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âRoots are important for the unnamed. Named ones have roots spread across the universe.â
-Alex Haley, âRootsâ
âThackeray does not know history. Shivajiâs forefather Belliyappa was from Soratur in Gadag district in Karnataka. When there was drought in Gadag, Belliyappa left for Maharashtra. Shivaji was the fourth generation of the family. Thackeray should remember that Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, whom the Shiv Sena perceives as its icon and named its party after him, was a Kannadiga,â Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Govind Karjol told reporters recently.
Before getting into a rather silly debate over Shivajiâs provincial identity, it would be advisable to mention the roots of the French statesman and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, to contextualise this new political row over Shivajiâs belonging. When Napoleon was born in Corsica, the Mediterranean island to the north of Sardinia