Maratha Navy
Chhatrapati shivaji maharaj is the founder of indian navy.they organised navy in mid 17th century in india. Muslim leader had not interested to built their navy before,because they had won decissively in land battle at the north side,therefore ingnor the built the navy. When portugiz had came into the india and started the trade with western coastle,slowly slowly they controll this coastle region.portugiz had their own navy thats why it controll the western coastle region area. Chhatrapati shivaji maharaj realize the importance of navy,he took a plan he was contruct the ships near to kalyan with the help of portugiz.in that time portugiz had good technology to built naval ships.Chhatrapati shivaji maharaj was construct the naval bases on the various coastle region in maharashtra.their navy was devided into the two flits ,one is under the command of admiral daulat khan and other was under the admiral mainak bhandari.in this navy there wad mostly konkani sailor was present,because of th