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Ramchandra Pant Amatya

1650–1716 · 17th century

Ramchandra Pant Amatya was a Maratha statesman who served Shivaji and his successors as a minister. During the war with Aurangzeb in the 1690s, while Rajaram was besieged at Jinji, he directed the defence of the Maratha homeland. He wrote the Adnyapatra, a treatise on statecraft. His descendants held the hereditary title of Amatya and the estate of Bavda.

Ramchandra Pant Amatya
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Bavda State

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