Arrange the following events in chronological order:
(i) Shivaji plundered Surat, the major Mughal port on the Arabian Sea
(ii) Third Panipat war was fought between the Marathas and the Afghans
(iii) Shivaji captured Kondana a fort near Pune
(iv) Aurangzeb arrived in the Deccan
(A) (i), (iii), (iv), (ii)
(B) (ii), (iii), (i), (iv)
(C) (i), (iv), (ii), (iii)
(D) (iii), (i), (iv), (ii)
Answer: A
According to historian James Grant Duff, Surat was attacked by Shivaji on 5 January 1664; the attack was so sudden that the population had no chance to flee; the violent plunder of the Maratha forces continued for six days & two-thirds of the city was burnt down.
The Third Battle of Panipat took place on 14 January 1761, at Panipat, a northern expeditionary force of the Maratha Empire and a coalition of the King of Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Durrani with two Indian Muslim allies—the Rohilla Afghans of the Doab, and Shuja-ud-Daula.
The Battle of Sinhagad, also known as Battle of Kondhana, involved an attack by Marathas during the night of 4 February 1670 on the Mughal fort of Sinhagad (then Kondhana), near the city of Pune, Maharashtra. The Marathas captured the fort.
In 1681, Aurangzeb came to Deccan. Two years after Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj died; Aurangzeb himself arrived in the Deccan. It had been his lifelong dream to extend the Mughal Empire deep into the south, by finishing off the kingdoms of the Deccan.
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