But soon, Shahaji with the assistance of Bijapur, placed an infant scion of the Nizam Shahi dynasty, Murtaza on the throne and he became the regent.
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Lakhuji Jadhav (lived in the 16th century), a Nizam Shahi jagirdar, father-in-law of Shahaji, maternal grandfather of Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire in India
Murtaza Shah III, was a Nizam Shahi boy prince who in the year 1635 became the nominal Sultan of Ahmadnagar, he was subjected to the authority of the Maratha leader Shahaji.