2½ lakhs to the Peshva as Bhosle's tribute to the Maratha State and secured the office of Sena Saheb Subha for Janoji.

* The Second Anglo-Maratha War ( 1803 – 1805 ) is fought between the Maratha Peshwa on one side and minor chieftains of the Maratha Confederacy Sindhia, Bhonsle and Holkar on the other resulting in a crushing defeat of the rebel chieftains and the breakup of the Maratha confederacy.

Following the British victory in the Second Anglo-Maratha War, Daulat Rao Sindhia of the Maratha Empire signed the Treaty of Surji-Anjangaon which ceded to the British the Ganges-Jumna Doab, Delhi, and parts of Bundelkhand and Braj.

Mahadaji Sindhia was the Maratha ruler of the state of Gwalior in central India.

Maratha Sindhia ruler of Gwalior gave up the district of Ajmer-Merwara to the British, and Maratha influence in Rajasthan came to an end.

When the regular forces of the Marathas had been broken up in the campaigns conducted by Sir Arthur Wellesley and Lord Lake in 1802-04, the Pindaris made their headquarters in Malwa, under the tacit protection of Maratha Dynasties like Sindhia and Holkar.

Panchmahal were conquered from the Mughal Empire by the Maratha general Sindhia in the eighteenth century.

He was trained in European regiments and then became a success in India in the service of Mahadaji Sindhia of Gwalior in central India, who ruled over the Maratha Empire.

She confided to him that Sindhia, the Maratha chief wanted him back.

Sindhia refused because his treasury could not afford it, but also because he had doubts about the superiority of the artillery-infantry combination, as opposed to the cavalry that had been the main weapon of the Maratha armies.

In 1680 Devi Singh Bundela was made governor of the city, and Chanderi remained in the hands of his family until it was annexed in 1811 by Jean Baptiste Filose for the Maratha ruler Daulat Rao Sindhia of Gwalior.

After the death of Phadnavis in 1800, the Maratha leaders Yashwantrao Holkar of Indore and Daulat Rao Sindhia of Gwalior contested for control of the empire ; their rivalry made its way to Pune, seat of the Peshwa.

Holkar and Sindhia resisted the British intrusion on Maratha affairs, which resulted in the Second Anglo-Maratha War of 1803-1805.

Sharpe defends Wellesley against several Maratha horsemen and so saves the general's life, receiving a battlefield promotion for this act of bravery.

At one time Bhim Singh Rana was not riding horse at that time Maratha Atrao attacked Rana with sword.

Credits given for modern additions to the building of ghats and the renovation / construction of temples go to Maharaja Man Singh I of Amber for the Raj Ghat and Man temple ; Rana Pratap for the Varaha temple ; Daulat Rao Scindia for Kot Tirth Ghat, the Marathas-Anaji Scindia to the Koteshwar Mahadev temple and Govind Rao, the Maratha governor of Ajmer for Shiva Ghat ; to the British rule for combining the religious pilgrimage with a cattle fair to generate taxes for improving the lake and its surroundings ; and gifting of the Jaipur Ghat and the Main Palace on the ghat in 1956 by the Maharaja of Jaipur.

In Jai Singh's first viceroyalty ( subahdar ) of Malwa ( 1714 – 1717 ), isolated Maratha war-bands that entered the province from the south ( Deccan ) were constantly defeated and repulsed by Jai Singh.

The armed strength of Jai Singh had always made him, the most formidable ruler in Northern India and all the other Rajas looked up to him for protection and the promotion of their interests at the Imperial court. The fast-spreading Maratha dominion and their raids into the north had caused alarm among the Rajput chiefs — Jai Singh called a conference of Rajput rulers at Hurda ( 1734 ) to deal with this peril but nothing came of this meeting.

To thwart further Maratha domination Sawai Jai Singh planned a local hegemony, to form under the leadership of Jaipur, a political union in Rajputana.

He made Gaunsgarh his capital and tried to strengthen his position against Maratha Empire attacks by entering into a friendship with the Gurjar chieftain Manohar Singh.

2012 – Lt. Navdeep Singh of 15 Maratha Light Infantry – LT Navdeep Singh, commander of Ghatak platoon, was posted on line of control of high altitude area.

* The East India Company arranges a trading treaty with the Maratha Empire that has recently been founded by Shivaji Bhonsle in central India.

The term Marāthā has two related usages: within the Marathi speaking region it describes the dominant Maratha caste ; historically, it describes the Maratha Empire founded by Shivaji in the seventeenth century and continued by his successors, which included many castes.

Mhow has a sizable number of Marathis as it is part of Indore, the erstwhile state ruled by the Maratha Holkar family.

The term “ Marathwada ” has its origin in the word “ Mara-hatti-vada ( Mar-hat-vada )”, meaning a region of Maratha community.

The southern or Maratha group includes Kolhapur, Akalkot, Sawantwari, and the Satara and southern Mahratta Jagirs, and has a historical bond of union in the friendship they showed to the British in their final struggle with the power of the peshwa until 1818.

Local lore has it that the temple is more than 400 years old and was built during Shivaji's Maratha rule ; no definite date on the construction is available.

North India has been the historical center of the Maurya, Gupta, Mughal, Maratha, Sikh and British Indian Empires.

Rane has a BBA degree from the United States, and comes from the prominent Maratha family of the Ranes, that dominated politics out of their home in the north eastern pocket of Sattari in Goa.

The fort which was originally built by Maratha ruler, Shivaji is located on the coast, and has an entrance hollowed out in it to accommodate entry of a vessel from the sea.

The Maratha Light Infantry has its regimental headquarters in Belgaum.

Maratha folk history has it that Murarbaji showed incredible skills as a swordsman and was an aggressive and inspiring leader who pushed back and caused a retreat of a larger Mughal force.

In Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena uses the legacy of the independent Maratha kingdom under heroes like Shivaji to stir up support, and has adopted Hindutva as well.

Tilak took up the people's cause by publishing inflammatory articles in his paper Kesari ( Kesari was written in Marathi, and Maratha was written in English ), quoting the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, to say that no blame could be attached to anyone who killed an oppressor without any thought of reward.

The prose section contained the Bakhars that were written after the foundation of the Maratha kingdom by Shivaji.

With his entire imperial court, administration, and an army of about 500, 000 troops he proceeded to conquer the entire Maratha Empire along with the sultanates of Bijapur and Golconda.

At about 9: 00, as the fog began to lift, the troops were overwhelmed by the discharge of two pieces of heavy cannon from across the Maratha Ditch by the Nawab ’ s artillery.

At this point, Wellesley received further intelligence that rather than being at Borkardan, the Maratha army was camped just north, but their cavalry had moved off and the infantry were about to follow.

At about 13: 00, Wellesley went forward with a cavalry escort to reconnoitre the Maratha position.

The British lost 86 men and the Maratha about 500.

Shivaji and half of the Maratha force pushed for Vishalgadh, while Bajiprabhu and the remaining Bandal Sena of about 300 men blocked the pass.

The British, commanded by General Lake were about 10, 000 men strong, opposing the Sindhia's Maratha army of 9, 000 veteran infantry and 5, 000 cavalry.

It is the site of a large bronze statue of the Maratha warrior-king and folk hero Chhatrapati Shivaji on a horse, and of a sculpted stone museum exhibit about him.

Little is known about his early life except that he was involved in daring exploits at sea and that his father was Tanoji Angre, a commander under Maratha Chhatrapati ( Emperor ) Shivaji.

* In 1698, Angre located his first base at the Maratha fort of Vijayadurg (' Victory Fort ') ( formerly Gheriah ) located about 425 km from Mumbai.

The West India Company began to become concerned about this new Maratha army, dangerous to their domination.