Karnavati: Bharatiya Vichar Manch, Karnavati Center organized a conversational talk on Hindvi Shasan  aur Surajya: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ki Sankalpana on Thursday at Lions Hall,  Karnavati by Dr. Ajit Apte. He has done a doctorate in management Style of Shivaji Maharaj.  Dr. Apte is the only person in India and the world to have received a doctorate degree on  Shivaji Maharaj and the entire audience experienced deep study and information during his  speech. 

Author of 2 important books on Shivaji Maharaj and one of the most brilliant thinkers of  Maratha and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Dr. Ajit Apte is also a familiar face among Indian  historians, according to him we do not know other aspects of Shivaji Maharaj. When Shivaji’s  name is mentioned, we remember the words Swarajya maker, Hindu warrior but in the 35  years of Maharaj’s tenure, he devoted only seven and a half years to the war and its  preparations, while the rest of the time he was busy in civil administrative arrangements. He 

proved to be a skilled administrator, good businessman, skilled manager of finance, excellent  human resource manager, merchant navy organizer, diplomat, and an excellent market  researcher. 

Another virtue of Shivaji Maharaj was that even after many wars he gave priority to human  values and that is why the study of Shivaji Maharaj is very necessary for today’s era. Maharaj  was a man of action in Hindu ideology and his main goal was public welfare, in which he  constantly strived to establish a relationship of trust between the ruler and the people. 

Dr. Apte did his Ph.D. on the subject of Shivaji. Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was  among those who inspired him to do so, she once said in a speech that we belittle Shivaji  Maharaj by using words like Marathi and Hindu for him, he is a global leader and by using  such words for him we make him a local leader. 

Surat was raided and plundered by Shivaji in 1664 and 1670, for which there is a  misconception that the plunder was the cause of the rift between the Gujaratis and the  Marathas, but the truth is that it was revenge for Aurangzeb’s looting of Pune in 1660 and  1663. Aurangzeb was getting a lot of revenue from Surat, which at that time was in lakhs of 

rupees. It is also important to know here that in this attack, special instructions were given  by Shivaji not to harm children, women, old people, and religious sentiments. 

When Shivaji had to deal in international trade, he left a deep impression as a skilled  merchant by creating his own navy and that is why he is also known as the father of the  Indian Navy. When the Portuguese, French, Dutch and English were dominant in  international trade, he built his own ships up to Iraq in partnership with the Imam of Muscat  with the policy of The enemy of my enemy is my friend. 

Three things are important in financial planning. First, wealth creation, second wealth  appropriation, and third wealth distribution. Shivaji Maharaj proved adept at arranging these  three things. After his death, the government treasury had 9 crores of political funds. While,  clothes, gold and silver ornaments, pearls, and gems together were 25 thousand crore  rupees. Apart from this, as far as weapons and equipment are concerned, there were about  1 lakh 80 thousand arrows. He allocated a budget of 7 lakh 50 thousand rupees annually for  the ports, according to him it was not an expenditure but an investment, this alone is enough  to prove Shivaji a visionary. According to him, after his death, Aurangzeb will invade Raigad  and whether I stay or not, my kingdom should be safe and that’s why Maharaj built 360 forts  and each fort was prepared to fight the enemy’s army for 1 year. As predicted by Shivaji,  after one and a half years of his death, Aurangzeb invaded Raigad and fought for 27 years.  Ruled Delhi for 50 years, but his position weakened due to war, which was a strategy of  Shivaji Maharaj. 

An English researcher Phillips Masers studied about 5 thousand kings of India with the aim  of finding out the reason of British rule over India. Of which the greatest ruler was  Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the founder of the Maratha Empire. According to the researcher,  good care of the army and nationalism, these two important things that make Shivaji stand  out from others. And a lesser-known but explosive conclusion of his research is also worth  knowing, according to him, if Shivaji Maharaj lived for 5 more years, the British would have  failed to rule India, and the people of this country forgotten Shivaji Maharaj, thus they  became slaves of the British. 

At the end of the talk, Dr. Apte also said less likable things like nowadays, Hindus lack the  sense of having their own Hindu ruler and even if the idea comes, it doesn’t last long. Later  he added that the study of Shivaji by should be done from K.G. to P.G., i.e. the curriculum  from Kindergarten to Post Graduation should include Shiva Charitra book based on the life  of Shivaji. Further, the speaker said, He always leads by example. He was always ready to  do the hardest work first and lay down his life for the nation, due to which the people were  willing to do anything for the Maharaja.

BHARATIYA VICHAR MANCH has been working in the ideological field in Gujarat for the past  30 years. At a time when India is poised to become the cultural leader of the world with its  huge youth power, it is necessary to re-instill Indian values among the youth and BHARATIYA  VICHAR MANCH is constantly striving for it. During the year, we organize several regional  and national conferences.  DeshGujarat