The Maratha Empire under Chhatrapati Shivaji may have ended in the early 1800s but in Maharashtra, the Marathas continue to have a resounding presence. In this four-part series, we will do a deep dive ...
The Maratha quota question became irrelevant during the Maharashtra Assembly election. Most surprisingly, in the Marathwada region, the epicentre of Maratha reservation protests, Mahayuti won a ...
The conception of the Maratha caste became integral to the social and caste dynamics with the addition of Kshatriya (warrior) discourse and internal class conflicts with the Kunbis. Today they occupy ...
Before the establishment of the Mughal empire in the 16th century the region had seen the rise and fall of at least two major kingdoms, the Delhi Sultanate under Mohammad bin Tughlaq who, fearing a ...