angre kanhoji
CASEKANHOJI
STUDY ON LEADERSHIP
ANGRE
SCOPE
• INTRODUCTION
• BIOGRAPHY
• CAMPAIGNS
• BASES OF KANHOJI
• BATTLES
• TRIBUTE
• LEGACY
INTRODUCTION
• INDIA’S GREAT EMPIRES USED THE SEA FOR TRADE
AND PROSPERITY; RARELY HAVE THEY LOOKED TO
THE SEA FOR MILITARY OR COMMERCIAL MIGHT
• YET IN THE EMERGENT PERIOD OF EUROPEAN
COLONIALISM, BEGINNING IN THE LATE 17TH AND
EARLY 18TH CENTURIES, A SINGLE, SEMIAUTONOMOUS FIGURE EMERGED ALONG THE
KONKAN COAST AS THE FIRST INDIGENOUS
DEFENDER OF LOCAL SOVEREIGNTY OVER COASTAL
WATERS: A MAN CALLED KANHOJI ANGRE.
• IT WAS SHIVAJI MAHARAJ, THE FIRST AMONG
THE INDIAN RULERS TO FULLY COMPREHEND
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NAVAL POWER, AND TO
INDEED BUILD AN INVINCIBLE NAVY
• AFTER SHIVAJI'S DEATH, IT WAS KANHOJI ANGRE,
WHO CARRIED THE MANTLE FORWARD AND
CREATED SUCH A FIRM GRIP FOR THE MARATHAS
ON THE NAVAL POWER, THAT HIS NAME BECAME
SYNONYMOUS WITH NAVAL SUPREMACY OVER
THE WESTERN WATERS FOR THE NEXT NINETY
BIOGRAPHY
• KANHOJI'S PERSONA WAS FORMIDABLE -LARGE,
WELL-BUILT MAN WITH BEARD, AWE-INSPIRING
FACE AND SHARP GAZE
• HE HAD TREMENDOUS PATIENCE, POISE AND
PERSEVERANCE
• APART FROM BEING A BRAVE WARRIOR, HE WAS
AN ASTUTE STATESMAN
• HISTORICAL PAPERS UNDER HIS HAND ARE
TESTIMONY TO CLARITY OF THOUGHT-PROCESS
CAMPAIGN
• KANHOJI ANGRE or SARKHEL ANGRE (SARKHEL IS A TITLE EQUAL TO
ADMIRAL OF A FLEET) (August 1669 – 4 July 1729)
• FIRST NOTABLE CHIEF OF THE MARATHA NAVY IN 18TH CENTURY
INDIA
• HE FOUGHT AGAINST THE BRITISH, DUTCH AND PORTUGUESE
NAVAL INTERESTS ON THE COASTS OF INDIA DURING THE 18TH
CENTURY.
• AS A RESULT, HIS EUROPEAN ENEMIES LABELED HIM A PIRATE.
• DESPITE THE ATTEMPTS OF THE BRITISH AND PORTUGUESE TO
SUBDUE ANGRE, HE REMAINED UNDEFEATED UNTIL HIS DEATH
• HE WAS ORIGINALLY APPOINTED AS SURKHEL OR DARYASARANGA (ADMIRAL) BY THE CHIEF OF SATARA IN 1698.
• HE WAS MASTER OF THE WESTERN COAST OF INDIA FROM
MUMBAI TO VINGORIA (NOW VENGURLA) IN PRESENT-DAY STATE
OF MAHARASHTRA
• KANHOJI STARTED HIS LONG HISTORY OF
STUDY ON LEADERSHIP
ANGRE
SCOPE
• INTRODUCTION
• BIOGRAPHY
• CAMPAIGNS
• BASES OF KANHOJI
• BATTLES
• TRIBUTE
• LEGACY
INTRODUCTION
• INDIA’S GREAT EMPIRES USED THE SEA FOR TRADE
AND PROSPERITY; RARELY HAVE THEY LOOKED TO
THE SEA FOR MILITARY OR COMMERCIAL MIGHT
• YET IN THE EMERGENT PERIOD OF EUROPEAN
COLONIALISM, BEGINNING IN THE LATE 17TH AND
EARLY 18TH CENTURIES, A SINGLE, SEMIAUTONOMOUS FIGURE EMERGED ALONG THE
KONKAN COAST AS THE FIRST INDIGENOUS
DEFENDER OF LOCAL SOVEREIGNTY OVER COASTAL
WATERS: A MAN CALLED KANHOJI ANGRE.
• IT WAS SHIVAJI MAHARAJ, THE FIRST AMONG
THE INDIAN RULERS TO FULLY COMPREHEND
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NAVAL POWER, AND TO
INDEED BUILD AN INVINCIBLE NAVY
• AFTER SHIVAJI'S DEATH, IT WAS KANHOJI ANGRE,
WHO CARRIED THE MANTLE FORWARD AND
CREATED SUCH A FIRM GRIP FOR THE MARATHAS
ON THE NAVAL POWER, THAT HIS NAME BECAME
SYNONYMOUS WITH NAVAL SUPREMACY OVER
THE WESTERN WATERS FOR THE NEXT NINETY
BIOGRAPHY
• KANHOJI'S PERSONA WAS FORMIDABLE -LARGE,
WELL-BUILT MAN WITH BEARD, AWE-INSPIRING
FACE AND SHARP GAZE
• HE HAD TREMENDOUS PATIENCE, POISE AND
PERSEVERANCE
• APART FROM BEING A BRAVE WARRIOR, HE WAS
AN ASTUTE STATESMAN
• HISTORICAL PAPERS UNDER HIS HAND ARE
TESTIMONY TO CLARITY OF THOUGHT-PROCESS
CAMPAIGN
• KANHOJI ANGRE or SARKHEL ANGRE (SARKHEL IS A TITLE EQUAL TO
ADMIRAL OF A FLEET) (August 1669 – 4 July 1729)
• FIRST NOTABLE CHIEF OF THE MARATHA NAVY IN 18TH CENTURY
INDIA
• HE FOUGHT AGAINST THE BRITISH, DUTCH AND PORTUGUESE
NAVAL INTERESTS ON THE COASTS OF INDIA DURING THE 18TH
CENTURY.
• AS A RESULT, HIS EUROPEAN ENEMIES LABELED HIM A PIRATE.
• DESPITE THE ATTEMPTS OF THE BRITISH AND PORTUGUESE TO
SUBDUE ANGRE, HE REMAINED UNDEFEATED UNTIL HIS DEATH
• HE WAS ORIGINALLY APPOINTED AS SURKHEL OR DARYASARANGA (ADMIRAL) BY THE CHIEF OF SATARA IN 1698.
• HE WAS MASTER OF THE WESTERN COAST OF INDIA FROM
MUMBAI TO VINGORIA (NOW VENGURLA) IN PRESENT-DAY STATE
OF MAHARASHTRA
• KANHOJI STARTED HIS LONG HISTORY OF