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India to get her own 'liberty' statue soon
By Gautam Nair
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Posted 04 June 2008 @ 02:59 pm GMT
A statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. If the state government of Mumbai gets its way, India will soon have her own Statue of Liberty that will rival New York's, albeit with a difference - the statue will be that of a warrior king.
Chhatrapati Shivaji, also known as Shivaji Bhosle, was the founder of Maratha empire in western India in 1674.
He is considered a great hero in India, especially in the present-day state of Maharashtra. Using guerrilla tactics well suited to the rugged mountains and valleys of the region, his numerically smaller army successfully resisted expansion plans of the dominant Mughal empire and annexed land from its Muslim rulers.
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