BHADRAKALI TARARANI`... A LUMINOUS SPARK FROM THE MOHITE-BHOSLE LINEAGE... THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW OF CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI MAHARAJ... A WARRIOR QUEEN WHO SWALLOWED THE GRIEF OF WIDOWHOOD AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-FIVE AND ROSE TO PROTECT SWARAJYA... A HEROINE WHO STOOD TALL AGAINST MIGHTY ENEMIES LIKE THE MUGHALS AND THE CRUEL AURANGZEB... A SHREWD STATESWOMAN WHO MADE ASTUTE DECISIONS ON THE BATTLEFIELD AND IN GOVERNANCE... A RESOLUTE WOMAN WHO PRESERVED HER IDENTITY AND SELF-RESPECT, EVEN ENDURING IMPRISONMENT RATHER THAN YIELDING TO SHAHU MAHARAJ’S TEMPTATIONS... A COURAGEOUS SOUL WHO BORE THE ANGUISH OF HER SON`S DEATH, KEPT HER GRANDSON IN EXILE, AND PLACED HIM ON CHHATRAPATI’S THRONE WHEN THE RIGHT MOMENT ARRIVED... A POLITICAL TACTICIAN WHO HELD HER OWN AGAINST NANASAHEB PESHWA. THIS GLORIOUS SAGA OF TARARANI’S VALOR IS UNRAVELED FROM THE PAGES OF HISTORY BY SUVARNA NAIK NIMBALKAR.