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Maharaja [a] (also spelled Maharajah or Maharaj; lit. ' great ruler ' ; feminine: Maharani ) [ 2 ] is an Indian princely title of Sanskrit origin. In modern India and medieval northern India , the title was equivalent to a prince .
Maraj, Maharaj, Maharajh, Maragh, or Maharagh is a Hindu Indian surname derived from the Sanskrit word Maharaja meaning "great leader", "great ruler", or "great king". ". Originally used as an honorific suffix to a Hindu priest's name, it became the surname of many Hindu priests who immigrated to different European colonies during the Indian indenture system and their descendants because when ...
Shahu (also known as Chhatrapati Rajarshi Shahu, Shahu IV, Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj) [4] GCSI GCIE GCVO (26 June 1874 – 6 May 1922) of the Bhonsle dynasty of Marathas was a Raja (reign. 1894 – 1900) and the first Maharaja (1900–1922) of the Indian princely state of Kolhapur.
Maharaj: The English equivalent of Maharaj is great king. It is a title first conferred upon Chhatrapati Shivaji's father Shahaji Raje Bhosale. Maharani: The English equivalent of Maharani is great queen. It is a title first used by Tarabai, as regent of marathas empire . Raje: The English equivalent of Raje is Your Majesty. It is a title first ...
Gogaji, also known as Gogaji Jaharveer Maharaj or Jaharveer Chauhan, is a folk Hindu deity in northern India. [1] He is worshipped in the northern states of India especially in Rajasthan , Himachal Pradesh , Haryana , Uttarakhand , Punjab region , Uttar Pradesh , Jammu and Gujarat . [ 2 ]
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was the founder of the Maratha Empire. He was born in the Bhonsle clan in 1630. [51] Shivaji carved out an enclave from the declining Adilshahi sultanate of Bijapur that formed the seed of the Maratha Empire. To build his territory, he fought not only the Mughals and the Adilshahi, but also many Maratha Watandars.
Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Nisargadatta Maharaj met his guru, Siddharameshwar Maharaj, in 1933. Siddharameshwar died two and half years later, and Nisargadatta continued to practice what his guru had taught him while running a small shop in Khetwadi locality in Girgaon, Mumbai. In 1951, after receiving an inner revelation from his guru ...
Bakhar is a form of historical narrative written in Marathi prose. Bakhars are one of the earliest genres of medieval Marathi literature. [1] More than 200 bakhars were written in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, the most important of them chronicling the deeds of the Maratha ruler Shivaji.