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...tion to guard the district from foreign invasion or internal disorder. The Marathas looked only to their own gain and not to the fate of their prey after they

...win over many an adversary to his side. The [[Mughals]], the Ruhilas, the Marathas and British sought his friendship. In the wake of decay of Mughal authority

Some of the former ruling houses of South India, Kathiawar and Marathas claiming link with Yaduvanshis may also be directly or indirectly linked wi

As Ahmad Shah was returning home after his historic victory over the Marathas in the third battle of Panipat in 1761, the Sikhs had harassed him all th

...ellion in Multan. In early 1758, the Dal Khalsa, in collaboration with the Marathas, occupied [[Sirhind]] and [[Lahore]]. Within three months of the [[Vadda Gh ...ater by rdkhi imposts. Rakhi, lit. protection, was, like the chauth of the Marathas, a levy of a portion, usually onefifth of the revenue assessment of a terri

...traders with their own dialects moved to the Deccan and settled among the Marathas, Kannadigas and Telugus. There were also many Hindus among them, such as Ra

...ans in Afghanistan, the sultans of Bijapur and Golkonda in the Deccan, the Marathas in Maharashtra and the Ahoms in Assam. Peasant uprisings and revolts by loc

After Mughal rule was broken by the Marathas and the Sikhs the British were able to use this native tendancy of me and

...eir dynasty effectively ruled for six generations, untill the [[Sikhs]], [[Marathas]] and the [[British]] destroyed their power. India and its more moderate re

...25 years were spent in the Deccan fighting a war of attrition against the Marathas which practically bankrupted the Mughal Empire, which never rose again to i

...Ranjit Singh to chalk out their future course of action, in respect of the Marathas and the English, therefore, attracted only a few directly affected Sardars

8) If he was a Hindu then why did he not join Marathas or other Hindu kingdoms in the South? Why did he have to join Sikhs? ...g that Banda Bairagi (real name Banda Singh) along with his Hindu army and Marathas came to Guru Ji to help Him avenge the death of his two youngest sons. This

...l it was severely weakened in the eighteenth century by the attacks of the Marathas and the 1739 sack of Delhi by the Persian Nadir Shah. As Mughal power weake While Ahmed Shah Abdali was engaged in a campaign against the Marathas at Panipat in 1761, Jassa Singh Ahluwalia plundered Sirhind and Dialpur, se

...into the next day and by afternoon Jhangar been secured. From Jhangar, the Marathas advanced yet again and captured the hill feature overlooking the valley. Lt

...at (January 1761) was a severe blow to the Mughal empire as well as to the Marathas as rivals to the Sikhs in northwest India. The only contender left now was

...nent was a conglomeration of various races, tribes, and ethnic groups. The Marathas too emerged a nation under Shivaji, contemporaneously with the Sikhs. Benga

Another significant Jadhav sept found among Marathas is Dhampal. The reviver of Shoorsaini kingdom in around 6-7 AD is also de ...Marathas as " Tombar" both as a sub-clan of Yaduvanshi or Jadhav line of Marathas and as an independent Maratha sept.

...infidels which included not only various denominations of Hindus including Marathas and Rajputs, but Shia Muslims too. The ire fell on the Guru’s Sikhs also separate entity of the Panth. 180. The only other people to do so were Marathas under the leadership of Shivaji. But the basis