Taking his mentor’s cue, Congress leader Jawaharlal Nehru in his ‘Glimpses of World History’ (4)

dismisses Shivaji’s epic life as a “predatory career”. In contrast, while talking about Islamic invaders,
Nehru goes full-tilt secular. In the same book, he describes the barbaric Mahmud Ghazni in the
following words: “He was a brilliant general and a fine cavalry leader.”