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'{{Short description|Clan in Maharashtra, India}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}} {{Use Indian English|date=May 2022}} The '''Shirke''' is a [[Maratha clan]], found largely in [[Maharashtra]] and bordering states of India. ==History== The Shirke clan held [[Deshmukh]]i rights in the areas of coastal [[Konkan]] in present day state of [[Maharashtra]] and some inland areas of Western Maharashtra during 15th century under the [[Bahamani Sultanate]] and in 16th and 17th century under the successor [[Deccan sultanates]] of [[Adilshahi]] and [[Nizamshahi]]<ref name="jstor.org">{{cite journal|last1=Kulkarni|first1=G.T.|title=Deccan (Maharashtra) Under the Muslim Rulers From Khaljis to Shivaji: A Study in Interaction, Profesor S.M. Katre Felicitation|journal=Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute|date=1992|volume=51/52|pages=501–510|jstor=42930434}}</ref> During the Bahamani era, the seat of Shirke fief was at Khelna (Vishalgad).<ref name="Ali1996">{{cite book|author=Shanti Sadiq Ali|title=The African Dispersal in the Deccan: From Medieval to Modern Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-3CPc22nMqIC&pg=PR9|year=1996|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-0485-1|pages=45–46}}</ref> The Shirkes intermarried with the [[Surve]]s and kept command over their regions. In the mid 17th century, [[Shivaji]], the founder of [[Maratha empire]] got the Surve and Shirke to join him by force or by forming marital alliances.{{fact|date=October 2022}} The Shirkes were relatives of 17th Bhosale rulers, [[Shahaji]], [[Shivaji]], [[Sambhaji]], and [[Rajaram Chhatrapati|Rajaram]].Although Sambhaji's wife came from the Shirke family, his positions were spied upon. Sambhaji and 25 of his advisors were captured by the Mughal forces of [[Muqarrab Khan]] in a skirmish at [[Sangameshwar]] in February 1689.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d1wUgKKzawoC|title=Advanced Study in the History of Modern India 1707-1813|last=Mehta|first=Jaswant Lal|date=2005-01-01|publisher=Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd|isbn=9781932705546|language=en}}</ref> The Shirke were relations and confidantes of the Raja Pratapsinha of the short lived [[Satara state]]. He also sent a member of the Shirke family to London to plead his case of restoring him to power in 1839.<ref name="Kulkarni1995">{{cite book|author=Sumitra Kulkarni|title=The Satara Raj, 1818-1848: A Study in History, Administration, and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SYOSHaZnBy8C&pg=PP15|year=1995|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-7099-581-4|pages=25, 33}}</ref> == See also == * [[Maratha]] * [[Maratha Empire]] * [[Maratha clan system]] * [[List of Maratha dynasties and states]] * [[Bhonsle]] * [[Gaekwad]] * [[Scindia]] * [[Puars]] * [[Holkar]] * [[Peshwa]] == References == {{Reflist}} === Further reading === * {{cite book|author=S.R. Bakshi|title=Advanced history of medieval India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gDjzm-hdzq0C&pg=PA391|accessdate=20 May 2011|date=1 January 2003|publisher=Anmol Publications PVT. LTD.|isbn=978-81-7488-028-4|pages=391–}} [[Category:Maratha clans]] [[Category:Surnames]]'