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| name = Shiva Digvijaya<br />
| author = Anonymous<br />
| title_orig = Shri-Shiva-Digvijaya<br />
| orig_lang_code = mr<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = [[Marathi language|Marathi]]<br />
| subject = Biography of [[Shivaji]]<br />
| genre = [[Bakhar]]<br />
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'''''Shri-Shiva-Digvijaya''''' ([[IAST]]: ''Śrī-Śiva-Digvijaya'') is a [[Marathi language]] biography of [[Shivaji]], the founder of the [[Maratha Empire]]. The title of the text is also transliterated as ''Shiva-digvijay '' and ''Shiv-digvijay'' because of [[Schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages|schwa deletion]].<br />
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The text is an anonymous work,<ref>{{cite book |author=Prachi Deshpande |title=Creative Pasts: Historical Memory and Identity in Western India, 1700-1960 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=96qrAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA223 |year=2007 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-12486-7 |page=223 }}</ref> but L. K. Dandekar and P. R. Nandurbarkar - who edited it in 1895 - attributed its authorship to [[Khando Ballal]] (1718), the son of Shivaji's secretary Balaji Avji.<ref>{{cite book |author=Surendra Nath Sen |title=Administrative System of the Marathas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jF8MAAAAIAAJ |year=1976 |publisher=K. P. Bagchi |pages=2-3 }}</ref> Historians such as [[Jadunath Sarkar]] and Surendra Nath Sen reject this attribution, and consider the text to be a modern forgery.<ref>{{cite book |author=Jagadish Narayan Sarkar |title=History of History Writing in Medieval India |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12225 |year=1977 |publisher=Ratna Prakashan |page=[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12225/page/n31 7] }}</ref> Astronomer S. B. Dixit dated the text to 1818 - a century later than the year that Dandekar and Nandurbarkar date it to.<ref>{{cite book |author1=B. K. Ahluwalia |author2=Shashi Ahluwalia |title=Shivaji and Indian Nationalism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lAAeAAAAMAAJ |year=1984 |publisher=Cultural Publishing House |page=72 }}</ref><br />
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Sarkar theorizes that the text was forged by a writer of [[Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu|Kayastha Prabhu caste]] to glorify the [[Kayastha]]s as Shivaji's greatest and most loyal supporters.<ref>{{cite book |editor=Hari Ram Gupta |title=Sir Jadunath Sarkar Commemoration Volumes: Life or letters of Sir Jadunath Sarkar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FFzRAAAAMAAJ |year=1957 |publisher=Department of History, Panjab University |page=258 }}</ref> According to him, the text published by Dandekar and Nandurbarkar is a modern work, although its core portion may have been a [[lost work]] composed during 1760-1775.<ref>{{cite book |author=Dipesh Chakrabarty |title=The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4gPhCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA158 |year=2015 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-24024-4 |page=158 }}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Shivaji]]<br />
[[Category:19th-century Indian books]]<br />
[[Category:Bakhars]]<br />
[[Category:Biographies about royalty]]<br />
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