The great Maratha Warrior Shivaji’s son Sambhaji was captured by Mughals, dressed as a buffoon and paraded on camel, executed, cut into pieces and fed to dogs because he denied to convert to Islam, as per “Maasir-i-Alamgiri” of Saqi Must’ad Khan.<\/p>\n\n\n
After Shivaji’s death, Shambhaji became the king of Marathas.<\/p>\n\n\n
Sambhaji fought bravely by putting up gallant resistance against Mughals for nine years. <\/p>\n\n\n
However, he was betrayed by his own relatives, the Shikre family. In 1689, his relatives revealed about his location to Mughals.<\/p>\n\n\n
Mughal troops suddenly plunge into a resting Sambhaji and captured him. He was dressed as buffoon and paraded on camel. Wife and daughters were captured and enslaved.<\/p>\n\n\n
Aurangzeb offered to spare Sambhaji\u2019s life if he agrees to his two conditions:
1)If he converted to Islam
2)If he surrendered forts, men and treasures <\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cI would not convert to Islam even if Aurangzeb bribed me with marriage to his daughter\u201d said the brave warrior Sambhaji.<\/p>\n\n\n
Sambhaji was captured by the Mughals. His eyes were plucked out. His tongue was cut out. After a fortnight\u2019s physical torture, his limbs were hacked into pieces and fed to dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n
In Maasir I Alamgiri, the official” Mughal-sponsored history record of Aurangzeb<\/strong><\/em>, it says Aurangzeb did this to Sambhaji “out to his devotion to Islam so that Muslims might be heartened and (Hindu) infidels disheartened”<\/p>\n\n\n Image Source<\/em>: TrueIndology <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The great Maratha Warrior Shivaji’s son Sambhaji was captured by Mughals, dressed as a buffoon and paraded on camel, executed, cut into pieces and fed to dogs because he denied to convert to Islam, as per “Maasir-i-Alamgiri” of Saqi Must’ad Khan. After Shivaji’s death, Shambhaji became the king of Marathas. Sambhaji fought bravely by putting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[166,167,168,169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}