Originally posted by: Shake_d_spear
R u sure baji & kashi ki lovestory nhi hai ? Or kashibai ke baare mein show karne ke liye kuch nhi ? Ya I agree mirch masala wala kuch nhi hai but vo to Rana Pratap - ajabde , shivaji - saibai, rama-madhav ki stories mein bhi nhi hai still unki stories proper tareeke se show hoti hai lekin sirf Bajirao ko majnu show karte hai.
Bajirao - kashibaib story hide ho gayi Bajirao mastani ki fake lovestory ke overglorification or over hype se.
Yes Bajirao main priority was expansion of swarajya but still he loved his wife very much . It never changed after mastani's arrival also . Bajirao was a character of high morale he was extremely handsome & use to get many marriage proposals but he used to keep rejecting it. In 1724 he got a marriage proposal of rajput princess Indira Kumari but he rejected it.
Mastani's beauty is overhyped to glorify lovestory but kashibai was not less in beauty . It's mentioned in official records kashibai , ramabai , anandibai were most beautiful women in peshwai . Konkansth chitpavan Brahmin clan I'd one of d most beautiful clan of Maharashtrians , acc to one study they r considered descendents of Jews from Konkan region who had fair complexion & light eyes. Fake lovestory portray kashibai as physically handicapped person but she was never handicapped she only had ligament problem in right ankle which used to pain in winters varna she can walk properly . Bajirao brought oils from nizam's hakims & from south , she only got bedridden in her old age 2 or 3 yrs before her death .
During Bajirao tenure period 2700 - 3000 letters likhe gaye the both political & personal which r available in Peshwa daftar. Bajirao used to continuously write to kashibai from all of his military expenditions one can see love & fondness b/w them in those letters but Bajirao never wrote a single letter to mastani ever.
Bajirao had taken kashibai thrice with him to his military expenditions , he went with kashibai to rajputana tour 2 , he never took mastani to any of his military expenditions. He used to take kashibai with him to Satara always as royal family & ladies were find of kashibai.
Mastani mahal got overhyped it was a single storey building but Bajirao build a huge double storey house for kashibai in Shaniwar wada never got any hyped , Bajirao used to live with kashibai in same house.
Raghunath rao birth happened in mahuli as kashibai wanted to give birth in a holi place so she wanted to stay in a math but Bajirao built a house for her in mahuli just for her stay in mahuli never get any mention.
Soon after raghunath rao birth Bajirao took kashibai with him to ravarkhedi where just for her wish he build rameshwar mahadev mandir which still stand tall near his samadhi it was referred as peshwin bai temple by maratha army . Both stayed 3-4 months there till mandir was completed gets no hype .
Bajirao kashibai had 5 kids jisme se 3 mastani ke aane ke baad hue hai but only nanasaheb & raghunath Rao r shown.
Dec 1721 - nanasaheb
1723 - Ramachandra but he died in 1732
1733 - another male child who died within one week.
1734 - raghunath rao
1735 - Janardhan rao he did last rights of Bajirao sadly he died in 1749.
Kashi bai did brought up sadashivbhau rao , Shamsher Bahadur , bayabai chimaji's daughter also.
Kashibai was not active in politics but she was fav peshwinbai , people used to bring their complains to her , she used to look after peshwai when men of d family were out on war , she was responsible for day to day business in Pune. She used to do charity a lot , she funded one whole village which was washed out in flood, she used to get poor girls married etc.
Bajirao - kashibai ke baare mein bahut kuch hai lekin uske liye histor read karni padegi lekin , tv serials & movie makers don't have guts to show Bajirao's real story kyunki usme mastani ka koi role hai hi nahi.
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