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A Memorial at Pratapgad, One Year After UNESCO: Who Gets Remembered on a World Heritage Fort

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Maharashtra's Tourism Minister announced in the Legislative Assembly in July 2026 that ₹1 crore has been sanctioned for the first phase of a memorial to Veer Jivaji Mahale at the foothills of Pratapgad Fort, following long-standing demands from organisations associated with Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's legacy. Mahale, Shivaji's bodyguard, is remembered in Maratha tradition for foiling an attack on the ruler during the Battle of Pratapgad on 10 November 1659 — the encounter with the Bijapur commander Afzal Khan that marked Shivaji's emergence as a major military power and began the decline of the Adil Shahi Sultanate, which finally fell to the Mughals in 1686. The timing is notable: Pratapgad is one of twelve forts inscribed as the 'Maratha Military Landscapes of India' on the UNESCO World Heritage List on 11 July 2025 at the World Heritage Committee's 47th session in Paris, making it part of India's 44th World Heritage property. The announcement therefore sits at the intersection of three examinable themes — Maratha military architecture, the management obligations that follow World Heritage inscription, and the politics of commemoration at a site now under international protection.

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Q1. With reference to the Maratha Military Landscapes of India, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, which one of the following statements is correct?

AAll twelve component forts lie within Maharashtra.
BThe property was inscribed in 2025 as India's first World Heritage property of the cultural category.
CThe forts lie entirely within the Sahyadri range, which gives the property its coherence.
DIt comprises twelve forts spanning four terrains — the Sahyadri range, the Deccan plateau, the Konkan coast and the Eastern Ghats — of which eleven are in Maharashtra and one, Gingee, in Tamil Nadu.
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Q2. Which one of the following best states the historical significance of the Battle of Pratapgad, fought on 10 November 1659?

AIt marked the Maratha defeat of a Mughal army and the beginning of Aurangzeb's Deccan campaigns.
BShivaji's defeat of Afzal Khan established him as a major military power and began the decline of the Adil Shahi Sultanate of Bijapur, which fell to the Mughals in 1686.
CIt secured the Konkan coast for the Marathas and led directly to the construction of Sindhudurg and Vijaydurg.
DIt was the engagement in which Shivaji was crowned Chhatrapati, the coronation being held at the fort thereafter.
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Q3. Consider the following statements regarding Pratapgad: 1. It is a hill fort at about 1,080 metres in Satara district, commissioned by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj with construction supervised by Moropant Trimbak Pingle and completed in 1656. 2. It has a bilevel plan, the upper fort carrying a Mahadev temple and the lower fort a Bhavani temple. 3. The bronze equestrian statue of Shivaji at the fort was unveiled in 1957 by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Which of the statements given above are correct?

A1 only
B1 and 2 only
C2 and 3 only
D1, 2 and 3
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