Aurangzeb wished to turn Burhanpur into the capital city and appointed Bahadur Khan as the Subhedar who made the lives of its residents miserable. Unable to tolerate this, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj raids the city and saves the people from the unjust rule.
Ahilyabai was born on May 31, 1725 in the village of Chaundi, in the present-day Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra. Her father, Mankoji Shinde, was the patil of the village, a member of the proud Dhangar community. Women then did not go to school, but Ahilyabai's father taught her to read and...
