Are you kidding! It is well documented and people are fully aware of: When Shivaji was born that time his father used to work for Nizam and/or Adil Sha Armies. Great Shivaji Raje while growing up, self made him self and his followers free from the sultans and Mughals and he established swaraj in western Maharashtra region and earned the title "Raje". This was the dream of his father to set his heirs free and the dream of his mother to see his son as Raje, Because their forefathers were originally kings and enjoyed freedom, which was taken away by the invaders in between 1100 to 1600. This is not a propaganda, it is a complete truth.

"The Bhonsle clan, to which the Maratha empire's founder Shivaji belonged, also claimed descent from a branch of the royal Sisodia family. Nainsi in his book mentioned Shahji descended from Chacha, son of Rana Lakha. According to the Sisodia Chronicles, when the Delhi Sultan Alauddin Khalji attacked Chittorgarh in 1303, the Sisodia men performed Saka (fighting to the death), while their women committed Jauhar (self-immolation in preference to becoming enemy captives). This was repeated twice: when Bahadur Shah of Gujarat besieged Chittorgarh in 1535, and when the Mughal emperor Akbar conquered it in 1567."