is the name of the Maharashtra inhabitants. Freeing themselves from the Moghol rule, they established an empire during the 17th century and conquered the Baroda, Gwalior and Indore States to found a confederation. They fighted against British armies but without success, since they were finally defeated and submitted to the British Empire in 1818, after three successive wars within 40-year span

a member of a people of India living in Maharashtra

"The Marāthās" (Marathi: मराठा)is a collective term referring to an Indo Aryan group of Hindu warriors and peasants hailing mostly from the present-day state of Maharashtra, who created a substantial empire, covering a major part of India, in the late 17th and 18th centuries AD.