Editing Decapitation (section)

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The British officer [[John Masters]] recorded in his autobiography that [[Pashtun people|Pathans]] in British India during the [[Anglo-Afghan War]]s would behead enemy soldiers who were captured, such as British and Sikh soldiers.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NhdbAAAAMAAJ |title=Bugles and a tiger: a volume of autobiography |first=John |last=Masters |year=1956 |publisher=Viking Press |page=190 |isbn=978-0-670-19450-6 |access-date=2 August 2020 |archive-date=8 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608031630/https://books.google.com/books?id=NhdbAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ln_jAAAAMAAJ |title=The Frontier Ablaze: The North-west Frontier Rising, 1897–98 |first1=Michael |last1=Barthorp |first2=Douglas N. |last2=Anderson |year=1996 |publisher=Windrow & Greene |isbn=978-1-85915-023-8 |page=12 |access-date=23 March 2016 |archive-date=8 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608031549/https://books.google.com/books?id=ln_jAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oRdbAAAAMAAJ |title=John Masters: a regimented life |first=John |last=Clay |year=1992 |publisher=Michael Joseph |location=[[University of Michigan]] |isbn=978-0-7181-2945-3 |page=62 |access-date=2 August 2020 |archive-date=8 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608031550/https://books.google.com/books?id=oRdbAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Bugles and a Tiger |first=John |last=Masters |date=2002 |publisher=Cassell Military |isbn=978-0-304-36156-4 |page=190}}</ref>

The [[Execution of Sambhaji]] was a significant event in 17th-century [[Deccan Plateau|Deccan]] India, where the second [[Maratha Empire|Maratha]] King was put to death by order of the [[List of emperors of the Mughal Empire|Mughal emperor]] [[Aurangzeb]]. The conflicts between the [[Mughal Empire|Mughals]] and the [[Deccan sultanates|Deccan Sultanates]], which resulted in the downfall of the Sultanates, paved the way for tensions between the Marathas and the Mughals. Aurangzeb was drawn to Southern India due to the vanquished rebel [[Muhammad Akbar (Mughal prince)|Akbar]] fleeing to the Maratha monarch, [[Sambhaji]]. The Maratha King was then captured by the Mughal general [[Muqarrab Khan]]. Sambhaji and his minister [[Kavi Kalash]] were then taken to [[Tulapur]], where they were tortured to death.