How Shivaji Maharaj defeated the British economically?

A trade war is a situation where countries try to damage each others trade by creating economical blockages. It needs no telling that Finance and economics are the foundations on which a nation is built and so when you can inflict economical losses on the enemy nation, more damage can be achieved than actual war.
It was the power of trade on which Europeans dominated the political and military power in the world in the medieval period.
Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj had understood it early that the europeans and the britishers are not here in India just for trade but they have the ambition to rule over India. And hence he had set out to destroy the british by any means available, be it economically or militarily..
It was one of the reason he had established navy on the west coast..
An incident happened in the late 1670s when Shivaji Maharaj inflicted an economic loss on the British east India company by simply exploiting loopholes in their systems. This story is recorded in English documents itself - the English factory records on Shivaji Maharaj.
English factory records on Shivaji Maharaj :- ia601506.us.ar...
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