23 Facts About Marathi people

Marathi people community came into political prominence in the 17th century, when the Maratha Empire was established under Chhatrapati Shivaji; the Marathas are credited to a large extent for ending Mughal rule over India.

Village society in Marathi people areas included the Patil or the head of the village, collector of revenue, and Kulkarni, the village record-keeper.

Significant Marathi people populations resided in Maratha princely states far from Maharashtra such as Baroda, Gwalior, Indore, and Tanjore.

Marathi people used Brahmins of Pune for this task and adopted the Sanskrit-dominated dialect spoken by this caste in the city as the standard dialect for Marathi.

Marathi people community played an important part in the social and religious reform movements, as well as the Indian nationalist movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Marathi people was a leading figure in the Hindu Mahasabha.

Small community of Marathi people Jews started emigrating to the newly created country of Israel in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

In 1956, the States Reorganisation Act reorganised the Indian states along linguistic lines, and the Bombay Presidency State was enlarged by the addition of the predominantly Marathi people-speaking regions of Marathwada from the erstwhile Hyderabad state and the Vidarbha region from the Central Provinces and Berar.

From 1954 to 1955, Marathi people strongly protested against the bilingual Bombay State, and the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti was formed to agitate for a Marathi-speaking state.

Mass protests, 105 deaths, and heavy losses in the Marathi people-speaking areas by the ruling Congress Party in the 1957 election, led the government under Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to change its policy and agree to the protesters' demands.

On 1 May 1960, the separate Marathi people-speaking state was formed by dividing the earlier Bombay State into the new states of Maharashtra and Gujarat.

The majority of Marathi people Hindu belong either to the cultivator class Maratha one of the former village servant castes which include ?Shimpi, Lohar, Suthar, Mali, Gurav, Kumbhar, Sonar, Teli, Chambhar, Matang, Koli and Nabhik.

Surat, Vyara-Tapi, Valsad, Navsari and Dang in South Gujarat and Vadodara have large pockets of Marathi-speaking people who have close family ties with border areas of Maharashtra such as Thane, Nandurbar and Dhule.

Indians, including Marathi People, have migrated to Europe and particularly Great Britain for more than a century.

Marathi Hindu people are historically endogamous within their caste but exogamous with their clan.

Studies show that most Indians' traditional views on caste, religion, and family background have remained unchanged when it came to marriage, that is, Marathi people marry within their own castes, and matrimonial advertisements in newspapers are still classified by caste and sub-caste.

Marathi people Hindus celebrate most of the Indian Hindu festivals such as Dasara, Diwali and Raksha Bandhan.

Marathi Hindu people observe fasting days when traditional staple food like rice and chapatis are avoided.

Marathi people Hindus choose given names for their children from a variety of sources.

Marathi people, known as Seuna at that time, was the court language during the reign of the Yadava Kings.

Marathi people have a long literary tradition which started in the ancient era.

Lokmanya Tilak's newspaper Kesari in Marathi people was a strong voice in promoting Ganeshotsav or Chhatrapati Shivaji festival.

Marathi people founded the Maratha Empire, which at the time of the mid 18th century controlled large parts of the Indian subcontinent.