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During much of the 18th century, the Peshwas, belonging to the Deshmukh Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family, controlled the Maratha army and later became the hereditary heads of the Maratha Empire from 1749 to 1818. [57] During their reign, the Maratha empire reached its zenith in 1760, dominating most of the Indian subcontinent.
The Maratha rulers, belonging to the various dynasties, from the early 17th century to the early 18th century, built and ruled the Maratha Empire on the Indian subcontinent. [ 1 ] [ note 1 ] It was established by the Chhatrapati (the Maratha emperor ) in 1670s.
Volume 4: The Age of Imperial Kanauj [750–1000 A.D.] Volume 5: The Struggle for Empire [1000–1300 A.D.] Volume 6: The Delhi Sultanate [1300–1526] Volume 7: The Mughul Empire [1526–1707] Volume 8: The Maratha Supremacy [1707–1818] Volume 9: British Paramountcy and Indian Renaissance, Part 1 [1818–1905]
The Maratha heartland of Desh, including Pune, came under direct British rule, except the states of Kolhapur and Satara, which retained local Maratha rulers (descendants of Shivaji and Sambhaji II ruled over Kolhapur). The Maratha-ruled states of Gwalior, Indore, and Nagpur all lost territory and came under subordinate alliances with the ...
Maratha cavalry pillaged the army of the Nawab on being requested by Rustam Jung. [3] In April 1742, they crossed the Damodar River at Panchet and began plundering and burning the army of the Nawab. [3] [4] The Maratha Ditch was built by the British East India Company around Fort William to protect the city of Calcutta from the ruthless Bargi ...
Some years later, Dowson began work on a volume concerning medieval Gujarat that was also based on Elliot's papers. This was incomplete at the time of his death in 1881 and was later published in a completely different form — as The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians: The Local Muhammadan Dynasties: Gujarat — under the ...
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.
[29] [30] Thus de facto Maratha control over Orissa was established by 1751, while de jure it remained a part of Bengal Subah till 1752. [29] After the assassination of Mir Habib, the governor of Orissa in 1752, the Marathas formally incorporated Orissa in their dominion, [ 30 ] as part of Nagpur kingdom .