Jaoli (or Jawali) principality was a

Jagir A jagir (), ( Hindustani: जागीर/جاگیر, ''Jāgīr''), ( Marathi: जहागीर, ''Jahāgīrá'') also spelled as jageer, was a type of feudal land grant in the Indian subcontinent at the foundation of its Jagirdar ( Zamindar ...

of Maratha

Morè (clan) Morè is the name of a Maratha clan as well as a Mahar, Mahar clan from the state of Maharashtra. Members of the More Maratha clan as well as the Mahar clan use the clan name as their surname. The totem associated with the clan is a peacock. Memb ...

which is located in the western part of the present day

Maharashtra Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...

state.

Jaoli Jaoli is a tehsil, a taluka in subdivision of Satara district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. History Jaoli is identified with the ''Jāvala-vāṭikā'' mentioned in the Pāṇḍaraṅgapallī grant of the early Rashtrakuta king ...

was seen as a strategically important by Shivaji Maharaj as it is surrounded by dense forest with 13 forts.

History

The state was centred on the valley surrounding

.Battacharya, Sachchidananda. ''A Dictionary of Indian History'' (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1977) p. 516-517. Parsoji Moré a high ranking Maratha noble under

Yusuf Adil Shah Yusuf Adil Shah (1450 – 5 December 1510), referred as Yusuf Adil Khan or Hidalcão by the Portuguese, was the founder of the Adil Shahi dynasty that ruled the Sultanate of Bijapur for nearly two centuries. As the founder of the Adil Shahi dyna ...

was sent in konkan to finish of the remnants of

Shirke The Shirke is a clan (Gotra) found in several castes such as Koli, Maratha, Agri, found largely in Maharashtra and bordering states of India. History The Shirke clan held Deshmukhi rights in the areas of coastal Konkan in present day state of ...

chiefs in konkan, by doing so he established the Jaoli state as a vassal of Adilshahi Sultanate and received the title Chandra Rao which his descendants continued to bear. Parsoji was the son of Bajirao Moré who was a noble under the

Vijayanagara Empire The Vijayanagara Empire, also known as the Karnata Kingdom, was a late medieval Hinduism, Hindu empire that ruled much of southern India. It was established in 1336 by the brothers Harihara I and Bukka Raya I of the Sangama dynasty, belongi ...

and a descent of Mauryas of Konkan a branch of the Imperial

Mauryan Empire The Maurya Empire was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in South Asia with its power base in Magadha. Founded by Chandragupta Maurya around c. 320 BCE, it existed in loose-knit fashion until 185 BCE. The primary sourc ...

. In the 1650s, it was ruled by Yashwantrao Moré who called himself the king of

Konkan The Konkan is a stretch of land by the western coast of India, bound by the river Daman Ganga at Damaon in the north, to Anjediva Island next to Karwar town in the south; with the Arabian Sea to the west and the Deccan plateau to the eas ...

. He claimed to rule by the divine sanction of the god Mahabaleshwar (an aspect of

Shiva Shiva (; , ), also known as Mahadeva (; , , Help:IPA/Sanskrit, ɐɦaːd̪eːʋɐh and Hara, is one of the Hindu deities, principal deities of Hinduism. He is the God in Hinduism, Supreme Being in Shaivism, one of the major traditions w ...

), and had been formally recognized as the local ''Raje'' (king) by the Adil Shah. Around 1656,

Shivaji Shivaji I (Shivaji Shahaji Bhonsale, ; 19 February 1630 – 3 April 1680) was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle dynasty. Shivaji carved out his own independent kingdom from the Sultanate of Bijapur that formed the genesis of the ...

- Son of Shahaji (another commander of Adil Shah) forcibly captured Jaoli in the Battle of Javali. Shivaji, who had similarly captured other territories in the area, justified his action to the Adil Shah, arguing that he governed these territories better than the deposed rulers did. However, the Adil Shah doubted Shivaji's loyalty, and sent his general Afzal Khan against Shivaji. Shivaji defeated Afzal Khan, and went on to establish an independent kingdom that evolved into the

Maratha Empire The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern India, early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent. It comprised the realms of the Peshwa and four major independent List of Maratha dynasties and states, Ma ...

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