32 Facts About Maratha Confederacy

Maratha Empire, or the Maratha Confederacy, was an early modern Indian confederation that came to dominate much of the Indian subcontinent in the 18th century.

In 1761, the Maratha Confederacy Army lost the Third Battle of Panipat, which halted their imperial expansion into Afghanistan.

Ten years after Panipat, the young Peshwa Madhav Rao I's Maratha Confederacy Resurrection reinstated Maratha Confederacy authority over North India.

Large portion of the Maratha Confederacy empire was coastline, which had been secured by the potent Maratha Confederacy Navy under commanders such as Kanhoji Angre.

Maratha Confederacy successfully kept foreign naval ships at bay, particularly those of the Portuguese and British.

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Maratha Confederacy created an independent Maratha kingdom with Raigad as its capital and successfully fought against the Mughals to defend his kingdom.

Maratha Confederacy was crowned as Chhatrapati of the new Maratha kingdom in 1674.

The Maratha Confederacy victory in this war was a major achievement of Baji Rao's time in office.

Maratha Confederacy undertook six expeditions into Bengal from 1741 to 1748.

The resurgent Maratha Confederacy Empire launched brutal raids against the prosperous Bengali state in the 18th century, which further added to the decline of the Nawabs of Bengal.

Maratha Confederacy is said to have planned to place his nephew and the Peshwa's son, Vishwasrao, on the Mughal throne.

The Maratha Confederacy Army lost the battle, which halted their imperial expansion.

Maratha Confederacy worked as a unifying force in the Maratha Empire and moved to the south to subdue Mysore and the Nizam of Hyderabad to assert Maratha power.

Maratha Confederacy sent generals such as Bhonsle, Scindia and Holkar to the north, where they re-established Maratha authority by the early 1770s.

Maratha Confederacy rescued the last queen of the Keladi Nayaka Kingdom, who had been kept in confinement by Hyder Ali in the fort of Madgiri.

Maratha Confederacy's death is considered to be a fatal blow to the Maratha Empire and from that time Maratha power started to move on a downward trajectory, less an empire than a confederacy.

Maratha Confederacy delegated the administration of Gwalior to Khanderao Hari Bhalerao.

In 1791, irregulars like lamaans and pindaris of the Maratha Confederacy army raided and looted the temple of Sringeri Shankaracharya, killing and wounding many people including Brahmins, plundering the monastery of all its valuable possessions, and desecrating the temple by displacing the image of goddess Sarada.

Maratha Confederacy started campaigning towards the north to expand his empire in that region.

The Maratha Confederacy-ruled states of Gwalior, Indore, and Nagpur all lost territory and came under subordinate alliances with the British Raj as princely states that retained internal sovereignty under British paramountcy.

Third Anglo-Maratha Confederacy War was fought by Maratha Confederacy warlords separately instead of forming a common front and they surrendered one by one.

The Maratha Confederacy force set out from Pune and defeated the Afghan Rohillas in 1752, capturing the whole of Rohilkhand.

Maratha Confederacy had established such Maths and mandirs in every corner of the country.

Maratha Confederacy used to send gifts to the Math and had allotted a big chunk of land to the shrine so much so that he would call the Swamy of the Math as 'Jagadguru'.

Maratha Confederacy documented the destruction of over 22 towns and Hindu temples.

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Maratha Confederacy wrote that 'A number of small towns and villages in the vicinity of Dharwar' were 'razed'.

Maratha Confederacy armies swept through the region and repeated on a mass scale what they had done to Kannadigas since Shivaji's burning and plundering of Karnataka's towns and markets in mid 17th century.

Under the administration of the Peshwas and with the support of several key generals and diplomats, the Maratha Confederacy Empire reached its zenith, ruling most of the Indian subcontinent.

Maratha Confederacy believed that there was a close bond between the state and the citizens.

Maratha Confederacy was naturally loved by all men of valor and good conduct.

Maratha Confederacy army under Shivaji was a national army consisting of personnel drawn mainly from Maharashtra.

Maratha Confederacy cautioned one British general: "You must never allow Maratha infantry to attack head on or in close hand-to-hand combat as in that your army will cover itself with utter disgrace".