South and Central Asia · Kingdom

Maratha state and confederacy

1674-1818 CE; authority became confederated and regionally varied · Western Deccan and wider subcontinent

Shivaji's kingdom and later Maratha houses used forts, mobile armies, taxation and negotiated alliances to become a major post-Mughal political power.

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How the setting appeared

Hill forts, plateau villages, market towns, roads and coastal strongholds organized power across difficult terrain.

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How people lived

Cultivators, local chiefs, administrators, merchants, soldiers and camp followers experienced both protection and repeated fiscal or military demands.

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How people worked

Cavalry, infantry, fort crews, scribes, revenue collectors, transport workers and farmers sustained dispersed campaigns and administration.

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Belief, ritual and worship

Maratha rulers patronized Hindu institutions and political symbols while governing religiously diverse populations; modern nationalist readings should not replace seventeenth-century contexts.

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World-atlas stage: Oceanic empires
Region: South Asia · Western Deccan and wider subcontinent
Languages and scripts: Marathi; Modi script; Sanskrit; Persian
Important people: Shivaji; Tarabai; Balaji Vishwanath; Ahilyabai Holkar; Mahadji Shinde
Events and changes: Coronation of Shivaji; War with Mughal forces; Expansion of Maratha houses; Anglo-Maratha Wars
Evidence confidence: High: correspondence, revenue records, forts and landscapes are extensive; the confederacy was not a unitary modern nation-state, surviving narratives privilege military elites, and control shifted by campaign.

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Historical geography

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Evidence register

Guides used for this record

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CIT-LOC-COUNTRY-STUDIES

Country Studies Collection

https://www.loc.gov/collections/country-studies/about-this-collection/

Library of Congress, Federal Research Division

CIT-MET-MUGHAL-LATE

The Art of the Mughals after 1600

https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-art-of-the-mughals-after-1600

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-UNESCO-MARATHA

Maratha Military Landscapes of India

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1739/

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

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