37 Facts About Maratha Empire

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 Empire 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 Empire Resurrection reinstated Maratha Empire authority over North India.

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

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

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Maratha Empire had its head in the Chhatrapati as de jure, but the de facto governance was in the hands of the Peshwas after Chhatrapati Shahu I's reign.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maratha Empire'storians have criticised the Maratha treatment of fellow Hindu groups.

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

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

Maratha Empire'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 Empire delegated the administration of Gwalior to Khanderao Hari Bhalerao.

In 1791, irregulars like lamaans and pindaris of the Maratha Empire 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 Empire soon allied with the British East India Company against Mysore in the Anglo-Mysore Wars.

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

Maratha Empire tried to unite the Maratha Confederacy but to no avail.

The Maratha Empire-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 Empire War was fought by Maratha Empire warlords separately instead of forming a common front and they surrendered one by one.

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

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

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

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

Maratha Empire 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 Empire reached its zenith, ruling most of the Indian subcontinent.

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

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

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

Maratha army, especially its infantry, was praised by almost all the enemies of the Maratha Empire, ranging from the Duke of Wellington to Ahmad Shah Abdali.

Maratha Empire 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".