Siege of janjira

Siege na Janjira wani yaƙin neman zaɓe ne wanda ƙungiyar Maratha Confederacy, wanda Sambhaji, shugaban Maratha na biyu ya jagoranta, a kan Siddis na Janjira a watan Janairun shekarar alif 1682. Sojojin Maratha, karkashin jagorancin Sambhaji, sun janye daga Janjira zuwa yankin Konkan don mayar da martani. Mughal ya kai hari, inda ya bar wani tawaga a baya karkashin umarnin Dadaji Raghunath Deshpande. Duk da kokarin da suka yi, Maratha sun kasa kwace sansanin, kuma Siddis sun bi sojojin da suka ja da baya, suna kwace yankunan Maratha.

Bayan fage
Duba kuma: Shivaji ya mamaye Janjira

Babban sansanin Janjira
Siddis, musulman Afirka, asalinsu daga Abyssinia, waɗanda aka fi sani da Musulman Abyssiniya, sun isa Indiya ta hanyar cinikin bayi, a matsayin ’yan kasuwa, ko kuma ta hanyar zama don neman abin rayuwarsu. Sun kafa matsuguni a gabar tekun Malabar na Indiya kuma a hankali suka rikide zuwa rundunar sojan ruwa, tare da babban sansaninsu a Janjira, wanda aka kwatanta da "kayan katangar teku da ba za a iya samun ciki ba." Sarkin Musulmi Ahmadnagar ya kwace tsibirin Janjira a shekara ta 1498. Siddis sun yi masa mubaya'a, sannan aka nada shugabansu na yankin, wanda aka fi sani da Siddi bisa lakabinsa na gargajiya, a matsayin Gwamnan Janjira a madadin jihar Ahmadnagar. Wannan nadin ya ba da tabbaci na shari'a ga matsayinsu na gadon sarauta na yankin Janjira. A cikin 1636, a lokacin Siddi Ambar na gwamnan Janjira, Mughals sun ci Ahmednagar daga ƙarshe, kuma yankin Ahmednagar Konkan ya bar yankin Bijapur Subah na daular Mughal.

Dagewa
A farkon watan Janairu shekara ta alif1682, aka aika Dadaji Raghunath Deshpande, Janar na Maratha, zuwa Janjira, babban birnin Siddis. Sambhaji ya yi alkawarin nada shi a matsayin daya daga cikin Pradhan guda takwas na daular Maratha idan ya samu nasarar kawanya tare da kwace sansanin Janjira. A cikin kwanaki na ƙarshe na Disamba 1681, Durga Das Rathore, Rajput Janar na Marwar, da Yarima Akbar, ɗan Aurangzeb wanda ya yi tawaye ga Mughals, suka kulla kawance da Sambhaji a kan Siddis. Sun yi taro da sojojin Raghunath Deshpande a Rajpuri, inda suka kawo wata runduna ta mutum 20,000.

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