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Moropant Trimbak Pingle

Peshwa of the Maratha Empire from 1674 to 1683

Field	Value
name	Moropant Trimbak Pingale
honorific_prefix	Shrimant Peshwa
office	[[File:Flag of the Maratha Empire.svg	33x30px]] 1st Peshwa of the Marathas
blank1	House
data1	Pingale
caption	Srimant Moropant Pingale first Peshwa of Maratha Empire
term	6 June 1674–1683
monarch	Shivaji, Sambhaji
predecessor	Position established
successor	Moreshvar Pingale
children	{{plainlist
father	Trimbak Pingale
birth_date
birth_place	Nimgaon
death_date	1683
death_place	Raigad Fort, Raigad, Maratha Empire (present-day Maharashtra, India)
battles	* Battle of Pratapgarh

Nilakanth Moreshvar Pingale (son)
Bahiroji Pingale (son)}}
Battle of Salher Moropant Trimbak Pingale (1620–1683), was a Maratha military commander who also served as the first Peshwa of the Maratha Empire during the reign of Chhatrapati Shivaji as a member of Ashta Pradhan (Council of Eight Ministers).

Early life

Moropant Trimbak Pingle was born to a Deshastha Brahmin family in 1620 Nimgaon. In 1647, he joined Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in establishing the Maratha Empire.

Military career

He was one of the warriors who participated in the successful 1659 battle of Shivaji Maharaj's forces against the forces of Bijapur's Adil Shah which immediately followed Adil Shah's general Afzalkhān's death at Jāwali. He also participated in the battles at Trimbakeshwar Fort and Wāni-Dindori against the Mughal Empire. He participated in Shivaji's invasion of Surat in 1664. He also participated in the Battle of Salher. Moropant surrounded and attacked the 25,000 strong Mughal infantry at Salher with his 20,000 infantry. Prominent Maratha Sardar and Shivaji's childhood friend Suryaji Kakde was killed by a Zamburak cannon in the battle. Chhatrapati Sambhaji son of Shivaji stayed with Moropant's relatives in Mathura after their escape from Agra.. Moropant introduced sound revenue administration to Shivaji's regime, and played an important role in resource planning concerning defenses and maintenance of strategic forts. He was also responsible for the construction and administration of Pratapgad. At Chhatrapati Shivaji's death, Moropant Pingale was working as a supervisor of fort development activities in Nashik District for the Salher-Mulher forts. Under Shivaji Maharaj's successor, Chhatrapati Sambhaji, he also participated in the battle of Burhanpur in 1681 which resulted in the sacking of the important Mughal trade centre of Burhanpur. He was killed during an ambush by Mughal forces in 1683.

References

81-7755-286-4, {{ISBN. 978-81-7755-286-7
[https://books.google.com/books?id=iF8MAAAAIAAJ Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and the Maratha Art of War By Murlidhar Balkrishna Deopujari, Page 254]

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