escaped and lived to fight another day - he recaptured the conceded forces built a kingdom. Aurangzeb came to Maharashtra after Shivaji's death and tried for 27 years to control the state. No chance. He died a broken man, the Moghal empire was finished and for the first time since Prithviraj Chauhan, Peshwa Bajirao I marched into Delhi with the Maratha(Hindu) army in 1737.