Maratha Confederacy

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noun

1. a loose league of states in central and western India, c1750–1818.

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Example Sentences

Several of these still remained in a more or less dependent but restless condition, and the great leaders of the Maráthá confederacy, Sindhia, Malhár Ráo Holkar, son and successor of Jaswant Ráo, the Peshwá, and the Rájá of Nágpur, retained a large share of their former sovereignty.

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Peace was made with the Maráthá confederacy in May, 1782, by the treaty of Salbái, which was ratified seven months later.

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Hindu states, like the Maratha confederacy and Rajputana, asserted themselves.

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That some historic truth lies below the garbled tale of shipwreck and resurrection is partly proved by the physical traits of their descendants,—of those men, in fact, whose immediate ancestors, employed at first as messengers or spies of Maratha chieftains, by innate cleverness, tact, and faculty for management gradually welded together the loose Maratha confederacy and became directors of the internal and external politics of the Peshwa's dominions.

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