MILITARY ADMINISTRATION OF SHIVAJI

Who is this?

• Bahadur shah zafar

• Bal gangadar thilak

• Chatrapathi shivaji

• Ahmadshah abdali

Shivaji’s army has 2 main divisions; __________________ and cavalry soldiers.

• walking soldiers

• infantry soldiers

• soldiers on horseback

• non cavalry soldiers

cavalry soldiers fought on __________.

• horsebacks

• foot

• armed forces

Due to the other kingdoms attacking through the sea, shivaji maintained a _________ army too.

• air force

• land force

• navy

• army

Infantry soldiers fought by __________.

• riding on horsebacks

• foot

• leg

Shivaji’s successors were____________.

• weak

• strong

• brave

• slow

the ________ started to rule the Maratha region by the ________century.

• peshwas; nineteenth

• pant sachiv; eighteenth

• senapati; seventeenth

• peshwas; eighteenth

During the reign of the Peshwas the Maratha region grew more _______and ________.

• powerful and dominant

• weak and powerless

• bad and least known for

The Maratha kingdom became _________ after their defeat to _____________ whilst the third battle of Panipat in 1761.

• powerful; Ahmad Shah Abdali

• weak; Ahmad Shah Abdali

• strong; mohammad shah

• sturdy; bahadur shah zafar

Due to the breaking of the Maratha empire, ______ grew stronger in that region.

• french

• british

• portugeese

• spanish