Maratha

It is difficult to avoid confusion in the use of the term Maratha, which signifies both an inhabitant of the area in which the

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

Hari Hareshwar being the family diety of the Peshwa's had great importance in Maratha history.

Hari Hareshwar, Paradise Calling Anjali 2007

Hari Hareshwar being the family diety of the Peshwa's had great importance in Maratha history.

Archive 2007-12-01 Anjali 2007

a belief in his divine mission, founded a kingdom in the western Ghats and, like the Sikh leaders, almost created a nation, for it does not appear that before his time the word Maratha (Mahârâshṭra) had any special ethnic significance.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

The Bihari coolie is be-headed by poor and unemployed Marathi youth for Maratha pride.

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So the Ram mandir, Maratha pride and Islamism are invented to prevent unity of the poor.

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Sights including a square mixing Persian, Mughal, Maratha and British architecture, an awe-inspiring 15th-century mosque and the marble depths of a Jain temple -- as well as India's oldest stock - exchange building.

An Old City's New Approach Margot Cohen 2010

Perched on a black and white horse dressed in his ceremonial richly worked-on angarkha, laden with assorted jewels and with his trademark Maratha pagri (a community-specific headgear) placed on his head with just a hint of a tilt to its left he would ride down the city roads.

Muharram of my childhood 2010

Some Maharashtrians see the gudis as a symbol of victory associated with the conquests of the Maratha forces lead by the great hero Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

Gudi Padwa – Bandra Gaothan « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008

Perched on a black and white horse dressed in his ceremonial richly worked-on angarkha, laden with assorted jewels and with his trademark Maratha pagri (a community-specific headgear) placed on his head with just a hint of a tilt to its left he would ride down the city roads.

Muharram of my childhood 2010