The Maratha Confederacy rose from the western Deccan to challenge Mughal power across the subcontinent; at their peak they controlled more Indian territory than any power since the Mughals, before the British East India Company extinguished their confederacy in 1818.
The Maratha Confederacy was dissolved in 1818 CE after the Third Anglo-Maratha War, when the British East India Company defeated Peshwa Baji Rao II at the Battle of Khadki (November 1817) and the subsequent battles, with the Peshwa surrendering and going into exile, ending the confederacy's independence.
The atlas holds 6 border frames for Maratha Confederacy — the shape you scrub through changes in 1674 · 1749 · 1758 · 1761 · 1792 · 1808.
Definitive modern history of the Maratha Confederacy in the New Cambridge History of India series.
Broad regional history whose closing chapters cover the Maratha rise against the Mughals and the eighteenth-century reordering of the subcontinent (frame ends 1765).
Ranjit Desai's celebrated Marathi novel (Shriman Yogi) about Shivaji, founder of the Maratha state, is the definitive Marathi historical novel of the Maratha Confederacy's founding era; found catalogued under its English translation title.