[186] At the end of the 19th century, Shivaji's memory was leveraged with the non-Brahmin intellectuals of Bombay, who determined as his descendants and thru him claimed the kshatriya varna. While some Brahmins rebutted this identification, defining them as on the reduced shudra varna, other Brahmins recognised the Marathas' https://simonlwhll.blogsmine.com/17122021/detailed-notes-on-lor-shivs