Sambhaji

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Book</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A MASSIVE BESTSELLER THAT HAS SOLD OVER 100000 COPIES IN MARATHI.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Even as a child Sambhaji has known he must stand alone. His mother died when he was barely two and his father was always absent-chasing his own dream of 'Swaraj' fighting to keep the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb at bay. As the eldest son Sambhaji is the true heir to Shivaji. He is valorous wise and has the makings of a capable statesman. But there are dark forces at play in the palace.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Shivaji's other queen Soyrabai is scheming to place her son Rajaram on the throne and she has the support of several ministers whose misdemeanours Sambhaji is determined to expose. On 3 April 1680 Shivaji dies unexpectedly and it is finally time for Sambhaji to rise to the challenge. He must now fight Aurangzeb who has spent twenty years trying to smoke out the 'mountain rat' and whose presence in the Deccan poses an increasingly grave threat to the Maratha empire. And what could be better than the enemy's own brother-in-law willing to hand him the rat on a platter.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Cinematic and ambitious in its scope this is a keenly researched and splendidly executed period drama about one man's struggle to preserve his father's legacy and of the price extracted by the throne and the homeland.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Author</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Vishwas Patil is one of the most acclaimed Marathi writers today. He has written iconic novels like </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ranangan Chandramukhi Pangira Zadazadati Panipat</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sambhaji</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. He received the Nath Madhav Award and the Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad Award for Panipat; the Priyadarshini National Award the Vikhe Patil Award and the Sahitya Akademi Award for </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Zhadazdati</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>; and the Gadkari Award for </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mahanayak.</em></p><p><br></p>