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	Mahrattas - LoveToKnow 1911
		There are indeed still three large native states nominally Mahratta: that of Sindhia near the borders of Hindustan in the north, that of Holkar in Malwa in the heart of the Indian continent, and that of the gaekwar in Gujarat on the western coast.
		Thus the Mahratta power was consolidated throughout nearly the whole of Maharashtra under the Brahman peshwa as virtual sovereign, with his capital at Poona, while the titular Mahratta raja or king had his court at the neighbouring city of Satara.
		But the new system was unsuited to the Mahratta genius; it hampered the meteoric movements of the cavalry, which was obliged to manoeuvre in combination with the new artillery and the disciplined battalions.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Mahrattas (3362 words)

	* The British and the Mahrattas*
		Mahratta captains reigned at Poonah, at Gualior, in Guzerat, in Berar, and in Tanjore.
		Less than a hundred years ago, it was thought necessary to fortify Calcutta against the horsemen of Berar, and the name of the Mahratta ditch still preserves the memory of the danger.
		Was the Mussulman or the Mahratta to be the Lord of India?
	meerutup.tripod.com /mahrattas.htm (1885 words)

	MAHRATTAS - Article en ligne de l'information environ MAHRATTAS
		Le Mahrattas suivent généralement Siva et son épouse, une déesse de crainte connue sous beaucoup de noms.
		Le Mahratta guerre-pleurent, "Har, Har, Mahadeo," Siva visé.
		Les dames et les princesses de Mahratta ont souvent pris une pièce en avant, pour bon ou mauvais, dans des affaires publiques et des intrigues dynastic.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /fr/LUP_MAL/MAHRATTAS.html (5032 words)

	MLI Chapter 4
		The recording of the history of these two Mahratta units in the Italian campaign of 1943-45 unfortunately suffers on account of this dispersion, detailed reports and accounts not being readily available, and there is reason to believe that much of interest and deserving of record remains untold.
		While their main forces were withdrawing to the northward the Germans, using to the full the advantage for defence offered by the difficult terrain, sought to delay the pursuit with strong and aggressive rearguards, cleverly fought tanks and self-propelled guns, and the ingenious use of demolitions, mines, and booby traps.
		At Jenne, ‘C’ Company of the 1st Mahrattas, proceeding on a lone detachment, received a particularly warm ovation and at San Pietro the villagers rang the church bells in welcome—only to have their church tower shelled and destroyed by the Germans in retaliation.
	www.burmastar.org.uk /mli_chapter_4.htm (4710 words)

	MAHRATTAS - Online Information article about MAHRATTAS
		During the earlier Moslem invasions in r roo and in subsequent years, the Mahrattas do not seem to have made much resistance.
		Perron and others—rose in the Mahratta service to a position dangerous to the British.
		powers existing in India to keep the Mahrattas in check, and some parts of India were excepted from their depredations.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LUP_MAL/MAHRATTAS.html (3777 words)

	GPD for the PDA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mahrattas are the descendants of the warrior-king, Shivaji, who because of his outstanding prowess in guerrilla tactics against their emperor in the 17th century, is now hailed as a national hero.
		Mahrattas are one of the vital groups of India, occupying all sectors of employment, which include politics, government offices, police, education and the military.
		Pray that Mahratta hearts will be convicted of their need for the Savior as they read the tracts and hear the testimonies of national Christian workers who are going house to house, sharing the gospel.
	www.global-prayer-digest.org /pda/daily/2003-8-13.html (312 words)

	MLI Chapter 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the not infrequent patrol clashes the Mahratta more than held his own, although success was not achieved without loss and several fine young officers fell to the rifles of lurking enemy snipers lying in wait to pick off the patrol leaders.
		A sharp action was fought on 21st June 1943 when a small detachment of the 4th Mahrattas, under the command of Captain D. Pearson, in co-operation with a platoon of the 1st Seaforth Highlanders, made a raiding attack on the Japanese post at Yetagaun in the Atwin Yomas between the Kabaw Valley and the Chindwin.
		While the Mahrattas successfully engaged the attention of the Japanese by attacking frontally, the Highlanders penetrated the village from the rear.
	www.burmastar.org.uk /mli_chapter_5.htm (4643 words)

	The Sepoy Rebellion of 1857-59 - A. H. AMIN
		The Mahrattas did not like the Purbiya or Hindustani and the Hindustanis also disliked this race since the Mahrattas were plunderers and looters like the Afghans (although a little more well mannered) and they were equally disliked by both Hindus and Muslims of the Gangetic plain.
		The Mahrattas were a brave and courageous people and they shattered the myth of Muslim and Mughal invincibility which had for so long kept the non-Muslim inhabitants of the sub-continent victim of an irrational inferiority complex; that they could never win against any Muslim invaders.
		We are discussing the history of Mahrattas because it is felt that it was not a question of bravery or martial prowess in 1857 but that of political awareness and unfortunately this awareness was overall lacking in the majority of regions of Indo-Pak sub-continent in 1857.
	www.defencejournal.com /2001/august/sepoy.htm (2672 words)

	New Page 1
		The Mahrattas did not make any distinction as to the race or religious beliefs of the various chieftains in the extraction of the said 'fee' nor was the 'Battle of Panipat’ (1761) fought by them in the capacity of for representing the 'HINDUS' only.
		As a matter of fact the artillery of the Mahrattas in the said battle was commanded by one lbrahirn Khan Gardi and manned by gunners of his Pathan heritage, who also perished in the battle along with the Mahrattas.
		Neither had the Mahrattas permitted their religious sentiments and/or emotions to be hurt and/ or adversely affected permanently in consequence of the worst kind of a defeat they had ever suffered.
	www.madhavdeshpande.com /slide/sh40.htm (4737 words)

	Etext » books
		The Moghuls were thus led to have recourse to the Mahrattas; and Holkar was even engaged as a nominal partizan of the Empire, against his co-religionists the Jats, and his former patron the Viceroy of Audh.
		THE Mahratta confederacy was in 1759 irresistible from the borders of Berar to the banks of the Ganges.
		The Mahrattas had more cavalry, fewer foot, and an artillery of 200 guns; in addition to which they were aided, if aid it could be called in regular warfare, by clouds of predatory horsemen, making up their whole force to over 200,000, mostly, as it turned out, food for the sabre and the gun.
	etext.teamnesbitt.com /books/etext/etext98/tfmeh10.txt.html (19114 words)

	Rohilla - LoveToKnow 1911
		Having been driven into the mountains by the Mahrattas, they had appealed for aid to Shuja-ud-Dowlah, wazir of Oudh, and ally of the British.
		The wazir promised to assist them in return for a sum of money; but when the Mahrattas were driven off the Rohilla chiefs refused to pay.
		The wazir then decided to annex their country, and appealed to Hastings for assistance, which was given in return for a sum of forty lakhs of rupees.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Rohilla (318 words)

	Tour Of India - A Deccani Mission
		of the population of the villages, and are Mahrattas.
		Consequently they are much disliked (they are of course a different race, for the Mahrattas are Scythians) and their monopolies are being questioned and challenged.
		To the Mahratta all outcastes are equally despicable in theory but in practice out-caste castes have been formed.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles25/india-6.shtml (5173 words)

	The Hindu : Struggle for survival
		WHEN the Mahrattas ruled Tamil Nadu from Thanjavur (their dynasty was founded by Chatrapati Shivaji's half-brother Venkoji) for nearly two centuries from 1675, they encouraged a large number of settlers from the Deccan and Karnataka to consolidate their power in the South.
		Thanjavur became the southern home of the Mahrattas till it was annexed by the British under the Doctrine of Lapse in the mid- 1880s.
		The Mahrattas did not impose or try to impose their language and culture on the local people.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/01/15/stories/1315063j.htm (1399 words)

	Battle of Assaye : Napoleonic Wars : Duke of Wellington : Arthur Wellesley : Mahrattas War :
		In charge of a British and sepoy army of some 13,500 men, General Arthur Wellesley took on a major Indian force at least three times the size of his own at Assaye.
		The move was not without its dangers and only a strong counterattack by the British cavalry forced the elite Mahratta cavalry away.
		The village of Assaye itself was a tough defensive nut to crack and, adding to Wellesley's difficulties, another Mahratta cavalry attack had to be seen off by the British cavalry.
	www.napoleonguide.com /battle_assaye.htm (271 words)

	Thanjavur.com History
		Thanjavur was the royal city of the cholas, Nayaks and the Mahrattas.
		He defeated Alagiri and seized the throne in 1676 because of the dissensions in Nayaks.
		Of the various rulers of Thanjavur, the Cholas seem to have left in the Great temple of Sri Bragatheeswara a striking relic of their genius.
	www.thanjavur.com /history.htm (509 words)

	Who are the Mahrattas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The people who spoke Mahratta (nowadays usually called Marathi) were a Hindu tribal confederation.
		The fierce devotion of the Mahrattas to Hinduism resulted in a warlike response to British presence in India.
		It coincided with the British triumph over the Mahrattas in a series of three wars that lasted from 1776 to 1782, from 1803 to 1806, and from 1817 to 1819.
	www.wmcarey.edu /carey/mahratta/who.htm (112 words)

	Abbeys Bookshop - Sharpes Fortress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is 1803 and Sir Arthur Wellesley's army is closing on the retreating Mahrattas in western India.
		And waiting with the cornered Mahrattas is another enemy, the renegade Englishman, William Dodd, who does not envisage defeat, but only a glorious triumph.
		For the Mahrattas have taken refuge in Gawilghur, the greatest stronghold of India, perched high on its cliffs above the Deccan Plain.
	www.abbeys.com.au /items/12/40/41 (242 words)

	The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 eBook
		A formidable confederacy had been formed between the Nizam, the Mahrattas, and the famous Hyder Ali, Sultan of Mysore, with the object of crushing their common enemy, the English.
		The province of Gujerat was reduced, the Mahratta chiefs, Sindia and Holkar, were defeated, and everything portended a favourable termination of the war, when the whole face of affairs was changed by news from the south.
		Hyder Ali, the most able and warlike of the native princes, swept down upon the Carnatic in July, 1780, at the head of a disciplined army of nearly 100,000 men.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/6042/76.html (443 words)

	BIJNOR.COM
		The northern districts were granted by Ali Mahommed to Najib Khan, who gradually extended his influence west of the Ganges and at Delhi, receiving the title of Najib-ud-daula and becoming paymaster of the royal forces.
		Najib, indeed, held his own, and for the part played by him in the victory of Panipat was made vizier of the empire.
		After his death in 1770, however, his son Zabita Kban was defeated by the Mahrattas, who overran all Rohilkhand.
	www24.brinkster.com /rajatagarwal/history.asp (429 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Frontpage
		Most accounts by military historians record that the British Indian Army’s 6th (Poona) Division that marched from Basra along the Tigris was commanded by Major-General Charles Townshend, an officer known more for his flamboyance than for his tactical acumen.
		Among the units of the division was the 114th Mahrattas.
		Post-1947, the 114th Mahrattas — who had the battlecry “Chhattrapati Shivaji Maharaj ki Jai” — was absorbed into the 10th battalion of the Maratha Light Infantry regiment.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030611/asp/frontpage/story_2057241.asp (686 words)

	2005 Passings-Col. John Gunn, MC - Military Photos
		A frontal assault was made by a company of 4/5th Mahrattas Light Infantry.
		When the Seaforths heard the Mahrattas open fire, they climbed through the wire in the rear of the enemy position and slipped into their trenches.
		The attack by the Mahrattas did not seem to have been pressed, and the Japanese turned their attention to Gunn and his men.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=67099 (1045 words)

	Indian Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Though he expanded the empire to include nearly the entire subcontinent, he could never totally subdue the Mahrattas of the Deccan, who resisted him until his death in 1707.
		Out of the Mahrattas' doggedness arose the legendary figure of Shivagi, a symbol Hindu resistance and nationalism.
		Aurungzebe's three sons disputed over succession, and the Mughal empire crumbled, just as the Europeans were beginning to flex their own imperialistic muscles.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /~reema/IndianCulture/next1.htm (1013 words)

	Teaching South Asia
		The successors of Aurangzeb; revolt of the provinces; invasions of the Mahrattas; invasions of Nadir Shah and Ahmed Shah Abdali.
		Struggle for supreme power between Muhammadans and the Mahrattas; the Mahratta confederacy; extent of Mahratta dominion.
		The Mahrattas: their rise; Sivaji and his successors; Mahratta system of war, administration, and revenue; rise of the Peshwas; Baji Rao; his successors; origin of the chief existing Mahratta states.
	www.mssu.edu /projectsouthasia/tsa/VIN1/HistorySyllabus1916.htm (520 words)

	Colonial Leftovers
		Lake 'defeated' the Mahrattas led by a Frenchman called Monsieur Louis Bourquien.
		And on the strength of this victory they laid a claim to the Mughal stronghold at Delhi and the Scindia control of Meerut.
		(Actually the Mahrattas were sub-contracted the defense of Delhi (custodians) and actually collected the revenue from Meerut and its environs).
	meerutup.tripod.com /meerut2.htm (1411 words)

	Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay - Full Text Free Book (Part 14/16)
		The disputes with the Mahrattas must be accommodated.
		Mahrattas, again, the heir of Sevajee still kept the title of
		Mahratta shrank from a conflict with the mighty children of the
	www.fullbooks.com /Critical-and-Historical-Essays-Volume14.html (15278 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Mahrattas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Marathas MARATHAS [Marathas] or Mahrattas, Marathi-speaking people of W central India, known for their ability as warriors and their devotion to Hinduism.
		From their homeland in Maharashtra their chieftains rose to power in the 17th cent.
		The Marathas helped bring about the fall of the Mughal empire and
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/07891.html (153 words)

	Project Gutenberg Etext Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan
		Mahrattas lay gathered upon the Western Ghats like a cloud risen
		Movements of the Mahrattas — Invasion of Nadir Shah — Ahmad Khan
		Bhopal, where the Mahrattas wrung from him the cession of Malwa,
	worldebooklibrary.com /eBooks/Gutenberg/etext98/tfmeh10.htm (7788 words)

	Manuscripts Catalogue - Document Details
		Unknown Author's History of the Mahrattas: Begins: [Persian characters] Remarks: This MS.
		gives the history of the Mahrattas down to the battle of Pánipat.
		Part of MS Hunter 1-658 (See series level record)
	special.lib.gla.ac.uk /manuscripts/search/detaild.cfm?DID=34379 (159 words)

	sharpes_fortress
		It is 1803, and closing on the retreating Mahrattas in western India is Sir Arthur Wellesley's army and with it Ensign Richard Sharpe, newly commissioned but wishing he had stayed a sergeant.
		And waiting with the cornered Mahrattas is another enemy, the renegade Englishman William Dodd, who envisages a glorious triumph, for the Mahrattas have taken refuge in Gawilghur, India's greatest stronghold, perched high on cliffs above the Deccan Plain.
		He who rules in Gawighur, it is said, rules India, and Dodd knows th at the fortress is impregnable, but it is here that Sharpe must face his enemies
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/crayon/1171/sharpes_fortress.htm (429 words)

	The Maratha Light Infantry
		Regimental Battalions: 1st Battalion (old 103rd Mahratta LI)
		3rd Battalion (former 110th Mahrattas) --------> 2 Para (SF)
		Old 10th Battalion (former 114th Mahrattas) -------> Maratha LI Regiment Centre
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /LAND-FORCES/Army/Regiments/Maratha-LI.html (321 words)

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