Senior journalist and author Vaibhav Purandare`s just-released biography of the warrior king, Shivaji: India`s Great Warrior King (Juggernaut Books), digs deep into varied accounts by scholars and biographers alike, to tell the tale of a self-made military hero who crowned himself king, igniting Maratha pride and consciousness. A new biography on the 17th-century Maratha warrior king dips into Marathi accounts by eyewitness chroniclers, previously ignored by historians, to create the portrait of a man whose rebellious streak continues to influence Maharashtra politics