#Bahinabai

“She saved the Maratha state in seven years, was discarded by it for fifty, and outlived everyone — and both Maratha thrones that exist today, Satara and Kolhapur, exist because of what she did between 1700 and 1707.”

“With the capital lost, the king dead and the heir four years old, a twenty-five-year-old widow took command of the Maratha war and made Aurangzeb's rear cost more than his front — until the emperor died in camp, after twenty-six years, holding nothing.”