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<div>{{Short description|Peshwa of the Maratha Empire from 1674 to 1683}}<br />
{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Moropant Trimbak Pingale<br />
| honorific_prefix = ''[[Peshwa|Shrimant Peshwa]]''<br />
| office = [[File:Flag of the Maratha Empire.svg|33x30px]] 1st [[Peshwa]] of the [[Marathas]]<br />
| blank1 = [[Royal House|House]]<br />
| data1 = Pingale<br />
| image = <br />
| caption = Srimant Moropant Pingale first Peshwa of Maratha Empire<br />
| term = 6 June 1674–1683<br />
| monarch = [[Shivaji]], [[Sambhaji]]<br />
| predecessor = ''Position established''<br />
| successor = [[Moreshvar Pingale]]<br />
| spouse = <br />
| children = {{plainlist|<br />
*[[Moreshvar Pingale|Nilakanth Moreshvar Pingale]] (son)<br />
*[[Bahiroji Pingale]] (son)}}<br />
| titles = <br />
| father = Trimbak Pingale<br />
| mother = <br />
| birth_date = {{circa|1620}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Nimgaon (H)|Nimgaon]]<br />
| death_date = 1683<br />
| death_place = [[Raigad Fort|Raigad Fort, Raigad]], [[Maratha Empire]] (present-day [[Maharashtra]], India)<br />
| battles = * [[Battle of Pratapgarh]]<br />
* Battle of Salher<br />
}}<br />
'''Moropant Trimbak Pingale''' (1620–1683), was a Maratha military commander who also served as the first [[Peshwa]] of the [[Maratha Empire]] during the reign of [[Shivaji Maharaj|Chhatrapati Shivaji]] as a member of [[Ashta Pradhan]] (Council of Eight Ministers).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=deHZAUDHzYwC&q=%22review+in+short+the+organisation%22 Shivaji, the great Maratha, Volume 2], H. S. Sardesai, Genesis Publishing Pvt Ltd, 2002, {{ISBN|81-7755-286-4}}, {{ISBN|978-81-7755-286-7}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Moropant Trimbak Pingle was born to a [[Deshastha Brahmin]] family<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=iF8MAAAAIAAJ Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and the Maratha Art of War By Murlidhar Balkrishna Deopujari, Page 254]</ref> in 1620 Nimgaon. In 1647, he joined [[Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj]] in establishing the [[Maratha Empire]].<br />
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==Military career==<br />
{{Further information|Battle of Pratapgarh|Battle of Salher}}<br />
He was one of the [[warrior]]s who participated in the successful [[Battle of Pratapgarh|1659 battle]] of Shivaji Maharaj's forces against the forces of [[Bijapur Sultanate|Bijapur]]'s [[Ali Adil Shah II|Adil Shah]] which immediately followed Adil Shah's general [[Afzalkhan|Afzalkhān]]'s death at Jāwali. He also participated in the battles at Trimbakeshwar Fort and Wāni-[[Dindori, Madhya Pradesh|Dindori]] against the [[Mughal Empire]]. He participated in Shivaji's invasion of [[Surat]] in 1664. He also participated in the Battle of Salher. Moropant surrounded and attacked the 25,000 strong Mughal infantry at Salher with his 20,000 infantry. Prominent Maratha Sardar and Shivaji's childhood friend Suryaji Kakde was killed by a Zamburak cannon in the battle. Chhatrapati Sambhaji son of Shivaji stayed with Moropant's relatives in Mathura after their escape from [[Agra]].{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}.<br />
Moropant introduced sound revenue administration to [[Shivaji]]'s regime, and played an important role in resource planning concerning defenses and maintenance of strategic forts. He was also responsible for the construction and administration of [[Pratapgad]]. At Chhatrapati Shivaji's death, Moropant Pingale was working as a supervisor of fort development activities in [[Nashik]] District for the Salher-Mulher forts.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}} Under Shivaji Maharaj's successor, [[Chhatrapati Sambhaji]], he also participated in the battle of [[Burhanpur]] in 1681 which resulted in the sacking of the important [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] trade centre of Burhanpur. He was killed during an ambush by [[Mughals|Mughal]] forces in 1683.<br />
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==References==<br />
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