[186] At the conclusion of the nineteenth century, Shivaji's memory was leveraged by the non-Brahmin intellectuals of Bombay, who identified as his descendants and thru him claimed the kshatriya varna. While some Brahmins rebutted this id, defining them as from the reduce shudra varna, other Brahmins recognised the Marathas' https://shivaimages42812.bloggosite.com/20108975/lor-shivs-fundamentals-explained