Destabilization of Deccan and the power vacuum gave rise to a Marhata uprising in Maharashtra under the leadership of Shivaji Bhonsle (1627–1680 AD). Rajputs of Jodh and Mewar and Sikhs of Punjab also rose to oppose Aurangzeb. Shivaji was a religious man like Aurangzeb, and in 1674 AD, he crowned himself Chatrapati in a traditional Hindu Coronation at Rajgarh.Stanley Wolpert, "A New History of India", pp. 163–166, Oxford University Press, (2004). In 1689, Shivaji's son and the new Chatrapati Sambhaji was captured by Aurangzeb and tortured to death. The account of his death made the Maratha opposition fiercer. As a King, he spent 27 years conquering and establishing his rule in Deccan, a long war that drained the Mughal Empire of resources and started its decline.
