Shirpamal is a tourist destination on Jawhar Nashik Road in Dharampur, near to
Jawhar
Jawhar is a city and a municipal council in Palghar district of Maharashtra state in Konkan division of India. Jawhar was a capital city of the erstwhile Koli princely state of Jawhar.
Situated in the ranges of the Western Ghats, Jawhar is k ...
City in
Maharashtra,
India
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.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaja marched to
Surat
Surat is a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The word Surat literally means ''face'' in Gujarati and Hindi. Located on the banks of the river Tapti near its confluence with the Arabian Sea, it used to be a large seaport. It is no ...
with the
Maratha army
The Maratha Army was the land-based armed forces of the Maratha Empire, which existed from the late 17th to the early 19th centuries in India.
17th century
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the founder of Maratha Empire, raised a small yet effective l ...
. They set up camp near the princely state of
Jawhar
Jawhar is a city and a municipal council in Palghar district of Maharashtra state in Konkan division of India. Jawhar was a capital city of the erstwhile Koli princely state of Jawhar.
Situated in the ranges of the Western Ghats, Jawhar is k ...
and met the
Koli
Koli may refer to:
Places
* Koli, Finland, a hill in Finland
* Koli National Park, a national park in Finland
* Koli, Iran (disambiguation), several places in Iran
* Koli Airfield, a former airfield in the South Pacific
Other uses
* Koli people ...
ruler
Vikramshah Mukne of Jawhar. Together they invaded Surat. Shirpamal was the meeting place of Shivaji and Vikramshah and has since become a historical monument. Chhatrapati Shivali Maharaj Visited Shirpamal at Jawhar on 31 December 1664. On 1 May 1995
Rajaram Mukne, President of Jawhar Municipal Council erected a memorial of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at this place to commemorate this historic moment.
References
Historic sites in India
Battlefields
Koli people
1864 establishments in India
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