Mahadaji Shinde's Rajwada Jamgaon Fort

 museum, interesting place

Shrinath Mahadji Shinde
s/o Srimant Ranojeerao Shinde (Patil of Kanherkhed)
Madhava Rao, or ' Madhoji,' Shinde (now called as SCINDIA) has been described, on good authority, as 'a statesman and soldier of almost unsurpassed ability' (7m^. Gazetteer of India, v. 230). He rose to rule in Hindustan without altogether losing touch with the distant and difficult politics of the Maratha State. Like other unusually successful men, he was partly the child of his time and partly its creator. Ordinary average success is often produced by the qualities of the commoner class, such as docility and power of adapta- tion ; but this man's was another, and a fairer kind of success. He changed the habits of men, gave a new direction to their thoughts, and prepared a social revolution. He did so because his aims were clear and reasonable, definitely conceived and resolutely pursued, without ignoring the continuity of human interests.