maratha conquests.
This is important. Because in Bengal also we have been told the same. That the Maratha army called "bargi" massacred the Bengalis. But if we read the detailed accounts we would see that the Maratha forces attacked the Nawab of Bengal. They came to conquer Bengal, not to massacre the Bengalis.
But they did massacre the Bengalis, Bengalis wrote many poems about their torturous raids. There is no way at an entire army came down to the villages without harming civilians at all. During war, civilians defend themselves as well, they try to protect their kings and empires as well. Among them were pen warriors who recorded such events through poems and literature. Sorry to disappoint you but that is how the medieval era was. Just admit it already
@ahiduzzamanahir1338 They looted many nobles and their granary. We can guess who the nobles were in the nawab era! And as far as the folk literature goes.... "bargi elo deshe... khajna debo kishe..." Marathas did not take tax from the villagers. Either they would loot as you just said... or they would extract tax from the ruler (if defeated), which in turn would be extracted from the villagers by the local ruler to compensate. And then tales of torturous raids of course do exist...but torture on whom? The nawab and his guardsmen, local chiefs and their immediate men. And very often the rich elite get the privilege of recording history which is read or refered later to write books. Just like we have a Romila Thapar. Come here in Odisha. This area was invaded by the Marathas at the same time and after the invasions, they in fact ruled parts of northern Odisha. Odia people have surnames similar to that of Marathis, celebrate Ganesh Utsav, and share many recipes of similar cuisine. And no popular mention of torturous atrocities. Because they did not read or propagate the nawabi history records of Bengal. Although their folklore and local history mention about the Marathas in various ways, mostly mentioning the guerilla war techniques as later learnt by the paikas of Odisha and restoration of various medieval age temples. History is often subjected to skewed narratives. It's tough to admit that as well....
@ahiduzzamanahir1338 And about civilians defending themselves, the same people say that the Bengalis (typically coward Hindu Bengalis) did nothing during the Palasi war, which is true. They had a deep dissaffection for the nawab for justifiable reasons. They saw the conquest of British as a relief (which was an illusion though). They never resisted the fall of the Nawab of Murshidabad!! Simply because the villages were not attacked. British raj was very much a curse but the villagers did not take interest in the war because they never cared about the Nawab being defeated. So those who say how atrocious the Marathas were and how the common Bengali fought against them, the same bunch of people say that how cowardly the Bengalis were who did nothing to save their nawab from the British, or infact sided with the British! They fought the Marathas and welcomed the British!! Civilians defend and try to protect their king if they care about the king. The majority of the Bengalis hardly cared about the Nawab of Bengal (except for a few of them who probably were employees of the Nawabi administration). So no, villagers or civilians do not fight for their king all the time. A king might be able to impose his rule on the civilians and get obedience. Buy loyalty and support during trouble needs to be "earned".
Yes , Abhijit sir ,Har har mahadev, Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ki Jai 🚩🚩
I am a Bengali myself and a victim of Communist society the only thing I want to say is Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ki jay. Bhagwa lahrayega! ❤️
@@AbdulKarim-ks2uf ?
Marathas raided Bengal in Peshwa era. Actually Pindaris who were irregulars under Maratha command, plundered Bengal and massacred civilians on a mass scale. This can't be denied. However, it should be noted that Maratha regular army never committed atrocities of this magnitude.
@@Sujal9253 I don't think that Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj did anything wrong in raiding Surat. It was a city with immense wealth. Besides, a certain amount of money was demanded from (only) wealthy merchants and when this money was paid, these merchants were left alone without any harm. Those merchants who denied to pay were punished.
There were instances when Adilshahi and Mughal forces raided Marathi territories and even killed innocent poor peasants and carried out rapes. Compared to that, Surat raid was a lot less brutal.
There were two primary objectives of this raid:
1. Collecting funds for building Swarajya (Maratha kingdom).
2. Striking fear in the heart of emperor Aurangzeb by raiding his prized possession.
Raghoji Bhosle sent Bhaskar Pundit to collect chauth from Bengal and they targeted civilians, killed many. Later Marathas after great Chatrapati Shivaji were more interested in Chauth collection. Shivaji would never have allowed it. Shivaji Maharaj is great and will remain great in our hearts.
@@SKumar-mj6gf That's what I was trying to say.
Oh! This explains it. Virji Vora was one of the richest merchants in Surat who lent money to British empire. In fact they say British begged money from Vora continuously - before they pocketed the entire country. So I am sure there were rich predecessors of Virji Vora at Shivaji Mhj times.
Regarding Shivaji Mhj and Bengalis - I think this propaganda is much before communists - maybe the Brits started it. Reason I say is when Swami Vivekananda was an itinerant monk (before 1890s) he stays with a Bengali gentleman by name Haripada Mitra in Belgaum (in Karnataka). Haripada Mitra talks ill of Shivaji and Swami Vivekananda gives him a blistering response saying how ill informed he is about Shivaji Maharaj.
Even communist historians never said Shivaji raided Bengal. Carnatic and Bihar, orissa and Bengal were raided a hundred years after Shivaji by Maharaj Raghuji Bhosale.
Thank god I was born in land of maharashtra and got an opportunity to study about the history of Chatrapati shivaji maharaj and whole Maratha swaraj during my 4th class it self
I remember our teacher always took extra hours after school period for those who wanted to know about our history and use to tell us very interesting great stories
I can't believe many of such kids and people don't know the actual truth and they are the victims of the history written by British officers and some fools . Abhijit sir u are doing good work of spreading the right history and knowledge of this land. Hats off
@@holyturtle1132 Google about him before talking this . history for left wing is different than indian history .
Not the British but Indian brown skinned communists especially Bengalis
I am a Bengali who belongs to the Sanatanic tradition, on the behalf of Bengali culture we will accept the Predominance of any hindu kings even from a different culture or from another part of the country but from the same religion.
rather than accepting any Islamic or Christian ruler.
brother abhijit chavda is biased indian he is not telling truth about marthas killed lakhs of bengali hindus rapes them it is true they did same in other state that why no one support martha during abdali times i am not talking about shivaji mahraj later rulers of martha empires are cruel or lootere how can a bengali people or bihar people forget what did marthas do to them it is just propoganda of maharastrain or rss that marthas are good but they are same as mughall
@@vhy9807 yes like you people who believe on enemies before your own people.
Right now breeds like you are became the most dangerous internal security matter.
Who just believe on anything which serverd by left historians.
Understand the truth Marathas will never do such thing upon there own people read some right history. This is so disappointing that we have to share our land with traitors like you.
But one day will come......that we bring judgement on traitors like you. One day.........
😂😂😂 নব্য ভক্ত
@@vhy9807 Well i guess you don't know even the meaning and difference between religious and Dharm.
That means you are a propa-gandaist 🤣 victim of Mamata Bano.
And there is nothing wrong with being biased if it's a matter of your Dharma and culture.
@@atheistbanerjee008 toke badra ki bolbo tui badra nijye janisha ke WB puratan naam ki chilo. Sri Swami Vivekananda Maharaj Chatrapati Sivajir jonno ki kavita lekhe chilo oitao tu janisna.
Tui badra hochis ar badra thakbhi.😊
Chhatrapati Shivaji maharaj is great person. Love from Mumbai
Please refrain commenting over something you don't know. I'ld like to interfere into your Bengal analysis.
1. It is not a communist propaganda. In 18th Century, a Bengali poet Gangaram wrote "Maharastra Puran", where he described "Bargi" invasion much before communism came.
2. During Bengal invasion Chatrapati Shivaji wasn't in power. It was done by "Pindari"s led by Bhaskar Pandit under Raghoji Bhosle.
3. They killed civilians, especially Brahmins, destroyed temples. Tinkari Ray was one of the zaminders who fought against them. After defeating independent Hindu kingdoms, they attacked Alibardi. The attacks on Hindu kingdoms were completely unnecessary.
Anyway, It was not at all Shivaji's fault. It's the mistake of Raghoji and Bhaskar Pandit.
Bengali child rhyme "Khoka ghumolo, para jurolo" will remember these atrocities.
Denial is the disrespect for the martyrs who died to protect temples.
Bhai ei Gurktkhachoda historian is paid bjp
@@swastikdas4251 He said wrong because of not enough info, but not for propagating any propaganda. He admitted Pindari cruelty in case of Shringeri math. He lacked data or primary evidence.
I don't know why would BJP support this, cause Pindari's aren't maratha, they are a troop consisting mostly M's and a few Maratha.
Bengalis don't not remember
"Alivardi khan's" prowess
How he defeated the Marathas in "The Battle of Burdwan" in 1747 and free Bengal from 9 year long maratha atrocities......
Don't confuse those evil maratha with Great Shivaji ... This happened after shivaji's death ..
On the other hand people of Bengal may not remember their Hindu king "Pratapaditya" who defeated the Mughals thrice in the battlefield and Let Bengal free from Mughal atrocities..
Gangaram, a hindu poet from Bengal in his Maharashtrapuran book, clearly described the atrocities committed by Marathas in Bengal. They don't spared hindus. Loot, gangrape and all kinds of atrocities were committed by them which can only be compared with the atrocities of the armies of Genghis Khan or similar kind of cruel medieval invaders. And, by the way, I want to know how many people, who are commenting below know that out of the 11 personal bodyguards of Shivaji, 8 were Muslim. And the person, whom Shivaji trusted most was Mir Ibrahim Siddiqi. Shivaji was later defeated by the army of Jai Singh, the hindu King of Jaipur. At least, it's clear that many hindus, who were non-maratha, didn't consider Shivaji as their savior.
If the Bengalis would have sustained the Kingdom of Jessore and never fallen apart, The Marathas surely wouldn't had looted Western Bengal. Hail to Chakravartin Rayshreth PratapAditya Ray Guha
Hello Mr .. Marathas invasion of bengal is not a fabricated story......way before even the birth of communism , some riddles or you can say some short poems about maratha invasion have proliferated in the coloqueal words of bengalis ......and you can find their brutality in the writtings of the then poets also......so I think you need to do little bit more research ....but whether its under the command of Shivaji raj.... I cant say that as I dont know it....most probably it was under vaskar pandit.......
Maratha bhaskar pandit killed 4 lakh normal civilians bengali.. Maratha are also cruel same like mughal nothing to be proud of on
Marathas didn't killed Bengals Churchill did
Yeah Churchill just caused the great famine in Bengal because of diversion of food supplies which killed 30 lakh Bengali
By this I recall an incident which occurred on raigarh fort, a saint was sentenced to death for raping a woman under the order of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Now you guys say me he didn't tolerate such kind of activity from highly respected person will he allow his army to perform such aristocracies
The marathas killed 4 lakh bengalis in 10 years between 1741 and 1751. We literally have a folk lullaby in bengali villages describing how the maratha raiders used to force the people to pay tax and the poem is talking about how their crops were eaten by "bulbuli birds" so how can we pay taxes. Such was the oppression of the marathas on the bengali common people
The “folk lullaby” is a fabrication by Alivardi Khan’s court poets. The fictional figure of 4 lakh is based only on the memoir of a single old Dutch factory supervisor called Jan Kasserboom.
Rather Than gooing with Missinfo or propaganda, we have go through sources..
Marathas wanted to free Bengal from Turks..But they failed and Bangladesh was formed 😭.
Thank you very much sir.. Must needed answer 🙏
You should not believe blindly because the fact remains that no hindu king supported adharmic marathas in war against Abdalis. Marathas were tax collectors of Mughals.
@@amorphousexistence7741 and who told you that nobody helped Maratha in war against Abdali
@@greatsirisback441 Seriously man jokers like you make all hindus dhimmi. Every historian wrote that. even marathas say they were left alone against abdalis. Why can't you make a small effort to read history and then argue on public platform?
Shivaji Maharaj looted Surat but there are many european people at that time who praise shivaji maharaj saying that he did not touch them. So calling him looter is not right.
Secondly, shrungeri math was not given back whatever was taken because it was looted by pindharis. Like you said they were not a part of the actual maratha army. They were there to scare the enemy and break their discipline
Chhatrapati shivaji was for hind swaraj, the marathas never killed innocent Indians. HAR HAR MAHADEV
It is strange that our own people question our own great Hindu leader like Chatrapati shivaji maharaj . But don't have guts to say anything about real looters like Mughal and Nizami's. Sad reality of india. thank you sir for fighting for reality and our own people.👍🚩
Maharashtra destroyed Odisha and looted money and Gold from temples of Odisha .
As a Bengali, from a historical standpoint, I disagree with Abhijit on this one. When we were young our grandparents used to sing a lullaby to us "Bargi Elo Deshe, Bulbulite Dhan Kheyeche Khajna debo kishe". This perfectly summed the condition of common Bengalis under Maratha invasions. Bargi here refers to the Maratha Light Cavalry which raided West Bengal under Sri Raghuji Bhonsle between 1741 and 1751. The Marathas imposed a 1.2 million rupees tribute on Alivardi Khan the Nawab of Bengal. Guess where Alivardi got this money from- Bengali farmers, whose lands had already been torched by the "Bargis". Hence the second line "Bulbulite dhan kheyeche" (Crops are gone), "Khajna debo kishe" (How will we pay tax?). Although the Marathas supposedly attacked Bengal Subah as a repurcussion of Alivardi's attacks on Hindu temples in Bhubeshwar, they committed atrocities on Bengali farmers Hindus and Muslims alike. Both Dutch and British sources from the time corroborate each other on these atrocities. I agree with Abhijit that leaders serve a limited group of people. For the later Marathas this group was Marathi Hindus, they were no saviors of Bengali or Odiya Hindus.
Rather Than gooing with Missinfo or propaganda, we have go through sources..
There is a poem by Rabindranath Thakur on Shivaji. Just read about it. The answer will be clear whether Shivaji Maharaj was our saviour or a looter.
As a Bengali we don't know much about Medival Bangla but I know this thing Shivaji Maharaj never looted Bengal. It was Raghoji I Bhonsle who did it.
When Marathas won the wars it's Maratha victory. But when their forces loot and wreck havoc they become Pindaris and other mercenaries. Great logic.
Doesn't it also mean that Maratha commanders did not have a lot of control on the troops in their army ?
Pindari was north indian community specially kept by HOLKAR and Scindia (around 70 years later after death of shivaji )
Pindari were looters whose job was loot areas specially raided or conquered by maratha warriors , and they used to attack on bengal nawab , awaz nawab , bangash pathans , mahadaji scindia who first sppointer pendhari justified it as " since the raid of mahmood ghajani islamic raiders are looting us now its our payback time "
well missinfo/ propaganda formed
@@punitpatil5750they learnt it from islamic invaders. 🤣
Amazingly answered sir
The question was probably asked by a person from the peaceful community 😁 That's why didn't mention its original name.
Exactly 😂😂😂😂😂
Bargi is the word used for the maratha maurdarers.. Is it communist propoganda? Learning it now..
You sir...are a legend
Actually there is incidence in Surat chapter. There was a widow of a wealthy merchant named Parekh. Shivaji Maharaj sent soldiers to there house . They had surround the house. That widow thought these men were there to loot. But she noticed much time was spent but they did nothing. So she sent her servant to enquire. When he asked the soldiers told him that they were there to protect her as in such condition some one may try to take advantage of the situation and do anything wrong.
You are not an honest historian. Marathas did loot Bengali farmers and even in Bihar they did these atrocities . In Bengal they were called Bargis . If any Bengali Civilian didn’t cooperate with Maratha demands during looting, they were killed on the spot . Marathas used Tattu Horse for their sudden attacks in Bengal . And yes they did burn houses & crops .
I am humbled with your knowledge of world history and other subjects. I live on the principles laid down by Chatrpati Shivaji Maharaj. As you have mentioned history is looked from different prisms. We know about Maharaj but there are many lies spred about him in non maharastrians. Today i heard you and you smashed them . Very thankful to you and looing forward for one session on maratha empire and its contributions to Hindavi Swaraj. Thank you
Marathas weren't raiders they were saviors of our nation and culture
@LOL they didn't
@LOL Then Aurangzeb was Savior of Hindus?
@@abdulkarimpuncherwala4063 mula
Brother we bengalis has a folk poem about borgi(Maratha warriors)invasion.According to your theory that poem is a communist propaganda.Btw are you rightist?
All history is false this man is true😂
@Abhijit Chavda Sir,I am from Bengal, and about the story of the raiding of maratha, I want to put out few points first of all its said they raided the present malda region of Bengal, but there has been no records in the writers of that time, here I want put out Malda or most of Bengal belonged to the Mughal, so shouldn't there have been records of it. Now the rise of this concept came from an anonymous song, but if you go by the words carefully you will understand how wrong inference have been drawn from it, the words goes like thess, "ছেলে ঘুমালো, পাড়া জুড়ালো
বর্গী এল দেশে
বুলবুলিতে ধান খেয়েছে
খাজনা দেব কিসে।।"
this is the first paragraph here look at the two words, first bargi, now I have a question, if it's referring to the maratha and being sung by a Bengali then why will they use a parsian word bargi, will not they use dakat, or lootera or if they wanted to mention the marathi so can use the marathi term darodekharo, why instead they use a parsian word, now the other word is khajna, it's was the practice of the time to pay khajan to the rulers and it was under mughal territory so mughal will be paid the khajan....and the later words if you go by you will understand it more clearly, there is a sentence which says we are cultivating garlic and will pay the task with that, but one should remember Marathi's generally don't consume garlic, while the Mughals were massive consumer of it. So the song clearly wants to mention the Mughals but it's been interpreted with a wrong meaning to let a fight among the Hindus themselves and they get the benefits.
Last point Gophal Bhar was a contemporary book written during that period but it has no mention of the raids of marathas but ample mention of the atrocities of the Mughals...
This is my question also. Bargi and Khajna both are persian words and official languages of mughal and turks. We're so dumb, our ancestors told us something else but aren't we believe something else?
Shivaji was defeated by belwadi mallama and she spared his life..
And also maratha forces attacked mysore kingdom and was badly defeated by chikka devraja odeyar..
Whole Maharashtra was once ruled by kannada kingdom, rastrakuta built ajanta ellora..
Tell some truth also..
@adibhau7178 😂😂 ever heard of rashtrakutas?? Ofcourse you don't know the origin of name Maharashtra..who built ajanta ellora caves?? Idly was invented by Tamils and rava idli was invented by MTR which is bengaluru..
Uneducated is not problem for this country only ill educated people like you are problem who don't accept facts even though its true
Yes bargi attack is real
Even there is a poem in Bengali
"Khoka ghumalo para juralo ,Bargi elo desh e, bulbuli te dhan khayeche khajna debo kis e"
That means "kids go for sleep, bargi attackers came and loot everything,rises already gone due to birds,how we will pay taxes"
Shivaji may be a good person,did a lot for hindus
But bargi maratha attackers showed a next level of cruelty and destroyed many innocent lives.
And that's not a communist propaganda
Before 100 yrs of coming of communist theese poem are written,
If u go to murshidabad u will find lots of prove of maratha invasion
I don't know about Surat,..
And these are not myths,I can assure u
( Sorry for bad English)
Thank you for this clarification Abhijit sir. Few days back thee was a Russian man telling me the same thing as to how cruel the Marathas were! At that time I did not know the facts well but I did tell him that this seems like propaganda against Shivaji Maharaj and I would not believe it till I do my own research about this. So thank you again.
Did you don't know about "Borgi" ..The Maratha soldiers who came to bengal and looted more than 10 times and killed millions of civilians.
Superb and perfect answer..and explanation.. 🙏
Sir.. I feel from deep in my heart.. Not only this video but after watching most of your videos.. I strongly feel you must have position in education ministry something like Advisory and Development..
Salute to your knowledge and strong believes about our True History 🙏
What is your source ?
But some Marathas did loot commoners in Bengal they were called 'bargi' in Bengali....and it is present even in an old Bengali lullaby song.
It's called 'bargi elo deshe' (bargi has came to our land).
What I would like to believe is they were some deserted factions of army not belonging to Shivaji .
Agreed...Maratha Bargis are considered among Bengalis as equivalent to dracula
@Awesome Gaming Im talking about Maratha's genocide and loot of bengal nearly 5 or 6 times
Nawabs collapse is a different story who were already by then became incompetent and unworthy to rule
Actually marathas were unethical fighters. They were first Indian rulers who killed common people. Rajputs never did that. They have done that in Rajasthan, Bengal, Karnataka etc. It started happening during peshwa times. Shivaji was still ethical.
@@sahilsagwekar All atrocities were committed by later marathas who collected taxes on behalf of mughals. In fact marathas were mercenaries of mughals.
Bargi is crude form of Persian word Bargir.
Which means "one who bears the burden".
Turk soldiers who brought their own horse from own money, to join the Mughal Army were called Bargir.
The Bargir Regiment of Mughal Cavalry was the most sadistic, savage, inhuman looters ever seen on Indian soil.
How did you believe that Marathas would go up north into Persia (after Persia was already turned into an Islamic state) and bring back a word to use as the name for Maratha Cavalry ?
Communist educators are lunatics...but do you have to believe them? Seriously?
Jayatu Shivaji (जयतु शिवाजी) poem written by a Bengali Poet praising Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
And the name of that great Bengali poet is Ravindranath Tagore
I think that explains everything.
the Sringeri math was not looted by Marathas it was looted by Pindaaris, they were mercenaries and used to fight as belligerents for Maratha Empire, and yes they were later punished by Maratha Commanders on the orders of Peshwa himself.
Infact proper list of merchants sent to Kotwal of Surat with amount but he did not respond and Marathas waited for 3 days outside Surat.
What about Marathas who raided Rajputs and one of them had to commit suicide due to invasion and constant harassment from the Holkers. : Ishwari Singh of Marwar.
Looters are looters, don’t try to glorify them!
Like mughal and delhi sultanate.
They looted aot of wealth.
Listen 👂 carefully sir, the marathas did looted Bengal and kill "civilians" not soldiers that's why we call them "বর্গী" (means bandit race). Next the Bengalis like the Brits because of the cruelty of the marathas in Bengal was increasing and Saha Jahan can't stop it
And remember one thing they killed "civilians" and "raped" our sisters and mothers
And you can't change the fact because this is history
And after watching this video, where you justify the cruelty of the marathas by saying that those were "soldiers". I remember one thing that was said in movie PK, and that was "farzi baba". And you are ont different because you know that peoples were convinced if you told them in English.
Maratha or "Bargi" invasion was so brutal and inhuman that in Maharastra Purana the author Gangaram wrote, "Durga ordered her followers to be gracious to the Muslim Nawab and oppose the Marathas because the evil-minded ones had killed Brahmans and Vaisnavas."
According to P. J. Marshall Bengal: The British Bridgehead "Marathas killed about 400,000 Bengalis during raids just for money." Our grandmother used to sing us a lullaby about farmers who couldn't pay taxes to landlords due to the Bargi invasion - "ছেলে ঘুমালো পাড়া জুড়ালো, 'বর্গি' এলো দেশে, বুলবুলিতে ধান খেয়েছে, খাজনা দিবো কীসে?"
Before Martha and British according to Abhay Kumar Singh in his book "Modern World System and Indian Proto-industrialization: Bengal 1650-1800" Bengal Nawabs and Subedars were able to establish a proto-industrialized state which became the richest nation on earth at that time and people used to live the highest lavish lifestyle. It was used to be called the "Paradise of Nations". During the period of Nawab Shaista Khan, people could buy 320 kg of rice at 1 Taka only (can you imagine!).
If Maratha wouldn't invade Bengal, East and West Bengal might still be in one piece, probably entire India would be in one piece. We would have defeated the British in the long run and could become a world superpower along with US and Russia. So before making a judgment out of emotion, "READ" and learn your history.
@@sks8768 Don't make stories out of emotions. Study, find proof with valid and reliable reference. There was no enimity between Hindu and Muslim in largly social scale until the British rule. And what do you mean by when Abdali attacked "Bharat". Abdali was a hindustani, he was born here, raised here and died here. Just because someone believe in a different religion does not make someone outsider.
@@sks8768 Ya right, I need to read some real (!) books written by fanatics right? And I think you would be delighted to know that there was significant numbers of Muslim soldires and commanders worked under Shibaji rao and there was significant numbers of Hindu soldires and commander worked under Mughals. So much for Hindu-Muslim hatred :'D.
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Mir jafar commander of bengal and many his commanders took side of east India Company.....
Since they want to rule bengal. Bribed by company
And britishers has defeated and killed siraj ud dullah...... Nawab of bengal
Battle of plassey.
Bengal come under Britain.