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Maratha Confederacy


this occurs, on Delhi , it was the first person tried Marathas in an appropriate manner, the countries of the Mughal Empire. Moving northwest of the Deccan Plateau, which they seized lands in Gujarat in the 1720s, central India in the 1730s, the provinces to to the Bay of Bengal in the 1750s, and the south India So many Tanjore (Thanjavur) in what is now Tamil Nadu in the 1760s. They were defeated by the Afghans on the battlefield Panipat in 1761, to prevent any further extension of the north. The Marathas had nominal control of much of the land they conquered and not collecting taxes from many areas. The Sikhs, whose prosecution under the Mughals later they have evolved into a community of warriors, built a kingdom in the Punjab in the late 18th century.