Sita Ram Goel's Hindi classic "Shaktiputra Shivaji" is highly underrated. Its introduction is a masterpiece that rips apart Jawaharlal Nehru's pretence of being a historian.
In this episode of Amatya Ramachandra Pant's Ajnapatra, we observe the incredibly humane principles that guided the great Hindu Kingdom of Chhatrapati Shivaji and his descendants. This must be made prescribed reading especially to our bureaucrats today.
In the second episode of the Ajnapatra, Ramachandra Pant gives us a highly inspirational and first hand narrative of how Shivaji created a Hindu Empire from the scratch
Amatya Ramachandra Pant, Shivaji's Finance Minister authored an extraordinary Ajnapatra or Royal Edict giving guidance to Sambhaji II. It is also the primary source giving us superb, first hand details of the India of that period.
The pre-Independence Gujarati Poet Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi wrote a highly inspirational and moving tribute to Chhatrapati Shivaji on the occasion of his tricentennial celebrations.