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Maratha Wars(encyclopedia)
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Iroquois Confederacy(encyclopedia)
Maravi confederacy(encyclopedia)
CONFEDERACY, crim(law)

Maratha confederacy (sh)




Maratha alliance formed in the 18th century in western India after Shivaji's Maratha kingdom collapsed under Mughal pressure.

Under Shivaji's grandson, power fell to peshwas (chief ministers) from leading Maratha families, who ruled effectively in the early 18th century but quarreled as the century waned. The confederacy fell to the British in 1818.