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2 days ago · The Maratha Confederacy, [a] also referred to as the Maratha Empire, [10] [11] [12] was an early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent. It comprised the realms of the Peshwa and four major independent Maratha states [ 13 ] [ 14 ] often subordinate to the former.
3 days ago · There is no doubt that the single most important power to emerge in the long twilight of the Mughal dynasty was the Maratha confederacy. Initially deriving from the western Deccan, the Marathas were a peasant warrior group that rose to prominence during the rule in that region of the sultans of Bijapur and Ahmadnagar.
3 days ago · Shivaji carved out his own independent kingdom from the Sultanate of Bijapur that formed the genesis of the Maratha Confederacy. In 1674, he was formally crowned the Chhatrapati of his realm at Raigad Fort .
3 days ago · Baji Rao I, peshwa, or chief minister, of the Maratha confederacy (1720–40). His conquests were one of several contributors to the decay of the Mughal Empire. He was the first peshwa to take over the post hereditarily, and he significantly expanded the power and influence of the peshwa.
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1 day ago · During the 18th century almost all of western and central India, as well as large segments of the north and east, was brought under the suzerainty of the Maratha confederacy, an alliance formed after Shivaji’s kingdom had collapsed. Europeans, however, had been present along the coast since the early 16th century.
4 days ago · The Maratha Confederacy was expanded by many Marathi chieftains including Peshwa Bajirao Ballal I and his descendants, the Shindes, Gaekwad, Pawar, Bhonsale of Nagpur, and the Holkars. The Confederacy at its peak stretched from northern Karnataka in the south to Peshawar (modern-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ) briefly during the Maratha–Afghan War ...
2 days ago · In September 1803, the forces of the British East India Company defeated a Maratha army and entered Shahjahanabad. The Hindu Maratha Confederacy had spent most of the last century as the biggest power in northern India, but officially they were, like most of the other states they conquered, still vassals of the Mughal Emperor.
