Shivaji [SEP] father
after a local deity, the goddess Shivai. Shivaji's father Shahaji Bhonsle was a Maratha general who served the Deccan Sultanates. His mother was Jijabai, the daughter of Lakhuji Jadhavrao of Sindhkhed, a Mughal-aligned sardar claiming descent from a Yadav royal family of Devagiri.
At the time of Shivaji's birth, power in Deccan was shared by three Islamic sultanates: Bijapur, Ahmednagar, and Golkonda. Shahaji often changed his loyalty between the Nizamshahi of Ahmadnagar, the Adilshah of Bijapur and the Mughals, but always kept
and Telegraph In Satara District.
- http://www.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/SATARA/comm_post%20and%20Telegraph.html
4.Bhoite's In Sansthani Praja Parishad,Phaltan
- Freedom Movement in Princely States of Maharashtra
By Arun Bhosale, Ashok S. Chousalkar, Lakshminarayana Tarodi, Shivaji University
Published by Shivaji University, 2001
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized 3 Sep 2008
238 pages
5.Phaltan Tehsils Villages List :
- http://www.pmgsyonline.nic.in/aspnet/Citizens/DG/05DVC/CensusStatus.aspx?state=MH&district=27&block=4&reportLevel=3
6.Bhoite Clan Information'
Keshavrao Ramchandra Thorat