Outside the area, the term Maratha loosely identifies people who speak Marathi. |
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What better way to round off the celebrations than with a Maratha pageant to capture the valour of the great Marathas! |
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A throbbing, cosmopolitan metropolis, it still retains the glory of the past, the colonial legacy that coexists with the Maratha influence. |
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Disliking the Anglicized system of government there, he sought to preserve the good in Maratha institutions and to make allowance for Maratha sentiment. |
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The marches bring together various Maratha factions. |
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In 1683 a Mughal army saved it from capture by Maratha raiders, and in 1739 the whole territory was again attacked by the Marathas and was saved only by the unexpected arrival of a new Portuguese viceroy with a fleet. |
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In the seventeenth century, the Maratha empire took control of the central regions, until the British influence expanded into the hinterland during the nineteenth century. |
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In addition the Maratha Confederation, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, Naples and the Duchy of Warsaw each had more than 100,000 men under arms. |
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After crossing the ford the infantry was reorganised into several lines and advanced against the Maratha infantry. |
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Wellesley ordered his cavalry to exploit the flank of the Maratha army just near the village. |
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Despite the damage done to the Maratha army, the battle did not end the war. |
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In the 18th century, the famous Maratha privateer Kanhoji Angre ruled the seas between Mumbai and Goa. |
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In 1737, the Maratha general Bajirao of the Maratha Empire invaded and plundered Delhi. |
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Under the general Amir Khan Umrao Al Udat, the Mughal Emperor sent 8,000 troops to drive away the 5,000 Maratha cavalry soldiers. |
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The early 18th century saw the rise of Maratha suzerainty over the Indian subcontinent. |
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Under the Peshwas, the Maratha Empire consolidated and ruled over much of South Asia. |
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More than the Moghuls, Shivaji faced stiff opposition from those belonging to the Maratha community. |
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The Mughal empire, which was descended from the Mongol Khanate, was bested by the upcoming Maratha Confederacy. |
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The Indian peninsula in 1760, three years after the Battle of Plassey, showing the Maratha Empire and other prominent political states. |
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Gordon explained how the Maratha systematically took control over new regions. |
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For a brief period, the Maratha Navy also established its base at the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. |
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The important forests products are bamboo canes, Maratha barks, chillar barks and the bhirand. |
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The Maratha group of castes is a largely rural class of peasant cultivators, landowners, and soldiers. |
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A number of Maratha warriors, including Shivaji's father, Shahaji, originally served in those armies. |
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By 19th century, the term Maratha had several interpretations in the British administrative records. |
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The state has had many Maratha government ministers and officials, as well as in local municipal commissions, and panchayats. |
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He previously coached junior India team, Mumbai and Maharastra state teams as well as the Maratha Warriors in the Hockey India League. |
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This work covers the ensuing 111 years to the 1818 annexation of the Maratha territories by the British East India Company. |
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The Maratha kingdom was founded and consolidated by Chatrapati Shivaji, a Maratha aristocrat of the Bhonsle clan who was determined to establish Hindavi Swarajya. |
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He may very well be regarded as the second founder of the Maratha Empire. |
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Gradually, the term Maratha came to denote an endogamous caste. |
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Notable Maratha families outside Maharashtra include Bhonsle of Tanjore,Scindia of Gwalior, Gaekwad of Baroda, Holkar of Indore, Puar of Dewas and Dhar, Ghorpade of Mudhol. |
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In 1761, the Maratha army lost the Third Battle of Panipat which halted imperial expansion and the empire was then divided into a confederacy of Maratha states. |
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The Maratha Empire would in 1818 fall under the control of the British East India Company, with all former Maratha and Mughal authority devolving in 1858 to the British Raj. |
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The rise of the Hindu Nationalist Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party in recent years have not dented Maratha representation in Maharashtra Legislative assembly. |
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When he determined that a long defensive war would ruin his army, Wellesley decided to act boldly to defeat the numerically larger force of the Maratha Empire. |
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The victims were from the villages of Santalaris, Maratha, and Aloda, inhabited entirely by Turkish Cypriots, which were located next to each other in the Famagusta district. |
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