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Portrait or photograph of Shivaji: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and his army.

Virtual Memorial

Shivaji

A Memory Realm virtual memorial place honoring Shivaji, remembered for Maratha Empire, Military leadership, Regional statecraft.

1630 - 1680Pune, India
Portrait or photograph of Shivaji: This is the painting of Maratha ruler Shivaji, drawn by prominent Indian artist MV Bhasker, who died in 1944.
This is the painting of Maratha ruler Shivaji, drawn by prominent Indian artist MV Bhasker, who died in 1944. Ravinder Singh Gill, https://secure.flickr.com/photos/75961030@N07/6971797268/, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Why Shivaji Is Remembered

Shivaji is remembered for maratha empire, military leadership, regional statecraft. This public page gives visitors a concise starting point for understanding why this figure remains part of cultural, civic, scientific, or literary memory.

The page is designed as an accessible introduction rather than an exhaustive account, with source links and image credits kept visible for further reading.

A Virtual Memorial in Memory Realm

This Memory Realm memorial hall turns a map reference into a virtual place for discovery. Visitors can move from the public page to the map and then into a 3D memorial hall connected to Shivaji.

The place is part of Memory Realm's virtual layer. It is not a physical marker and does not claim rights, control, access, endorsement, or affiliation connected to a real-world site.

Place Context

Pune, India is used as a broad spatial reference for this memorial hall because it is connected to Shivaji's story, memory, or public legacy. The location is intentionally city-level or region-level so the page can provide orientation without implying a claim over a specific property or institution.

Historical Context

Shivaji I was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle dynasty. Shivaji inherited a fiefdom from his father who served as a retainer for the Sultanate of Bijapur, which later formed the genesis of the Maratha Kingdom. In 1674, he was formally crowned the Chhatrapati of his realm at Raigad Fort.

Memory Realm presents this context for educational discovery and remembrance, with public source links and media attribution preserved alongside the page content.

Photos

Portrait or photograph of Shivaji: Author: Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920 Subject: India -- History Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press Possible copyright stat

Author: Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920 Subject: India -- History Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT Language: English Call number: AFA

Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920, https://archive.org/details/oxfordstudentshi00smituoft, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Portrait or photograph of Shivaji: Shivaji (1627-1680) with a sword in his right hand and a lance in his left. Folio 46 of the Witsen Album.

Shivaji (1627-1680) with a sword in his right hand and a lance in his left. Folio 46 of the Witsen Album.

Unknown author Unknown author, http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.457464, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Portrait or photograph of Shivaji: Shivaji portrait, from Kincaid and Parasnis

Shivaji portrait, from Kincaid and Parasnis

Anonymous Unknown author, A history of the Maratha People, Vol I, by C A Kincaid & D B Parasnis, 1918, Oxford University Press https://archive.org/details/historyofmaratha01kinc, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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