MARATHAS

or Mahrattasboth: mərătˈəz, məräˈtəz, Marathi-speaking people of W central India, known for their ability as warriors and their devotion to Hinduism. From their homeland in Maharashtra their chieftains rose to power in the 17th cent. The Marathas helped bring about the fall of the Mughal empire and were the most determined rivals to British supremacy in India. Under the leadership of Sivaji, power was extended throughout the Deccan and much of S India. By the mid-18th cent. the Marathas, with their capital at Pune, were the leading power in India, but their domain soon split into several territories. In the early 18th cent. power passed to a succession of Brahmans who had been serving as peshwas (prime ministers) to the weaker descendants of Sivaji. Great Britain waged several wars with the Marathas, finally subduing them in 1818. The major states of the Maratha confederation included Baroda, Gwalior, and Indore. During the nationalist period, Marathas played a leading part.

See J. G. Duff, History of the Mahrattas (rev. ed. 1921, repr. 1971); Rao Bahadur G. S. Sardesai, New History of the Marathas (3 vol., 1957, repr. 1986); M. G. Ranade, Rise of the Maratha Power (1962); R. Kumar, Western India in the Nineteenth Century (1968).

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...Medieval India 23 PART TWO 3 The Marathas at Panipat 51 4 Colonial Warfare...the Rajputs in northern India and the Marathas in the west. Aurungzebs reign was marked...fine art. Shivaji and the Rise of the Marathas When the western Chalukya kingdom split...
...the differences in landed wealth between major Marathas, minor Marathas, and other peasant castes, as of about 1920...standard acres. 2 The average holding of major Marathas was much greater than that of minor Marathas or...
...India. After Tipus destruction the Marathas remained. When they were finally beaten...1 II. THE MARATHAS 5...1 To the testimony of the Marathas outstanding importance, which I cite...
...Aurangzibs failur against the Marathas 445...473 The Marathas in Northern India 474...Wellesley and the Marathas 604...
...concept, in the sense that they are held together not only by a blood relationship but by attachment to a particular region. The Marathas of western India are the leading example of this type. Then there are the castes formed by migration. When this occurred...
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...Mobile raids of Moghul territory by the Marathas in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth...characteristic of the method of warfare that the Marathas had evolved in their home provinces...price. Moghuls in the Sahyadris the Marathas drew forces from the local peasantry...
...tillers of the soil" (Kurmis, Jats, Kunbi-Marathas, etc.), the artisan and service castes...guest" cultivators, between Shahhanavkuli Marathas and Kunbis, between Reddis and Kapus...of the shudra -status kisan castes (Marathas including those who were former low...
...Cambridge History of India. Vol. 2:4, The Marathas, 1600-1818. New Delhi: Cambridge University...capable and charismatic leader" of the Marathas, a martial Hindu group that challenged...of some Rajput chiefs, who, like the Marathas, were restive under Aurangzebs increasingly...
...Nawab of Oudh, against the militant Hindu Marathas, agreeing to pay him forty lakh rupees for protection. In 1773, predictably the Marathas threatened again but retreated when they...unhappy with the growing power of the Hindu Marathas. Aligning with the Nawab served three...
...independent kingdom, a tributary of the Marathas, a tributary of the Mughals, a tributary...and was increasingly directed at the Marathas, who were pressing down from the north...century after it was caught between the Marathas and Haidar All of Mysore in their struggle...
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...for a Muslim homeland. Resistance to decadent Mughal rulers, Marathas, Afghans, Sikhs and, finally, the British brought freedom though...exploitation of the land and its people and the alienation of the Marathas and Rajputs which finally brought about the disintegration...
...that would characterize the next twenty years of his military career, resulting in the costly, but dazzling victory over the Marathas at Assaye, followed by further wins at Argaum and Gawlighur that crushed most resistance in British India. In less than a decade...
...could always enlist allies. Thus the Maratha princes helped them to crush the formidable Mysore of Tipu Sultan. Later on the Marathas themselves were deeply divided and did not act together against the British. In the desperate fighting that brought the Punjab...
...the commander responsible for British military operations in India, ordered that any French officer training local Indians (Marathas to be specific) could receive safe conduct and free passage back to Europe. In this fashion Wellesley hoped to sustain the...
...combined with British triumphs in India -- the fall of the Mysore capital Seringapatam in 1799 and Wellingtons victories over the Marathas at Assaye and Argaum in 1803 -- the picture is of a nation resolute, resourceful and finally triumphant. No such comforting...
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...principal reason for heading south was to visit an army base. We couldnt resist the polite invitation from the commander of the Marathas, Indias most famous light infantry regiment. Jillys father had served as a junior officer during the Second World War and hed...


 

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MARATHAS or Mahrattas both: m rat z, m ra t z, Marathi-speaking...their chieftains rose to power in the 17th cent. The Marathas helped bring about the fall of the Mughal empire and...Deccan and much of S India. By the mid-18th cent. the Marathas, with their capital at Pune , were the leading power...
MAHRATTAS see Marathas . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
SIVAJI or Shivaji shiva je, 1627 80, Indian ruler, leader of the Marathas . The son of a Maratha chieftain, he was imbued from early childhood with hatred of the Mughal empire, which controlled most of...
...the Indian Mutiny , his real name was Dhundu Pant. The adopted son of the last peshwa (hereditary prime minister) of the Marathas, his request (1853) to the British to grant him the peshwas title and pension was refused. In the outbreak (June, 1857) of...
...Indian ruler, sultan of Mysore (1782 99); son and successor of Haidar Ali . He fought in his fathers campaigns against the Marathas and the British but, after his succession, made peace with the British in 1784. His invasion (1789) of Travancore, a state...
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